Pigeon
Pigeon
Tommy Smith
Set in depression-era New York City and Stalinist Russia, “Pigeon” follows the exploits of Leon Theremin, Soviet inventor and father of electronic music. When Theremin marries a whip-smart black prima ballerina, their expatriate romance shocks society and attracts the looming shadow of foreign terror.
Available
2012
978-0-8222-2588-1
Play
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Smith’s plays – including the critically-acclaimed “White Hot”, “Firemen”, “PTSD”, and “The Wife” – have been performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Labyrinth Theatre Company, PS 122, The Flea Theatre, IRT, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Theatre of NOTE (LA), Echo Theatre Company, West of Lenin, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Coho (Portland OR), Washington Ensemble Theatre and many others.
Smith also created and co-wrote “Transition”, “Disinformation”, “Radioplay” and “Dutch A/V” – four multimedia stage shows which played at The Public Theatre (NYC), The Warhol Museum, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Ars Nova (NYC) and On The Boards (Seattle).
Publications include “Pigeon” (Dramatists Play Service), “White Hot” (New York Theatre Review), “Lotus Eaters” (Steele Spring), “Streak” (Vintage).
Awards: The Playwrights of New York Fellowship, Sloan Foundation Grant, Page 73 Fellowship, Creative Capital, MAP Fund, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle prize. Graduate of the writing program at The Juilliard School.