One of my top shows of the season… Dad Don't Read This is rambunctious and delightfully, kinetically familiar.

Helen Shaw, New York Times

Smith's naturalistic dramatic voice is a still-sticky adolescent mixture of wild feeling and zoned-out alienation.

Helen Shaw, New York Times

Unsettling, hilarious, oddly serene… a burst of frenetic energy.

Vulture

Dad Don't Read This will shred you into little tiny pieces if you ever were, ever raised, or ever loved, a sixteen-year-old girl in suburbia.

Exeunt

A beautiful simulation of teen girlhood … gets to the heart of these inscrutable, hilarious, infuriating creatures who move through the world yelling look at me! and don't look at me! in the same breath.

Theatermania

highly entertaining… Smith impresses as a playwright ready to break through

New York Stage Review