Kenley Smith

Kenley Smith is a newcomer to Nashville, where he served last season as an Ingram New Works Lab playwright-in-residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre. He was founder and former artistic director of Studio Roanoke, a Virginia new-works theatre. His “Devil Sedan” was a featured play at the 2008 Great Plains Theatre Conference and won first place at the Barter Theatre’s 2008 Festival of Appalachian Plays and Playwrights. Kenley earned an M.F.A. in Playwriting and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing, both from Hollins University. He has taught playwriting at Randolph College and at the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference.