"In sixteen years as a theater critic and eight subsequent years as a
playwright and producer in both Dallas and New York, I have seen
thousands and worked with hundreds of actors. A few years ago, during the
Off-Off-Broadway run of one of my plays, my co-producers and I
held auditions for a future acting company. This being New York, we were
inundated with requests to audition. Holding auditions can be a real
grind; you see so many people, so much hope, and so much mediocrity. You
start to think actors are just like office drones or bureaucrats-- most
of them adequate but uninspired,doing as little as they can to get by.
But then someone like Adam Smith Jr.comes in, and reminds you about the
magic part of it all. This actor is a fine instrument-- a Stradivarius
any director, playwright or producer would be delighted to play. And this
Strad has an intelligence and range to match his depth of talent in both
classical and contemporary roles. I’ve written one play expressly for
him—Miracle Day, which
he co-produced with me in New York and in which he gave a brilliant
performance in the demanding lead role—and plan to write more. He also
directed a New York workshop of my play Bloodletters to great effect. Adam is the whole package, and he understands the full spectrum of art, theater and show business."
-Tom
Sime, playwright, producer, former theater critic at The Dallas
Morning News, and former Managing Director of Contemporary Theatre of
Dallas