Al Smith

Who is Al Smith?

Al Smith is a British writer.

Plays for theatre include Chalk, which he wrote and directed for the Edinburgh University Theatre Company at the Bedlam Theatre, Enola for the Fringe, for which won the Three Weeks Editors Award, the Sunday Times Playwriting Award and was selected for NSDF, "The Astronaut Wives Club" for the National Youth Theatre's Soho Sextet at the Soho Theatre, Radio which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to the Soho Theatre, London and Brits off Broadway Festival at 59E59, New York City. For Radio, he won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for a second time. In 2008, he wrote "The Bird" at the Fringe which was staged alongside "The Bee" by Matt Hartley. In 2013, he staged a reading of "Harrogate" at the HighTide Festival in Suffolk. He has been a Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, London through which he won a Pearson Bursary for Radio, was selected for the New Voices 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic, and was on attachment to the Paines Plough / Channel 4 Future:Perfect Scheme. He has written several short plays for Paines Plough, Drywrite and the Miniaturists. He is currently under commission to the Gate Theatre.