SEXTET by Tommy Smith
SEXTET by Tommy Smith
Directed by Kip Fagan
With Noel Allain, Reed Birney, Zach Booth, David Brooks, Louis Cancelmi, Mary Jane Gibson, Erica Newhouse, Caitlin McDonough-Thayer, Elliot Villar. Stage Directions: Mike Piazza.
Where: Primary Stages
Sextet is a choral play about the tragic love lives of composers Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg and Gesualdo.
Tommy Smith’s plays include The Wife (Access Gallery; May Adrales, director), White Hot (produced at Here Arts Center; May Adrales, director), PTSD (produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Billy Carden, director), The Break-Up (produced at Flea Theater; Sherri Kronfeld, director), Beautiful Night (commissioned by E.S.T.; Evan Cabnet, director), Air Conditioning (Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Steve Cosson, director), among others. His work has also appeared at PS 122, The Ontological Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Yale Cabaret, The Huntington Theatre; internationally, he has been produced in Prague, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Montreal and Athens. He is the 2010-11 PONY fellow at The Lark, a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, a two-time winner of the MAP Fund Award, a recipient of the E.S.T. Sloan Grant, a winner of the Page73 Productions Playwriting Fellowship and a recipient of the Creative Capital Award. Publications include WHITE HOT in the 2008 New York Theatre Review and STREAK in “Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays”, printed by Vintage. He is a graduate of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School.
Kip Fagan recently directed Jack’s Precious Moment by Sam Hunter at 59e59, That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play by Sheila Callaghan at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley for the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Young Left by Greg Keller at Cherry Lane Theatre, and Caravan Man, a musical about the life of the Prophet Muhammad by Tommy Smith and Gabriel Kahane, at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Kip has developed new plays with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Ars Nova, Young Playwrights Festival, The Lark, Dixon Place, Hartford Stage, Playwrights Center (Minneapolis), and Bay Area Playwrights Festival (San Francisco). He was a 2003-2004 NEA/TCG directing fellow and was the 2007 Bill Foeller directing fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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