Leodis Smith

Leodis Smith is a citizen of the world although his moving has only been done in one country. He was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Oklahoma, Michigan, Colorado, and Texas. He fell in love with writing as a kid because it was an alternative to his more destructive tendencies. He would then use this same tendency to avoid doing most of his homework.

He got into writing plays in high school and then would proceed to begin to attempt seriously writing plays in his twenties while taking playwriting classes. He has written seven short plays which are, A Quick Trip to Happiness; about a young person contemplating suicide as they wait for the bus, Dinner With Tron: A play done for the Mile High 24 festival from Forgotten Scenes From Movies, If the Truth Be told; A play about a man who hires a genie who steals his life with every lie he tells, Blink: A play about the fleeting nature of life written with existential dread, Against the Grain; a play about a corrupt politician for a reading series on abuses of power, Magic Pixie Dream Girl; A play about a woman trying to have a normal day at a coffee shop without dealing with this one guy who keeps trying to get in a relationship with her, and Tray’s Broadcast a play written in response to the events of the worst Memorial Day Weekend ever so far which will be available with the Radio Plays. He is excited to see his eighth play The Substitue: a play he wrote and presented for an acting workshop the week Trump brought his Black friend into his impeachment trial, go up with Stand By For Places.

In addition to writing and acting in plays, he volunteers with the organization Brooklyn 4 Black Lives which organizes trash pick ups, food, toy, and clothing drives as he always wants to ensure that he is doing his best to practice what he preaches. He also likes to walk for four hours a night to take in the energy of the night when he believes some of the most clear thinking can take place, making noise on the piano keyboard he bought in 2018, read disturbing current events and historical books, watch way too many tv shows and plays, blare music, and pretend he’s more comical than he is on an average day.

He joined the Dramatist Guild in 2020 of all years, thus making the events of that year part of his comic book origin story. As far as what he is trying to do going forward, he is working on trying to do something with his full length V From Vitality, a play truly born from the long term effects of a misery inducing system. He would like to thank everyone involved in this production, his mom, dad, and step mom who all had a hand in making this crazy man, and lastly, his girlfriend with whom he shares a cat.