Alexa Smith

Playwright

Alexa Smith

Playwright

Alexa Smith is a playwright whose work explores power, identity, history, and justice.

About

Plays by Alexa Smith

BIRTHRIGHT

Cast: 9 (with doubling), 13 roles

Genre: Drama/tragedy
Setting: New York, province of the English Crown, Eighteenth Century

Full-length play
In colonial New York, one mother will defy the world to protect her own.

Themes: race, law, power, women, commerce, identity, resistance

THINGS UNKNOWN

Cast: 8

Genre: Drama/tragedy
Setting: Midwest, early Twentieth Century

Full-length play
A shrewd man, determined to leave a legacy, must reckon with his own insecurity.

Themes: race, legacy, business, power, resistance

American National Red Cross photograph collection, Library of Congress.

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New Play Exchange

Playwrights' Center

New Play Exchange

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