About Us

Marc SmithMarc P. Smith,
Executive Producer, co-founder

Playwright/film writer/producer, Marc co-founded the award-winning Worcester (MA) Foothills Theatre Company in 1974 and served at the helm of this Equity company for 25 years. Marc has had more than a dozen of his plays professionally produced in New York, Los Angeles, Waterford, CT (the O'Neill Theater Center, which he also co-founded), Boston, Lenox, and Worcester, Massachusetts.

Marc served as chief writer of the American Forces Korea Network and then as broadcast specialist for the Public Information Office at Fort Jackson, S.C. Later, in New York City, he was post-production liaison and then film audition liaison for CBS Films, Inc. He has taught courses and/or guest-lectured in film and theatre at Clark University, College of the Holy Cross, Assumption, Bennington, Worcester State and Nichols Colleges.

For the past six years, he has been engaged in a multi-year creative project centering on resistance to the Nazis, and reconciliation between Germans, Jews, and Poles. As a cornerstone of this endeavor, he has written two plays. One focuses on a remarkable couple at the center of German resistance: Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, "A Journey to Kreisau." The other tells the little known story of a Polish hero of the resistance, Jan Karski, often referred to as the man who tried to stop the Holocaust--"Karski".

Susan SmithSusan L. Smith,
Associate Producer, Director of PR and Marketing, co-founder

Co-founder of both Blue Pumpkin Productions (1998) and Worcester Foothills Theatre (1974), Susan has had responsibility for all communications and marketing efforts for both organizations. She has guest lectured at Assumption College and, since 2002, has been an adjunct faculty member of Clark University's COPACE division where she is Internship Coordinator for students in the Master's degree programs in Professional Communication and Public Administration. She also teaches a course at Clark in Audience Development, Event Planning, and Promotion.

In the mid-1980s she was special projects coordinator for Mechanics Hall in Worcester where she developed, marketed and implemented a new speakers series, "In Celebrated Company". Over two years, speakers included: N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo, Sen. William Proxmire, writers Dith Pran and Nora Ephron, and 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley. She presently offers consulting services in audience development for performing arts organizations.

Blue Pumpkin Productions

Blue Pumpkin Productions, an active corporation since 1999, was established by Marc P. and Susan L. Smith to engage in a variety of entertainment-related projects for stage, film, and other media. Several versions of cabaret and vaudeville revues have been presented in venues throughout Massachusetts. Since 2002, an additional primary creative mission has been pursuit of reconciliation between Germans, Jews, and Poles, and transmission of memory via the arts. Central to this mission, called The Kreisau Project, are two plays written by Marc P. Smith, A Journey to Kreisau and Karski, both of which have been performed in U.S. cities, and in cities in Germany and Poland.