Phillip Christian Smith is a resident member of New Dramatists 2023-2030, the 2026 winner of the prestigious Kleban Prize for most promising musical theatre librettist, a 2026 Sloan Commission Playwright at Ensemble Studio Theater, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, a Fire This Time Festival Playwright, a Fresh Ground Pepper Playground Playgroup member, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee (current staff), a Roe Green Commission Playwright with Cleveland Playhouse, and a Playwrights Realm and Lambda Literary Fellow. Attendee: Winter Playwrights Retreat, The Outrage: A Queer Writers Residency, Florida Rep PlayLab, and The Valdez Conference. Finalist: PlayPenn, Trustus, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, and National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill. Founding member and 1/5th of The Omnivores theater collective. He teaches acting at Pace University and Hunter College, where he has also taught playwriting. He holds an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama, an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College, and a BFA from University of New Mexico.