Posted by: donfried on: December 31, 2011
Michael is a technologically challenged senior living in a retirement home. One day he’s sitting in his living room throwing remote controls as his TV/DVR when Betta, an anthropomorphic computer program appears. As she continually gets unwanted technology upgrades, things spiral out of control. Getting Betta premiered simultaneously in Colorado and California in March, 2011. [...]
Posted by: donfried on: September 11, 2010
Senior Moments is going to be performed November 19th and 20th at Reviving the Spirit, the community theater of the remote district of Hudson’s Hope in northeast British Columbia, Canada. The district has 1,157 people in 358 square miles. They learned about the play on the Coal Creek Community Theater website. I love the Internet!
Posted by: donfried on: July 15, 2010
“Young Mr. Hoover,” my short play about 12 year old Johnny Hoover, who already displaying the behavior that he’ll take with him to adulthood, will be featured in G-Men in G-Strings: The J. Edgar Hoover Follies, 9 all new, all comic short plays inspired by America’s unlikeliest cross-dresser. It will be performed July 30th – [...]
Posted by: donfried on: May 21, 2010
Seascape, the Pulitzer Prize Winning play by Edward Albee, will be appearing at the Theater Company of Lafayette, Colorado, June 4th – 26th. (OK, so it’s not a play that I wrote, but it’s just as good!)
Posted by: donfried on: March 16, 2010
Today, Foreword Reviews announced the finalists for their annual Book of the Year Awards, and Ups & Downs by Don and his son, David Kassin Fried, made the list! First, second, and third place winners in each category will be announced in New York City at Book Expo America on May 25th, along with two [...]
Posted by: donfried on: February 22, 2010
There were fantastic articles on the premieres of Postville and Shakespeare Incorporated this past weekend: Friday in the Longmont Times Call and Sunday in the Boulder Camera.
Posted by: donfried on: January 1, 2010
Senior Moments, my latest full-length play, premiered the weekend of January 8th at the Theater Company of Lafayette, Colorado. The theater was absolutely packed for all 3 performances, and we had to turn away quite a few people. We’re considering putting on an additional run this summer, so watch this space. Thank you to [...]
Posted by: donfried on: September 13, 2009
A few weeks ago, my 10-minute play “The Code” won first prize in the 2009 Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase at Coal Creek Community Theater in Louisville, Colorado. “The Code” is the first play in Senior Moments, a series of 5 short plays I’ve written for Tim Englert and Ellen Ranson, two actor friends of mine, [...]
Posted by: donfried on: April 19, 2009
I heard yesterday that my “Postville” play was selected as one of the winners in the 2009 Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region playwrighting competition. The competition was open to writers from the 23 states west of the Mississippi River. During the Showcase (some time from August 5th – 8th), “Postville” will have a staged [...]
Posted by: donfried on: February 9, 2009
My play, “Shakespeare Incorporated,” which is a zany, but historically possible treatment of who really wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare, has been selected as the grand prize winner in the Rocky Mountain Theater Association 2009 Festival full-length play category. (I’m so excited!)
