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Adjunct Faculty

Phillip Smith

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Phillip Smith
Verse and Heightened Language - BFA Acting
Email: psmith5@pace.edu

Phillip Christian Smith is a 2022 Fire This Time Festival Playwright, a 2022 Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee, 2021 O’Neill (NPC) Finalist, 2020-21 Playwrights Realm Fellow, Lambda Literary Fellow, Winter Playwrights Retreat, two-time Blue Ink Playwriting Award Semi-Finalist, Finalist for The Dramatists Guild Fellowship and New Dramatists, Finalist and Semi-finalist PlayPenn, Two time Semi-finalist for The O’Neill (NPC), and runner- up in The Theatre of Risk Modern Tragedy writing competition for his play The Chechens, fourth production at Pace University directed by the playwright fall 2022. He has been a semi-finalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries (ASC), semifinalist for Barrington Stage’s Burman New Play Award, finalist for Trustus, former Playwright in Residence Exquisite Corpse and founding member of The Playwriting Collective. Current Co-Literary Director of Exquisite Corpse Company. His work has been supported by Quicksilver, Bennington College, Primary Stages (Cherry Lane) ESPA, Fresh Ground Pepper, and the 53rd Street New York Public Library. MFA Yale School of Drama, BFA University of New Mexico. MFA Hunter ’23. Phillip teaches acting at Pace University and is currently working on a Roe Green Commission with The Cleveland Playhouse. Phillip has acted at numerous theatres around the country including, The Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Hartford Stage, Milwaukee Rep, and The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park.