Alexa Smith
Playwright
Alexa Smith
Playwright
Alexa Smith is a playwright whose work explores power, identity, history, and justice.
Cast: 9 (with doubling)
Genre: Drama/tragedy
Setting: New York, province of the English Crown, Eighteenth Century
Full-length play
A fiercely intelligent woman takes the most powerful man in colonial New York to court, challenging a system that has defined the nation and confronting the legal, emotional, and historical forces shaping her life and that of her last living relative.
Themes: race, law, power, women, commerce, identity, resistance