Donald Freed's plays include INQUEST (directed by Alan Schneider); SECRET HONOR (directed by Robert Altman); CIRCE & BRAVO, (with Faye Dunaway, directed by Harold Pinter); THE QUARTERED MAN, VETERAN'S DAY (with Jack Lemon and Michael Gambon); IS HE STILL DEAD (with Julie Harris as Nora Joyce); THE WHITE CROW, LOVE AND SHADOWS (from the novel by Isabel Allende); SOCRATES MUST DIE (with Ed Asner); ALFRED AND VICTORIA (A LIFE).
His books and films include AGONY IN NEW HAVEN; EXECUTIVE ACTION (novel and film with Mark Lane); 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); and DEATH IN WASHINGTON; KILLING TIME; and EVERY THIRD HOUSE.
Mr. Freed has received three Rockefeller 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"; and the Hollywood Critics Award. He currently is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at USC. He directed production of his HOW SHALL WE BE SAVED? (with Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan) at The Lost Studio in Los Angeles in Summer 2002.
He was celebrated by the Writers Guild in the fall 2003 at Barnes & Noble at the Grove for having written one of the acknowledged unproduced masterpieces of screenwriting with his The Assassination of Martin Luther King. Later in 2004 he launched a new journal and publishing enterprise based on writings collected on his website AnotherAmerica.org. Another America, The Journal features writings submitted by Harold Pinter, A.J. Langguth, Leon Katz and other established masters as well as authors new to the world of publishing.
In the winter of 2004 He was awarded the Jonathan R. Reynold's Playwriting Residence at Denison University. During that residency he wrote and world premiered The Death of Ivan Ilych, based on Tolstoy's novella.
Donald Freed is currently an artist in residence at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds.
"Donald Freed is a writer of blazing imagination, courage and insight. His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics art. I take my hat off to him"
Harold Pinter
