2013 Productions/Honors
"How to Succeed in Romance without Really Connecting" will be presented by The Mirror Theatre in LA as part of their 'Til Tech Do Us Part festival from June 14-30, 2013.
"The Sum of Your Experience" will be presented by Ticket 2 Eternity Productions at Stage Left Studio in NY on May 12.
"And What A Damn Fine Morning It Is" will be presented by Madlab as a part of their Theatre Roulette from May 9-25 in Columbus, OH.
"The Sum of Your Experience" will be presented by Raconteur Theatre Company as a part of their Flex Play Festival from May 3-18 in Columbus OH.
"And What A Damn Fine Morning It Is" was selected for Longwood University's 5th Annual 0-60 Ten-Minute Play Festival, and was performed April 25-28. 
Mind the Gap Theatre included Trace's short plays in their presentation for World Theatre Day on March 27 at Paul Michael's The Network in NYC.
"The Sum of Your Experience" advanced to the Gala Finals of the Short + Sweet play festival in Sydney, Australia and was performed at the Seymore Centre on March 22 & 23.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented at The 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts at the Orlando Airport Marriott on Mar 22.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented in Bengaluru, India as a part of the Short+Sweet festival on Feb 9 & 10.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by The Artistic Home in Chicago in the 12th Annual Cut to the Chase Festival from Feb 8-23.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was performed at the King Street Theatre in Week 4 of the Short + Sweet play festival in Sydney, Australia from Jan 30-Feb 3.
"Back Issues" is scheduled to be broadcast by Spokane Radio Theatre sometime in 2013.

2012 Productions/Honors

 

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"The Sum of Your Experience" was performed at Chapel off Chapel as a part of the Short + Sweet
play festival in Melbourne, Australia on Nov 28 - Dec 1.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was performed at Colby Sawyer College as a part of their S.N.A.F.U. play festival in New London, New Hampshire Nov 1 - 3.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" will be given an encore performance by Over Our Head Players at the Sixth Street Theatre in Racine, WI, Oct 6.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" will be presented by the Eden Prairie Players in their 2012 Collection of One-Acts from September 21 - October 7.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by Lebanon (PA)  Community Theatreas a part of Blame It On The... August 23-26.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was performed at The Loft Theatre as a part of the Short + Sweet play festival in Brisbane, Austrailia on August 18th.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" was presented by Artists' Exchange in Cranston, RI, August 16-26.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was a part of the Echo 10 Play Festival at The Echo Theatre in Provo, Utah Aug 16-18.
"The Last Firefly" was presented by Insignificant Theatre at their August Speakeasy in London.

 

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"COINTELPRO Visits the Church Basement Ladies" was selected for the 2012 edition of Subversive Shorts playing June 21-July 15 at the Subversive Theatre Collective in Buffalo, NY.
"The Last Firefly" was selected as one of three monologues for the June Play of the Month on NYCPlaywrights.  It will be recorded and available on YouTube and the NYCPlaywrights website.

 

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"COINTELPRO Visits the Church Basement Ladies" was presented by Love Creek Productions' Brief Acts Company  June 15-17, 2012 in NYC.
"The Interview" was selected for Gi60 2012: Live U.S. Edition, presented at Brooklyn College, June 8 & 9, 2012.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" was selected to be a part of Colonial Quickies at The Colonial Playhouse outside of Philadelphia, June 8-23.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was a part of "A Pie, A Pint, and a Play: A New Work Cabaret" at The Majestic Theatre in Corvallis, Oregon on June 7-16.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by Newburgh Free Academy as part of their 2nd Annual New Works Festival June 5 & 6, 2012.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was presented as a radio play by Spokane Radio Theatre on May 13, 2012. 
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by the New World Theatre Club in the Luxembourg 2012 Ten Minute Play Festival in Mamer, Luxembourg from May 10-12, 2012.
"Back Issues" was presented by Roxbury Repertory Theater at Roxbury Community College as part of their 2012 production of 6 Playwrights In Search of a Stage on April 27.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by Flathead Valley Community College as part of their 2012 Ten Minute Play Festival on April 27 & 28 and May 4 & 5.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" was recorded as a radio play by Askew Theatre Company and will available for streaming after April 9th.
"An Unfamiliar Waltz" was included in The 16th Annual One-Act Festival - "Hot from the Oven - Fresh on Delivery" produced by The Fine Arts Association in Willoughby, OH, April 20 - May 5, 2012.
"Everybody's a Critic" was given a reading by BrooklynONE Theatre + Film at LoneStar Bar & Grill in Brooklyn on April 5th, 2012.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was selected for Longwood University's 4th Annual 0-60 Ten-Minute Play Festival, performing March 29-April 1, 2012.  It will also receive publication in a collection by One Act Play Depot.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" was chosen to be included in Theatre Southwest's 7th Annual Reader's Theatre event in Houston on March 11. 
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by North Park Vaudeville as a part of their 10 Minute Madness Festival, March 2-24, 2012 in San Diego.
"William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother,'" a reworked monologue from "The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was presented by Insignificant Theatre at their February Speakeasy in London.
An excerpt from "The Watch" was published in the February, 2012 edition of the online Literary Magazine Forty Ounce Bachelors. 

 

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John Adams and Ron Schulz at Snowdance
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" was selected for the Snowdance 2012 10 Minute Comedy Festival  presented by Over Our Head Players in Racine, WI Jan 27-Feb 26, 2012. 
"An Unfamiliar Waltz" was selected for the North American New Plays Festival produced by Carte Blanche Studios in Milwaukee, WI, January 19-29, 2012.
Trace's play "The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" has been published in the Smith & Kraus anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011.
"The Last Firefly" will be included in the upcoming book InterJACtions II from JAC Publishing.  It can be purchased here.
Trace was interviewed for the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of The Dramatist magazine.  Read the article HERE   --or --  View the cover HERE.

2011 Productions/Honors

"An Unfamiliar Waltz" was presented by Love Creek Productions' Brief Acts Company in December 2-4 at The Producers Club in NYC.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was chosen to be a part of this year's Museum of Dysfunction presented by Mildred's Umbrella at the Obsidian Art Space in Houston, December 1-10.

 

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Shaka Omari Smith
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"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company as a part of their 2011 New Play Fest, November 16-20 in NYC.
Both "An Unfamiliar Waltz" and "Christopher Durang Brings Medea Back to Disneyland" were chosen as runners-up in the Valley Repertory Company's 3rd Labworks Fifteen-Minute New Play Contest.
"A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking'" has been selected to be published in the Smith & Kraus anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2012.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was chosen to be a part of MadLab's 6 in 60: Hits, performed on November 11 & 18.  Thank you to everyone that voted!
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by Shelterbelt Theatre as a part of Shelterskelter 16 from October 6 - 31, 2011 in Omaha.
A special encore performance of the Black Box Theatre's production of "A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking" was given on Sept 24 at The Apartment, Providence to benefit the production of a new musical about Vlad the Impaler.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was selected by Seoul Players for their Ten Minute Play Festival to be presented Sept 17-Oct 2, 2011 in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea.
"The Watch" was selected as a winner in the One-Act Category of the Chameleon Theatre Circle's 12th Annual New Play Contest and was given a reading at the festival on September 10. 
"The Watch" was a winner of the Truffle Theatre Company 1st Truffle Hunt New Play Festival and was given a staged reading on August 30 & 31 at 7:30 at 61 Local in Brooklyn.
"Everybody's a Critic" was given a reading on August 21 at Madlab in Columbus, OH.

 

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At Black Box (photo: Mike Luciano)
"A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking" was presented by Black Box Theatre at Artist's Exchange in Cranston, RI as a part of their One Act Play Festival, Wave II, August 19-28.
"Everybody's a Critic" was presented by Love Creek Productions' Brief Acts Company  August 13-15, 2011 at The Producers' Club in NYC.
"(This is) Fine Art?," a reworked version of "Things You Can't Lose (Like TV and Tattoos)" premiered at the City Theatre of Independence (MO) in their 2011 Play Write Festival, July 14-17, 2011.
Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga took "The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" to Atlanta for Odd Man Out Theatre Company's Drive-By Theater Project on July 12, 2011. 
"Everybody's a Critic" was presented by Love Creek Productions' Brief Acts Company  July 11-14, 2011 at The Producers' Club Crown Theatre in NYC.

 

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At Arts Center Stage
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented as a part of Arts Center Stage's 10x10 in the Triangle July 8-24, 2011.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented by Between Us Productions as part of an evening of readings in NYC on June 18, 2011 at The Director's Studio.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is (1 Min Version)" was selected for Gi60: Live U.S. Edition, presented at Brooklyn College, June 10-11, 2011.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is" was presented as a part of Fusion Theatre Company's The Seven: Tangled Webs in Albuquerque, NM, June 9-12, 2011. 
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was presented by Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga in their Short Attention Span Theatre Festival from May 27-June 12, 2011.
"And What a Damn Fine Morning it Is (1 Min Version)" was presented by Frogs with Fangs, a Columbus, OH sketch comedy group, on May 26th, 2011.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was given a reading for the Virtual Short Play Buffet by Avatar Repertory Theatre in Second Life on May 13th, 2011.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was presented by Stage Door Productions in their Fourth Annual One-Act Play Festival May 6-15, 2011.
"A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking" was presented by Sundog Theatre as a part of Scenes From the Staten Island Ferry from April 2-10, 2011 at the New Dorp Moravian Church Theater, Staten Island and from April 15-17 at the Vital Theatre/McGinn Cazale Theatre in Manhattan.
"The Sum of Your Experience" was presented at MadLab in Columbus, OH as a part of 3 in 30: Shadows on March 18 & 19 2011.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was selected as a finalist in the Curan Reperatory Company's 2011 Notes From The Underground Festival.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'"  and "How to Succeed in Romance Without Really Connecting" were presented by Love Creek Productions' Brief Acts Company as a part of Romance and That Kind of %#@#% for Valentine's Day, February 12-14, 2011 at The Producers' Club in NYC.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" will be published in the Smith & Kraus anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was performed by Celebrationworks as part of Seaside Off-Broadway Theater’s  "Love In Many Flavors" in Encinitas, CA over Valentine's Day weekend, 2011.

2010 Productions/Honors

"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was performed by Mildred's Umbrella as part of Museum of Dysfunction III at Obsidian Art Space in Houston from December 2-11, 2010. 
                   Check out the awesome write-up in American Theatre Magazine HERE.
"A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Aroung Talking" was selected for the Word*Play Short Script Competition and was presented as a staged reading at InterMedia Arts in Minneapolis, MN on November 29, 2010. 
"The Watch" was presented by Between Us Productions as part of an evening of staged readings in NYC on November 13, 2010. 
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Between Us
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was performed by Point of Contention as part of the 5th Chaos Festival of New Works in Chicago from November 8-17, 2010.
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Future Tenant
"How to Succeed in Romance Without Really Connecting" was performed at Future Tenant as part of Future Ten: 10 Minute Play Festival in Pittsburgh from November 4-13, 2010.
"Everybody's a Critic" was performed by n.u.f.a.n. ensemble as a part of The Table and Chairs Festival at Prop Thtr in Chicago on October 19 & 20, 2010.
"Time to Change the Pitch" was the 1st Place National Winner in the 2010 Bloomington Playwrights Project (IN) Awarefest competition and will be performed from October 1-16.
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BPP: Awarefest
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was performed by the Independent Theatre Collective as part of StoFest 2010 in Wheeling, WV from October 10-17, 2010.
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Pint Sized Plays
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was a winner of the UK Pint Sized Plays competition.  It will be performed in pubs around Pembrokeshire, Wales in Sept 2010 and in the Script Slam in October at Theatr Gwaun in Fishguard.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was performed in New York City in the 2010 Turtle Shell Productions: Summer Shorties, Summ... ar Not at the Times Square Arts Center August 20-29.
 "COINTELPRO Visits the Church Basement Ladies" Premiered at MadLab (Columbus, OH) as a part of 3 in 30: Hammer! August 13 & 14 2010
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was performed off-off Broadway by the Rapscallion Theatre Collective July 8-11, 2010 in the 4th Annual Salute UR Shorts Festival.
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Rapscallions
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The Lakeshore Production
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was a winner of the 2010 Lakeshore Players Theatre (MN) 10-Minute Play Contest.  Given 6 performances between June 3-6, 2010.
“How to Succeed in Romance without Really Connecting” received an honorable mention in the Eclectic Company Theatre's 2010 Hurricane Season New Play Festival and Playwriting Competition.
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" was a winner of the 2010 Reader's Theatre competition at Theatre Southwest, Houston TX and  premiered as a staged reading at Theatre Southwest on April 14, 2010.