“Dickinson” creator and showrunner Alena Smith has always worked from home, but during the COVID-19 pandemic she spent more time in that space than ever before, even going so far as to turn it ...

The creator Alena Smith had planned to set the final season during the conflict. “What we did not know was that there would be a pandemic, and that it would have echoes of the Civil War,” she ...

Apple has closed an overall deal with Alena Smith, the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the streamer's praised original comedy series Dickinson. News of the pact, which had been ...

In 2020, “Dickinson” won a Peabody and Smith signed a multiyear deal with Apple; the question of how to invent on one's own terms, in the shadow of success, felt urgent. In the show, acclaim ...

During Alena Smith’s play “Icebergs,” in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, thirtysomething screenwriter Calder (Nate Corddry) sets up an air mattress in his Silver Lake living room ...

Apple has closed an overall deal with Alena Smith, the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the streamer's praised original comedy series Dickinson. News of the pact, which had been ...