Pete Wolf Smith

Playwright

229 E. 79th St., Apt 6A
New York, NY 10021-0866
(917) 549-8845
(212) 744-6636
petewolfsmith@earthlink.net

Pete Wolf Smith’s play, The Veil, was performed at the Makor Center, NYC, where he was a 2004-2005 Artist-in-Residence. Prior to that, Are You There, My Son? was given a staged reading at Ansche Chesed, NYC, and Half a Sandwich was also produced at Makor as part of the Tales of the New Yorkim Festival. His plays, Jake’s Mind, The Waves, and Throw it Hard, have been produced at House of Candles, NYC, and staged readings of Larusso’s New Career and A Piece of Earth were performed at the Knitting Factory, NYC. Acting credits include What the Butler Saw, The Seagull, The Balcony, Romeo and Juliet, and Endgame, all with Independent Theatre Company, NYC. His poems, fiction and non-fiction have appeared and are forthcoming in numerous literary magazines.

Plays

Are You There, My Son?

A dark, King Arthur-like tale based on the rise of the biblical King David, ARE YOU THERE, MY SON? is loosely based on the First Book of Samuel. Samuel, Saul, David, and Jonathan vie for power in a tale of intrigue and deception.

8 men, 2 women. Multiple locations, but a bare stage or single, non-realistic set are all that's required.

A Piece of Earth

Takes place in New York and Israel, and moves back and forth in time between the summer of 1997 and the biblical past. A divorced Jewish man travels to Israel and contemplates the wrong turns in his life, while Abraham, Sarah, Rebecca, Esau, and Ishmael appear and tell their own stories.

Multiple characters, male and female, played by 6 actors. Bare stage or "concert-style."

Larusso's New Career

A little graft doesn't make you a bad person. Phillip Larusso, a municipal bureaucrat, gets in over his head when he helps out a "connected" pal from the old neighborhood.

6 men, 2 women. Multiple interior sets.

The Veil

(one act)
A comedy which imagines the last conversation between the biblical prophet, Moses, and his brother, Aaron, the High Priest, on the morning of Aaron's death. Old scores get settled, longstanding grudges are brought to the surface, a tenuous reconciliation is reached, and Aaron comes up with an entirely new way to tell the story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah.

2 men. One set, interior.

Here

(one act)
A Stoppard-like dark comedy in which Eliezer and Shimon, two rabbis of the Talmudic era, attempt to put their world back together after the destruction of the Second Temple.

2 men. One set, exterior.

Worlds within Worlds

(one act)
An American-born-and-bred suicide bomber prepares for his mission, watched closely by his handler. The twist? He's Jewish.

2 men. One set, interior.

Nobody Knows Anything

(one act)
In a post-9/11 world, Jacob, an observant Jewish man, and Rachel, a young, zealous Jew for Jesus, meet by chance and debate the morality of holding on to Jewish tradition. Both have secrets which come to light in the course of their encounter.

One woman, one man. One set, interior.