EST/Sloan Project presents a Reading of
Smart
written by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton
directed by Matt Dickson*
featuring Christine Farrell*, Layla Khoshnoudi, & Tiffany Villarin
When called to fix a virtual home assistant, a tech support worker becomes infatuated with her client. Smart examines the real life implications of our virtual interactions.
Fran Acuña-Almiron, Stage Manager
This virtual reading will be held on the Zoom platform. You can make sure you have the latest version downloaded here.
* indicates EST Member Artist
Mary Elizabeth Hamilton was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at The Juilliard School and a Jerome New York Fellow at The Lark. She has participated in The O’Neill Theater Conference, EST/Youngblood, I-73, New Georges’ The Jam, and Play Penn. Mary holds her MFA in playwriting from The University of Iowa. Her play 16 Winters won the American Shakespeare Center’s New Contemporaries Award. She has developed work with Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, Studio Theater, EST, and Page 73. She was a Story Editor on the television show "Why Women Kill" and is developing a tv pilot with AMC. Mary is a resident playwright with New Dramatist and lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.
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Black Girls Do STEM is a diversifying innovation, empowering Black girls to achieve equitable STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) representation. By creating a culturally unique learning space, we give room for cognitive and mental resilience. This lends to development of a STEM mindset and belief in their STEM capability, while placing positive role models who look like them right in their path. Through our core values of scholarship, training, empowerment (equity), and mentorship, we trigger curiosity in the minds of Black girls building confidence, skills, and the future STEM workforce. Please visit their website to learn more and support them today.
Smart is part of this season's First Light Festival, learn more about the festival and other plays like this here.
We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists, and SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the artists to appear on this program.