Kyle A. Smith’s plays include The Part of Me (Excerpt Read at Graeae Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Princess Grace Finalist, Theatre503 International Playwriting Award Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist), Paralysis (DGF Fellowship Finalist, reading at Transformation Theatre), On Love and Robots (reading at Outtabounds) Unstuck in Time (No Frills Theater), Whiteout (Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Semi-Finalist), Blinded (O’Neill Semi-finalist, Goldberg Prize Finalist, NYClassics Semifinalist), Fascists and the People Who Kill Them (Sohaya Vision’s RAFTA Runner Up, Reading at AAPG), Miss Conduct (1st place New Thrills Festival), Miss Direction (Adelphi University, Queen’s Theater), Miss Orientation (Adelphi University), Frisky (Emerging Artist’s Theatre, Equity Library Theatre), and Don (Equity Library Theatre, Secret Theatre) among others. They have been published by Smith and Kraus, Flowersong Press, and Top Secret Books. They have been named an artist to watch by Theatre Viscera.
Their screenplays include Meg and the Wonderous World of Bible Drill (Semifinalist Fresh Voices Film Festival, Semifinalist Screencraft, QuarterFinalist Atlanta Film Festival), Higher Education (1st place festival-wide Chicago Genre Screenplay Competition, 1st place for comedy at Chicago Genre Screenplay Competition, 1st place for comedy Las Vegas Screenplay Contest), A More Perfect Union (Winner, Best Historical Screenplay, iHolly Film Festival, 2nd place for historical screenplay at Las Vegas Screenplay Contest), Hole Set (1st place Film Crash, Finalist FISA awards), and Probert Bound (Winner Best Short Screenplay Laugh or Die Comedy Festival).
Her pilot, The Blackout Menace, was a semifinalist for the Austin Film Festival and won the award for Best Half-Hour Comedy Original Pilot at The Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition, was a finalist at the TVWriter People’s Pilot contest, The New York Screenplay Festival, The Los Angeles Screenplay Festival, and the Austin Revolution Film Festival.
Kyle is Agender, Bisexual, neurodivergent, and has Bipolar, Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders. He is an advocate for both the LGBTQ+ and mentally ill communities. MFA: NYU, DDW.
A selection of their plays can be found on The New Play Exchange: