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
Long List, Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, 2022
Excerpt read, Graeae Theatre, 2021
Publication Smith and Kraus, Best Women’s Monologues, 2021
Past Production, Madlab Theatre, 2020
Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019
Finalist, Princess Grace Award, 2018
“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
Production, Kansas University, 2025
Developed with Fresh Binder, 2024
Reading, Transformation Theatre, 2023
Finalist, DGF Fellowship, 2022
“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.
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, 2020
“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
Blinded
Rex is holding Hormazd captive. As they probe deeper into why their paths have crossed, Rex is forced to face new truths about himself, and his life will change irrevocably.
Cast: 3 M 1 W
Runtime: 1 hour 45 min
Semi-Finalist, NYClassics New Visions, 2021
Semi-Finalist, O’Neill Theatre Conference, 2021
Finalist, Goldberg Play Prize, 2016
“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
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
Reading, AAPG, 2022
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.
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, Outtabounds Productions, 2023
“I just finished reading On Love and Robots. I adored every single second of it. It is so so so good. ” – Theatre 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
Developed with: Fresh Binder Productions 2024
“Changing rooms are a minefield of confused sexuality, body insecurity, and emotional vulnerability. Playwright Kyle Smith ratchets this milieu up by centering the painful journey of a trans/agender character whose painful coming out results in his relationship with his water polo teammates disintegrating as their camaraderie grows over the course of a contentious season. The audience viscerally feels Titus’ pain and isolation as they come into their own, and anger at the team’s treatment of them. A fantastic and powerful play about what we lose to become our true authentic selves.” – Dave Osmundsen, 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
Developed with: T.H.I.N.K. at the Tank 2024
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
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
Reading Neurodivergent New Play Series, 2025
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
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