The Part of Me
A pansexual bipolar woman breaks up with her girlfriend, embarking on a search for a new partner, a search made more difficult by her budding mental illness. This expressionist tale is a comic exploration of mental illness and sexuality through the lens of a woman who, while looking for the perfect partner, finds herself.
Cast: 5 W 1 M
Runtime: 1 hour 10 min
Production:
Madlab Theatre, Dir. By Laura Spires, 2020
Workshops and Readings:
Graeae Theatre, Dir. By Sonny Nwachukwu, 2021
Finalist:
Princess Grace Award, 2018
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Residency, 2018
Semi-Finalist/Long List:
Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, 2022
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019
Publication:
Smith and Kraus, Best Women’s Monologues, 2021
“The Part of Me” is a remarkably breezy play about bipolar disorder and despair.” – Columbus Dispatch
Paralysis
Joy’s coping with their break up about as poorly as one can. They locked themself in their room and are trying to get over their depression with bed rest. But when days turn to weeks, reality into nightmares, and they repeatedly wake up to sleep paralysis, Joy must face their depression head-on or lose their grip on the real world forever.
Cast: 2 W 1 Femme Presenting NB
Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes
Student Production:
Kansas University, Jayhawk Performance Lab Series, Dir. By Sofia Bilbao, 2025
Readings and Development:
Fresh Binder Productions, 2024
Transformation Theatre, Dir. By Cate Brewer, 2023
Finalist:
DGF Fellowship, 2022
Theatre Viscera 2023
“We were grateful for the chance to spend time with this compelling spiral story. You write so thoughtfully into and about grief-related disorientation, anxiety, sleep paralysis, rage, and the tasks of an exasperated caregiver. “
– Rejection Feedback.
Man Up
St. Catherine’s Water Polo team is ready to win a championship. They have all the pieces, the talent, everything they need. But when Titus, one of the players, discovers they have feelings for another player, and that they may be trans, Titus has to choose between what’s most important to them, winning a championship as part of the team, or being true to themself. Man Up is about how sometimes when we become most ourselves, we lose people and things we thought we loved.
Cast: 1 Agender person, 8 M
Runtime: 1 hour 40 min
Development and Readings:
Think at The Tank, Dir. By Kyle A Smith 2026
Fresh Binder Productions 2024
Finalist:
O’Neill Theatre Conference 2025
Breaking and Entering 2025
“A funny, heartbreaking, and nuanced play about young adult masculinity, sexuality, identity, and athletics. Kyle Smith pairs these dexterously written/orchestrated group scenes that juggle a huge amount of characters with Titus’ very compelling sweet, sad, and profound arc in which they begin to truly understand various aspects of their identity. The play doesn’t shy away from the many pitfalls/negative impacts of masculinity while treating each character with humanity.” – Nick Malakhow, NPX review
In Time
Billy has become unstuck in time. He travels his own timeline, endlessly searching for a way to save his wife. But the past resists change. Unstuck in Time is about how we process our lives, and the burning “what ifs” that follow us through the rest of our lives.
Cast: 2 M 2 W
Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes
Workshop Production:
No Frills Theatre Collective, Dir. By Kaila Galinat, 2020
Shortlist:
Wild Imaginings New Epiphanies, 2025
“An evocative piece that handles several difficult topics with tenderness, this play manages to be funny while not bending on the seriousness of the loss of memory.” Alyssa Haddad-Chin, NPX Review
On Love and Robots
Caryl is bringing her fiancee Anne home to meet her conservative, homophobic parents and tell them they’re getting married. When she arrives, she discovers that her parents have been replaced by robots sent from the future to kill her firstborn son. Caryl must find her real parents, escape the robots, and, maybe, if all goes well, find some acceptance along the way.
Cast: 2 Femme People, 1 W 1 M
Runtime: 1 hour 20 min
Reading and Workshops:
Transformation Theatre, Dir. By Carl Randolph, 2025
Outtabounds Productions, Dir. By Andrew Beck, 2023
Awards:
Honorable Mention, B Street New Comedies Festival, 2025
“The play makes the robots into surrogates for people whom we would fear and abhor and judge. By making them robots, we see them also as somewhat powerless, automatons, programmed to do what they do, and completely un self-aware. They are not able to self correct or understand us. A good metaphor for the people who actually persecute our queer children. As Buck and Tammy are robots, we can permit ourselves to feel understanding, and even some endearment to them, even empathy. And this sleight of hand makes us empathetic with those representing our enemies. Such is the capacity of art to get us to explore a point of view, that is normally taboo to us. And if we cannot find some empathy for those with whom we disagree, then how else can we make progress toward mutual understanding and tolerance if not love and agreement? ” – Lee Ordeman. Feedback from reading.
Fascists and the People Who Kill Them
Dunk is satisfied with his life in the Democratic Democracy of Libertaria. He prepares bodies to be dumped in mass graves, has a beautiful government-issued second wife, and two children who love contraband media. When Dunk’s father is killed for treason, Dunk needs to convince his government sentinel, Crom, that his family is just an average law-abiding family. His dysfunctional family has other plans.
Cast: 3 W 3 M
Runtime: 1 Hour 15 minutes
Readings and Development:
AAPG, Dir. By Lisa Gaylord, 2022
Sohaya Visions, Dir. By Raminder Kaur, 2022
Awards:
Runner Up, RAFTA, Sohaya Visions, 2021
“The tension and the laughs build steadily throughout this wonderfully terrifying dark comedy; set in a not-too-distant future that could still happen if we’re not careful, Kyle Smith’s dystopian ode to the fight against fascism is smart, engaging, frightening, and fall on the floor funny. And what’s not to love about that?” – Doug Devita NPX Review.
Agnes In American History,
Or The Roots are Rotten
Agnes is an autistic time traveler looking to travel to obscure American historical events for her doctoral thesis. William E. Riker’s announcement of running for office, Timothy Dexter’s “funeral”, and Giles Corey’s execution. Really though, she’s mostly interested in connecting with her women ancestors. As her ancestor’s situations get more dire, Agnes is forced to choose between standing up for the women of the past or preserving her future. Agnes in American History is about the obscure men who history remembers, and all of the “Elizabeths” who history has forgotten.
Cast: Min 4, Max 10
Runtime: 1 hour 15 min
Reading and Workshops:
UCNJ, Dir. By Eric Hafen 2026
Think at The Tank, Dir. By Kyle A Smith 2025
“The more things change, the more they stay the same. This play gives us three slices of obscure American history seen through the eyes of an Autistic academic named Agnes. Agnes stands up for her family’s women while uncovering how men’s cruelty has influenced American history, despite her own erasure becoming an inevitability. Kyle Smith’s characteristic gallows humor is well-employed, especially in the Giles Corey scene, but never loses sight of the women whose voices have been silenced.” – Dave Osmundsen, NPX review.
Blinded
In this adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Rex is detaining Hormazd for a perceived crime. As Rex digs into Hormazd’s past, he faces the consequences of his own actions, and attempts to flee the organization he’s acting under. When he gets to Columbus his past catches up with him as he asks the question we all wonder: is forgiveness even possible? Blinded is about the harsh realities we must face if we ever wish to move forward as a country.
Cast: 3 M 1 W
Runtime: 1 hour 45 min
Finalist:
Goldberg Play Prize, 2016
Semi-Finalist:
O’Neill Theatre Conference, 2021
“I was hanging on every single word of this piece. There’s something to be said about work that is seeking bewilderment and seeking to be challenged. Smith is clearly someone who reminds me of Jeremy O. Harris – a voice that isn’t trying to “prove a point” but using their gifts to create larger conversations of our world. Blinded was something that while at times was hard to sit with, I found myself wound up in the conflict in a way that caused me to reflect on my own actions in the world. It certainly is provoking but engaging.” – Theatre Rejection Feedback
WHITEOUT
In this modern retelling of The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, which was once a modern retelling of Menaechmi by Plautus, San Diego Kevin and Taylor are moving to New York from San Diego. They decide to stop in Bont, North Dakota, for the night, and get separated. Unfortunately, San Diego Kevin gets mistaken for Bont’s Kevin, a black man who looks literally nothing like San Diego Kevin. San Diego Kevin and Taylor must overcome a town full of friendly racists, and two horrifying neighborhood watch members, to find one another and get the fuck out of Bont.
Cast: 3 M 3 W
Runtime: 1 hour 40 min
Readings and Workshops:
Goldberg Theatre, Dir. By Jade King Carroll, 2017
Semi-Finalist:
Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, 2018
“Smith’s take on Comedy of Errors is a searing look at the exposed underbelly of the American heartland turned up to eleven. An unflinching dissection of predominantly white communities and the power of sheer ignorance in the face of indisputable truth. Controversial, infuriating, but most importantly painfully funny. Read this play if you dare.” – Alexander Perez NPX Review.
REVOLUTION
Revolution follows Klay, a young autistic man spending most of his time at Blessed Tavern in an afterlife reserved for people who have committed suicide. Like everyone here, he wants out. As unrest brews outside the tavern, Klay learns to appreciate what he has with the help of a new friend, as others go to extraordinary lengths to escape their afterlives.
Cast: 3 M 2 W
Runtime: 1 hour 30 min
Readings and Workshops:
Neurodivergent New Play Series, Dir. By Dave Osmundsen, 2025
“REVOLUTION follows five characters in the afterlife as they fall in love with each other, reflect on the lives they left, and drink cheap alcohol. Through creative, clever dialogue and sharp, specific characterizations, REVOLUTION is a powerful but accessible play about the lengths we go to in order to enact change in an apathetic world. I was proud to direct a reading of it this past spring.” – Dave Osmundsen, NPX feedback.
The Correctable
Gird your loins! In this parody of The Crucible, John seeks redemption from his wife Liz for sleeping with a teenager, Anna. It’s too bad that the whole town is engrossed in a witch hunt to root out their own “witch hunt” perpetrated by teachers preaching woke principles. John must navigate a shed-hungry priest, the American judicial system, and a way overworked understudy to get the forgiveness that, quite frankly, he doesn’t deserve.
Cast: 3 M 3 W A whole lotta mannequins
Runtime: 1 hour 30 min
Semi-Finalist:
Baltic Writing Residency, 2018
“The Correctable is a hilarious, absurd take on The Crucible, blending sharp wit with biting commentary on modern issues like shame, gender dynamics, and societal hysteria. John’s desperate attempt at redemption is both laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly thought-provoking. A must-read!” – Danielle Wirsansky, NPX review