Dad Don't Read This

Eliya Smith (Author)

Dad Don't Read This

Eliya Smith (Author)

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Description

dad
please
i am asking you nicely
go away
this play
is not
for you

NY Times Critics' Pick

In suburban Central Ohio, four girls meet weekly for a sleepover. They talk and sleep and play The Sims, a computer game that simulates real life, on a laptop. They gossip, snack, and attempt to get drunk. They strive to fulfill their needs, struggle to understand the relationship between doing and being seen, and begin to suspect they don't have a whole lot of agency.

Wait, nevermind; that's The Sims.

Eliya Smith's Dad Don't Read This is a coming-of-age play about the people who know you before you know anything. A love letter to adolescence and to teenage friendship, the play was published following a sold out 2026 summer premiere in New York City.

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Product details

Published	10 Sep 2026
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Pages	96
ISBN	9781350678989
Imprint	Methuen Drama
Series	Modern Plays
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Eliya Smith

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