Charles Smith is head of the Professional Playwriting Program at Ohio University and playwright in residence at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago . His plays have been produced off-Broadway and around the country by theaters such as Victory Gardens , The Acting Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, People's Light & Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Penumbra, St. Louis Black Rep, New Federal Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Berkeley Repertory Theater. His work has also been produced for the HBO New Writers Project, the International Children's Theater Festival in Seattle , and the North Carolina Black Arts Festival. His play Pudd'nhead Wilson enjoyed a twenty-two city national tour and his plays Takunda and City of Gold enjoyed tours of the west coast. His other plays include Knock Me a Kiss, Freefall, Les Trois Dumas, The Sutherland, Sister Carrie, Black Star Line, Jelly Belly, Young Richard, and Cane. A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Smith has received commissions from Victory Gardens , The Goodman, Seattle Rep, Indiana Rep, The Acting Company, and Ohio University . He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and has taught playwriting at Northwestern University . His plays can be obtained through Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Meriwether Publishing Ltd. For more information about the plays of Charles Smith, please visit http://www.csplays.com