DEBORAH SALEM SMITH is Trinity Repertory Company’s playwright-in-residence. Her plays include The Getaway Driver and Someone Will Remember Us (both co-written with Charlie Thurston), Anna K., Faithful Cheaters, Love Alone, Some Things Are Private, and Boots on the Ground (co-created with Laura Kepley). She was also a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow. She has received multiple commissions, and has had writing developed at Fiasco Theater, Trinity Rep, Playmakers Repertory Company, and the Huntington Theatre Company. Her work has been published by Dramatists Play Service.

Smith grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and graduated cum laude from Princeton University where she won the Francis LeMoyne Page Visual Arts Award and the Ward Poetry Prize. She went on to get her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Michigan where her writing was recognized with a Major Hopwood Award, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship in Poetry, and a Colby Fellowship in Creative Writing. She also had poems published in the Berkeley Poetry Review…learn more