M. Graham Smith is a freelance Director, Educator and Producer. He was raised just outside New York City and has been based in San Francisco since 2004. Recent directing credits include World Premieres of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon at Magic Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe, and Kait Kerrigan's Father/Daughter at Aurora and the West Coast premieres of Mia Chung’s You for Me for You at Crowded Fire and James Ijames’ White at Shotgun. His most recent World Premiere is the new musical, The Mortification of Fovea Munson, which premiered at The Kennedy Center in March ‘23. He is currently developing a new play, FDR’s Very Happy Hour for The Perelman Center for the Arts in NYC, centering d/Disability and Access in an immersive environment. He teaches at American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He’s a graduate of the Dell’arte School of Physical Theater and Wesleyan University where he directed the first workshop of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights.