Smithner, N. (2025) Embodied Learning in Educational Theatre: Perspectives on Kinesthetic Change and Social Transformation from Urban Classrooms and Prison Settings. Routledge.

Smithner, N. (2024) Meredith Monk: Five Decades of Embodied Innovation. Book chapter in Great American Stage Directors of the Northeast: Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Smithner, N. (2018) Introduction: Performance as Activism ArtsPraxis, Volume 5: 2.

Smithner, N. (2017) “Teaching Artistry Full Circle: Formerly Incarcerated Students as Co-teachers” Teaching Artist Journal 15:1, 33-38, Taylor & Francis Group

Smithner, N. (2012) Exploring Pedagogical Approaches in Applied Theatre in Correctional Facilities: Discoveries and Resonances for Arts-based Educational Researchers” in Taylor, P, ed. Theatre Behind Bars: Can the Arts Rehabilitate?” NY: Trentham.

Smithner, N. (2012) Directing a Shakespeare Youth Ensemble through Physical Theatre: Case Narrative, in Landy, Robert and David Montgomery, Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Smithner, N. (2011) Creative Play: Incorporating play, liminality and ritual in teaching K – 12 in Schonnman, Shifra, ed., Key Concepts in Drama in Education, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Smithner, N. (2010) The Women’s Project: Voices of Women -- a Director’s Perspective on Creating a Performance Collage,” ArtsPraxis: Volume 2.

Smithner, N. (2007) Devising with Physical Theatre: An Eclectic Approach, Årsskrift 200, Danmarks Dramalærerforening.

Smithner, N. (2005) Meredith Monk: Four Decades by Design and Invention, The Drama Review, Summer 2005, T186.

Smithner, N. (2002) “Directing the Acting Ensemble: Meredith Monk, Elizabeth Lecompte and Anne Bogart,”Doctoral dissertation.