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Crystal Smith-Connelly

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Crystal Smith-Connelly has written more than fifty plays, some of which have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Maryland, and France. Crystal is the author of For I Am Zeus: A Collection of Plays About Greek Mythology, Never Trust an Angel and Other Plays, Goat Herpes and Other Problems, Paranormal Jokes and Haiku, Give Hell a Chance: A Book of Plays, and Heaven Help Us: A Book of Plays. She also runs two blogs (Why would you want to be normal when you could be paranormal? and Cloudy with a Chance of Murder), and she's the writer-director of the Godly Acres web series. Crystal lives in Los Angeles and would be delighted to hear from you at
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Crystal Smith-Connelly The best thing about being a writer is being able to make people laugh. I've loved comedy my whole life, but I never thought I could actually create c…moreThe best thing about being a writer is being able to make people laugh. I've loved comedy my whole life, but I never thought I could actually create comedy until I took a playwriting class in college and realized that people thought my plays were funny. Once I learned that I could make people laugh, I knew that's what I would spend my life doing. The best part about being a playwright is getting to see my plays performed in front of an audience...there's no better feeling than the one I get when I hear a room full of people laughing at something I wrote!(less)
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Crystal Smith-Connelly Never play it safe. Write what you want to write, and don't worry about whether it might offend someone...if I worried about that, none of my plays wo…moreNever play it safe. Write what you want to write, and don't worry about whether it might offend someone...if I worried about that, none of my plays would exist! ; )(less)
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I love Riverdale, so this Halloween I decided to dress up as Cheryl Blossom. I couldn't decide on just one costume though, so I had two. 😊







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message 1: by Rebecca
Dec 16, 2012 10:35AM

Rebecca Douglass So glad you're enjoying the Ninja Librarian! He's modeled (in a very loose and mostly totally imaginary way) after the former head librarian at the branch where I work, though I can't imagine the real Tom knocking any heads together!


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