MARISA SMITH
playwright.
plays
MAD LOVE (2M, 2W)
Productions:
Northern Stage – White River Junction, VT – January 27 - February 13, 2016;
New Jersey Repertory Company – Long Branch, NJ – October 20 - November 20, 2016
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Synopsis: Sloane Hudson, a rich, beautiful recent Ivy League graduate and product of the campus hook up culture and frat basement pong tournaments, doesn't believe in love or marriage. She does believe in babies and wants one soon so her tummy can bounce back and she can still wear a bikini. The problem is she needs a sperm donor who passes muster. Enter Brandon, who's got the right stats but the wrong attitude. Brandon has enough on his plate already and lives with brother Doug, the infamous "De-Fenestrator" who just fell in love with Katerina, the hooker from the Ukraine. Cabbage soup, a rare baseball card and a lizard named Pogo all play a part in this romantic comedy for cynical times.
SAVING KITTY (2M, 2W)
Productions:
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater – Wellfleet, MA – July 15 - July 28, 2012;
New Jersey Repertory Company – Long Branch, NJ – July 25 - August 25, 2013;
Central Square Theater – Cambridge, MA – July 9 - August 2, 2015
The Studio Players – Naples, FL – March 10 - 26, 2023
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​From The New York Times: "...this comedy about a whimsical mother whose caprices are less than fabulous...reduced the audience to howls of laughter."
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Synopsis: The battle lines are drawn and it’s all-out war when beautiful, fifty-something Kate Hartley, a wealthy, liberal, Manhattan atheist, launches a diabolical campaign to break up the engagement of her daughter Kitty to hunky Evangelical Christian Paul. Kate, divinely dizzy, supremely charming and highly intelligent, uses all her wiles to scuttle the relationship, alternating between saboteur and seductress.
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SEX + OTHER DISTURBANCES
(2M, 3W)
Productions:
Portland Stage – Portland, ME – May 1 - May 20, 2018
M&D Playhouse – North Conway, NH – June 2 - 12, 2022​
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Synopsis: It’s the fall of 2018 and a storm with no end is pummeling Manhattan and so are a variety of extreme midlife crises for the characters in Sex and other Disturbances. When your husband is too busy buying cabins in Newfoundland for the apocalypse, what’s the harm in having a little affair? Sarah, a former actress and now stay-at-home Mom and woman on the verge, finds out the hard way in this fast-paced comedy about friendship, love, sex, and other disturbances.
VENUS RISING (1M, 3W)
Productions:
Northern Stage – White River Junction, Vermont – January 30 - February 17, 2019
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Synopsis: When Julie, married mother of three, unexpectedly leaves her husband and moves in with her mother Cora, she’s shocked at what she finds in her childhood home. Insults, galoshes, and English muffins fly as the women fight for control of Cora’s life and Julie comes to grips with her own mid-life crisis.
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THE NAKED LIBRARIAN
(1M, 3W)
Productions:
Northern Stage – White River Junction, Vermont – February 12 - February 29, 2020
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Synopsis: A cycle of monologues that weave a tale of love, regret, family, and how things change (or don’t) from generation to generation. When memory is so strong, how can we make sure our best days are ahead of us?