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EDUCATION:
M.A. English Literature, emphasis in Drama, Boston University, 2002
M.F.A. Creative Writing, emphasis in Poetry, University of Michigan, 1999
A.B. Art and Archaeology, graduated cum laude, Princeton University, 1996
Selected to write an additional thesis in poetry
PUBLICATIONS:
"A Playwright's Perspective: Deborah Salem Smith interviews writer Pamela Gien." The Trinity Square Magazine Spring 2010.
"A Playwright's Perspective: Deborah Salem Smith interviews writer Steven Dietz." The Trinity Square Magazine Fall 2009.
"A Playwright's Perspective: Deborah Salem Smith interviews writer Laura Schellhardt." The Trinity Square Magazine Spring 2009.
"A Playwright's Perspective: Deborah Salem Smith interviews set designer James Schuette." The Trinity Square Magazine Holiday 2008.
"A Playwright's Perspective: Deborah Salem Smith interviews writer Adam Bock." The Trinity Square Magazine Winter 2008.
"A Playwright's Perspective: Antigone Today." The Trinity Square Magazine Fall 2008.
"Behind Closed Doors." The Trinity Square Magazine Fall 2007.
"Carol in a Minor Key: Deborah Salem Smith interviews director Amy Morton." The Trinity Square Magazine Winter 2006.
"A Preface: The Diminishment of Infinity" and "Material Origin of Ethics." Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 33 2001. (Both poems published as D. Salem Smith.)
"A Teacher's Viewpoint." ABC News (Internet) January 1997.
PUBLIC TALKS:
Panelist at "The Playwright's Process," with writers Sarah Ruhl and Charlotte Meehan, Trinity Repertory Company, 2007
Leisure Learning Lecture Series, East Greenwich, RI, 2007
Moderator for post-show discussions for Trinity Repertory Company, 2006-2007
Moderator for an interview with painter Jill Moser, University of Rhode Island, 2006
Panelist at "The Artist as Citizen," Boston Theater Conference, 2006
Poetry reading for The Literary Festival Series, San Rafael, CA, 2000
Poetry reading for The Mark Webster Reading Series, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998
Poetry reading for The Arts Council's Reading Series, Princeton, NJ, 1996
Poetry reading for The Reading Series, Princeton, NJ, 1996
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
Playwright-in-Residence, 2007-ongoing
Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, Rhode Island
Adjunct Faculty, 2009-ongoing
Brown University/ Trinity Rep Consortium
Created and taught Playwriting for first year M.F.A. students in Acting and Directing
Taught Core Playwriting for second and third year M.F.A. students in Acting
Producer, 2010-ongoing
Brown University/ Trinity Rep Consortium
First Look Play Festival
Dramaturg, 2010-2011
Trinity Repertory Company
The Completely Fictional—Utterly True—Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe
by Stephen Thorne, directed by Curt Columbus
Script Reader, 2010
WordBRIDGE
Reviewed and critiqued play submissions for the Playwrights Laboratory
National Judge, 2009
University of Michigan
Hopwood Prize in Playwriting (for undergraduate and graduate students)
Dramaturg, 2009
Trinity Repertory Company
The Secret Rapture by David Hare, directed by Curt Columbus
Guest Artist, 2007-2009
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities' Speaker's Bureau
Topic: Theater and the State of Our State During the War in Iraq
Guest Artist, 2006
Brown University/ Trinity Rep Consortium
Led a workshop with director Laura Kepley for M.F.A. students in Acting and Directing
Adjunct Faculty, 2005-2006
Rhode Island College
Created and taught Creative Writing, a multimedia curriculum including drama, fiction, and poetry
Designed and taught honors and regular sections of College Writing, an interdisciplinary study of voice focused on the personal, argumentative, and analytical essay forms
Member of Composition Committee
Script Reader, 2005
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Reviewed and critiqued play submissions for the National Playwrights Conference
O'Neill Critics Institute, 2005
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Selected for the critical training program which runs concurrently with new play development at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference
Reader's Panel Member, 2004-2005
The Abbey Theatre, Ireland's National Theatre
Reviewed and critiqued play submissions
Visiting Academic, 2004-2005
Trinity College, School of Drama at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Adjunct Faculty, 2002-2004
Rhode Island School of Design
Created and taught Introduction to Playwriting; also Literature and Composition, a multimedia curriculum on essay forms
Designed and taught two upper level theater courses: Intimacy in Motion, in which students created performance art; also Revision and Revolt, a study of structure in political 20th Century Drama
Advisor for original play written and produced by the Asian Cultural Association
Committee Member and Drama Instructor for the Summer Program in English Language Studies for incoming students who were non-native speakers of English
Rhode Island College
Created and taught Western Literature: The Rational and Non-Rational, an interdisciplinary study of religious themes, with an emphasis on dramatic literature
Designed and taught honors and regular sections of College Writing
Script Reader, 2003-2004
Perishable Theater
Reviewed and critiqued play submissions for the International Women's Playwriting Festival
Script Reader, 2002-2004
Trinity Repertory Company
Reviewed and critiqued play submissions for the literary department
Adjunct Faculty, 2002-2003
Providence College
Created and taught three sections of Expository Writing, an interdisciplinary introduction to college writing techniques
Adjunct Faculty, 2000-2001
Villanova University
Designed and taught two sections per semester of The Literary Experience: Contemporary Poetry, in which students produced creative and analytical writing
St. Joseph's University
Created and taught The Craft of Language, a multimedia study of genre; also Texts and Contexts, a study of dramatic and nondramatic literature from five historical periods
Teacher, 1999-2000
Marin Academy, San Rafael, California
Among other responsibilities, designed and taught Creative Writing Workshop; Understanding Literary Genres; also 20th Century American Novel
Reader/Editing Intern, 1997-1999
Michigan Quarterly Review
Reviewed and critiqued poetry submissions
Lecturer, also Graduate Student Instructor, 1997-1999
University of Michigan
Created and taught Creative Writing, and College Writing; Course Assistant for Modern Poetry, and Women and Modernism
Student Evaluations available upon request: Consistently received very high scores on student evaluations from all schools.
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