Alena Smith (Writing)
Little is known about Alena Smith, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Dickinson
Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world’s greatest poet.
Release Date: 2019-11-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 925
The Bad Guys
During a fleeting return trip to his childhood home, a budding filmmaker is confronted by the now-grown ensemble of his old hometown friends - none of whom are aware that he intends to make his fortune off the shared childhood trauma that splintered them apart all those years ago. During an alcohol-fueled weekend of reminiscence and regret, the eccentric 20-somethings open old wounds, make new mistakes, and realize that the consequences of youth can follow you into adulthood.
Release Date: 2018-02-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 6
The Affair
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
Release Date: 2014-10-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 369
My America
21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.
Release Date: 2014-07-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The Newsroom
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
Release Date: 2012-06-24
Department: Writing
Job: Staff Writer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 619
Something Wicked
With a Bewitched-type premise and an homage to TV sitcom classics, Something Wicked examines the condition of modern adult womanhood and how even with witchcraft, balancing everything is impossible.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1