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Louise Smith
Louise is an actor, writer, director and teacher, whose solo work has been presented nationally and internationally. She has collaborated and appeared in works by Ping Chong since 1980; has been a member of Otrabanda Company since 1977; has appeared in New York in works by Julie Taymor, Anne Bogart, Liz Swados, Meredith Monk, and The Talking Band. Her regional Theatre credits include Milwaukee Rep, Portland Stage, Seattle Group Theatre, Trinity Rep, and Manhattan Theatre Club. She received a 1990 Bessie Award for her work in Ping Chong’s Brightness, and grants for her own work from NYSCA, Franklin Furnace, and Art Matters. She was a 1992 Jerome Fellow playwright-in-residence at the Minneapolis Playwright’s Center and is a 1995 recipient of a NEA collaborative artists fellowship with Ping Chong. She has taught in workshops and residencies at Lafayette, Carleton, Montclair State College, and NYU Experimental Theatre Wing. Louise has written a number of critically acclaimed works for YSKP, including Gaston Boudreaux, Endurance, and Paradise Paradox. Her latest work, Interfacing Joan, premiered at La Mama, New York City, in 1996, and toured to Minneapolis, Boston, and Internacional Festival de Teatro in El Salvador.