Tom Smith

Who is Tom Smith?

Tom Smith is an American playwright, theatre director, and professor of theatre arts. Originally trained as an improvisational comedian, Smith founded Walla Walla TheatreSports in 1988.

Smith's published plays include Drinking Habits, The Odyssey, The Pathmaker, Dangerous, Gray, and Marguerita's Secret Diary in addition to edited versions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love's Labours Lost. Additionally, he has many plays published by YouthPLAYS, including Johnny and Sally Ann: the true-life tall-tales of Johnny Appleseed and Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, which ran for 2 years with LA's traveling company Enrichment Works; A Christmas Carol, ESL, The Wild and Wacky Rhyming Stories of Miss Henrietta Humpledowning and What Comes Around.... Unpublished plays receiving productions include Aunt Raini, which received a reading at Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton and its world premiere at No Strings Theatre Company in Las Cruces, NM; comedic abridgements of the complete history of Las Cruces, NM; and various 10-minute plays.