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Rob Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Catawba College and this spring he completed his Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University. Recently Rob co-adapted Carlo Goldino’s The Servant of Two Masters, which will tour Pittsburgh, PA as a Commedia Dell’Arte production presented by Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, under the direction of Mark Bell. His most recent play, Tightrope, received a student workshop at the 2008 Winter New Play Festival at Carnegie Mellon University.

His one-act plays “Trash” and “Fine” have received awards from the American College Theatre Festival, American Theatre Co-Op, Theatre Publicus. In 2003 Rob was named a National Team Fellow in Playwriting by the Kennedy Center. Rob’s newest one-act play “Dust” won the 2008 American College Theatre Festival Region II One-Act Play Competition. “Dust” will have a reading at the Kennedy Center in April and is a national finalist for the 2008 John Cauble Short Play Award. Before returning to school, he was a member of the Hypothetical Seven, one of Kansas City’s oldest Improv and Sketch Comedy Troupes.

Other works include: Double Lub Dub (two readings 2006, 2007), “HAVETO-DONTWANNA” (student production 2007), “Whistling in the Dark” (student production 2005), “Mrs. Adventure” (student production 2005), “Flop Flip (2006), Sycamore (2005), “Minor Song” (2005), “The Packer” (2004) For the screen, Rob wrote Match, for the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Competition (2007) and produced and directed “The Closed Theatre” a mocumentary about the world’s greatest avant-garde theatre company.

Twice he was the recipient of the Shubert Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University (2006-2007, 2007-2008). Rob is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.

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