Posted by: donfried on: March 22, 2011
The San Juan Capistrano Patch gave a rave review of last weekend’s opening of Getting Betta at the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano. Click the picture or here to follow the link to the review.
Posted by: donfried on: March 13, 2011
On Saturday, March 12th, Senior Moments was given a special award for Playwriting at the American Association of Community Theater Region 7 finals at the Bas Bleu Theater in Fort Collins, Colorado. The play’s lead actor, Timothy Englert, won the Best Actor Award for the festival. Senior Moments was presented at the festival by Coal [...]
Posted by: donfried on: December 15, 2010
1. Senior Moments is going to be presented at the FronteraFest Long Fringe in Austin, Texas, January 22nd – 30th. Tim Englert, who has been the male role in all the U.S. productions of Senor Moments so far and who recently moved to Austin, will be joined by fantastic Austin-based actor Lana Dieterich. The production [...]
Posted by: donfried on: August 5, 2010
Senior Moments was presented 3 weeks ago as Coal Creek Community Theater’s entry in the Colorado Community Theater Coalition Festival at the Nomad Theater in Boulder. The production took 3rd Best Production, and Tim Englert won the Best Actor prize. That’s not bad for a show with 2 actors, a table and 2 chairs; we [...]
Posted by: donfried on: April 4, 2010
Each time I finish a play, especially a full length one, I become more or less catatonic. I can’t bear even the thought of writing anything else; a state that lasts for anywhere from two to four months. Then, one day, I realize that I’m seeing things, and starting to get annoyed. Not that I’m [...]
Posted by: donfried on: February 10, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I crossed an important barrier. Some time during my working career – I think it was about 1980 — I realized that I was getting a sick feeling in my stomach every time the phone would ring or my boss would call me into his office. It was almost always [...]
Posted by: donfried on: January 26, 2010
According to Hollywood folklore, the words in the title of this post are what a studio functionary is supposed to have written about Fred Astaire’s screen test for RKO Pictures in the early 1930s. That quotation comes more and more to mind as Shakespeare Incorporated and several of my other plays begin having some success. [...]
Posted by: donfried on: January 26, 2010
“The Code,” the first of the 5 short plays in Senior Moments, will be performed live on Boulder’s Channel 54 Community Television, Wednesday, January 27th, at 7 pm. After the play, they’ll be interviewing me. You can watch the program live at http://www.cctv54.org.
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, [...]
