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name: "Alena Smith"
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roles: ["Director","Creator","Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T11:55:44.826916+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alena Smith

Director and creator. Born in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Creator, Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alena_Smith, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100981402, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5509776/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2353510

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Dickinson*](https://film.one/tv/dickinson.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alena Smith is an American screenwriter, producer and director. She is a graduate of Haverford College and holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. She began her television career as a staff writer on the third season of HBO's *The Newsroom* (2014) and later wrote and produced episodes of Showtime's *The Affair* (2015–2017).

Smith created the Apple TV+ series *Dickinson* (2019–2021), serving as showrunner, writer and executive producer across all 30 episodes; she also directed the series finale. The anachronistic comedy-drama, starring Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson, ran for three seasons. She has also written plays, short films and the book *Tween Hobo: Off The Rails* (2016).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dickinson* (2019), Fi1m 68, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/dickinson.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dickinson* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/dickinson.md)
- *The Bad Guys* (2018), Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Affair* (2014), series, Writer, Story Editor, Co-Producer
- *My America* (2014), Writer
- *The Newsroom* (2012), series, Staff Writer
- *Untitled Breakfast at Tiffany's Making of Film*, Screenplay
- *Cry Wolf*, series, Executive Producer

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