Lance Arthur Smith

Lance Arthur Smith received his BA in Theatre with concentrations in Writing and Acting at the University of New Mexico under Emmy-winning writer Digby Wolfe (Laugh-In). His interstitial musical shorts appeared in the first three years of the University’s Dionysus In The Round festival of one-acts, and his plays True Blue and Brushing The Center (co-written with Phillip Hughes) were produced there.

Commissions include The Price of Peace (New Village Arts) and Miracle On 34th Street (San Diego Musical Theatre). His play The Two Wisemen Of Las Cruces was a Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Semifinalist and Princess Grace Award Semifinalist.

Head Writer of the sci-fi pilot Orbital Broadcast One for TFK/Wavebreaking, he also appeared as a series regular alongside Star Trek veterans George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Tim Russ.

His book Princess Geek was recently published, a non-fiction account of parenting a girl in the age of geek chic.