Donald Freed
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- For the Canadian singer of the same name, see Don Freed.
Donald Freed is an American playwright, novelist and screenwriter, who was born in Chicago, 1933 and lives in Los Angeles. He specializes in politically engaged theater. For example, in addition to the plays, films and novels listed below, his web site contains a draft of a new play, “Patient #1.” It imagines a heavily sedated ex-President George W. Bush put away in solitary confinement in a psychiatric clinic. [1][2]
Freed is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, he is also Artist in Residence at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK (Fall 2006 - Spring 2008).
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[edit] Plays (selected)
- Inquest (directed by Alan Schneider), about the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- The Devil's Advocate (about U.S. invasion of Panama and President Noriega
- Circe & Bravo, (with Faye Dunaway, directed by Harold Pinter)
- The Quartered Man,
- Veteran's Day (with Jack Lemmon and Michael Gambon)
- Is He Still Dead? (with Julie Harris as Nora Joyce)
- The White Crow
- Sokrates Must Die (with Ed Asner)
- Alfred and Victoria (A Life)
[edit] Books
- Agony in New Haven: The trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, and the Black Panther Party (1973)
- The Glasshouse Tapes
- The Spymaster
- In Search of Common Ground (with Erik Erikson, Kai Erikson, Huey P. Newton);
- The Existentialism of Alberto Moravia (with Joan Ross)
- Death in Washington: The murder of Orlando Letelier (1980)
- Killing Time: The First Full Investigation into the Unsolved Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman (1996)
- Every Third House (2005)
[edit] Films
- Executive Action (novel and film with Dalton Trumbo and Mark Lane)
- Secret Honor (directed by Robert Altman)
- Of Love and Shadows (from the novel by Isabel Allende)
[edit] Awards
- Three Rockefeller Foundation awards, including the Rockefeller Fellow in Residence, Bellagio Center, Italy.
- Two Louis B. Mayer Awards
- The Unicorn Prize
- The Gold Medal Award
- The Berlin Critics Award
- The NEA Award for "Distinguished Writing"
- Hollywood Critics Award.
- PEN USA 2006 Literary Award for “Devil’s Advocate,” a play set on Christmas Eve 1989 during the U.S. invasion of Panama.
