Deborah Salem Smith is Trinity Rep’s playwright-in-residence. Her plays include Radical (co-written with Charlie Thurston), Anna K., Faithful Cheaters, Love Alone, Some Things Are Private, and Boots on the Ground (co-created with Laura Kepley). She has been awarded an Emerging American Artist Fulbright, a National Mellon Fellowship, an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention; as well as finalist for the National Lambda Literary Award in Drama and for the IRNE Award for Best New Play. Smith has been a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, a MacDowell Colony Resident, and a recipient of the Bray Visiting Scholar/Creative Artist Fellowship. She has received many commissions, and developed plays at Fiasco Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, and Playmakers Repertory Company. She attended Princeton University and the University of Michigan. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service.