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''. She was also the executive story editor and script coordinator for 66 episodes from 1999 to 2003. While living in Brooklyn, Smith was active on ''The Bronze'', the ''

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'' message board, and wrote Buffy

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, before attending a Bronze meet-up in Los Angeles in 1998. Through a connection there, she obtained a position as assistant to a co-executive producer on the series '' Strange World''. She then became a script coordinator and later a writer of the Buffy spin-off series ''Angel''. Among the episodes of ''Angel'' that Smith wrote, "

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" was described by director Terrence O'Hara as "''the'' most challenging episode", and by producer

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as "maybe ��her best episode, just really dense and complicated and really interesting.” She also wrote the episodes " Heroes of the Republic" and " Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus" for the

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series ''

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'' (2007), as well as episodes of ''

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'' (2003), ''

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'' (2007), ''

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'', and ''

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'' (2011). Smith attended

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, Florida, and in 1993 won a

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to study acting at

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, where she contributed often to its theatre productions. She is originally from

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Angel episodes

*2.04 "Untouched" *2.11 "Redefinition" *2.12 "Blood Money" *2.20 "

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" *3.05 " Fredless" *3.11 "

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" *3.15 "

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" *4.02 "

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" *4.09 "Long Day's Journey" *4.12 "Calvary" *4.15 "

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