Pascale Smith made her film debut at age nine in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and has since appeared frequently on stage and screen. Awards include Best Lead Actress in Drama for her performance in the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Best Major Supporting Actress in a Drama as Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both at Stagedoor Manor.
Pascale is a member of Philadelphia’s Outside the Box Theater Company where she recently performed the role of Amanda in Timothy Mason’s The Less-Than-Human-Club, and of Tangle: Movement Arts, where appeared as an aerialist in their 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival production of Ampersand and their 2012 Performance Garage performance of Half Life. Pascale made her directing debut in her 2011 Fringe Festival production of Neil Labute’s BASH. As a singer/songwriter, she has performed her original songs throughout the Philadelphia area at venues such as Ardmore’s Milkboy Coffee and Triumph Brewing Company in Old City.
Pascale has studied playwriting at Carnegie Mellon’s Precollege Drama Program, and has studied screenwriting with Katheleen DeMarco Van Cleve and playwriting with Seth Bauer through the University of Pennsylvania Young Scholars Program. Her play Timeline won first place in the 2011 Philadelphia Young Playwrights competition. Her play Brambles was recognized in the 2011 VSA Playwright Discovery Program and won second place in the 2011 Philadelphia Young Playwrights competition. The short film MsRight, which co-wrote and starred in, was a finalist in the 2011 Philadelphia Film Society Short Film Competition. Pascale is currently at 12th grader at 21st Century Cyber Charter School.
Pascale studies acting privately with Lisbeth Bartlett and Melissa Dunphy, and at the Actors Center in Old City, Philadelphia. She studies songwriting and guitar with Judah Salem Kim of the popular band Stonethrown. She trains aerial acrobatics at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, where she specializes in lyra. When not performing, Pascale enjoys writing plays, singing close harmony with her three sisters, baking, and knitting.
