13 Facts About Amy Freed

Amy Freed was born on 1958 and is an American playwright.

Amy Freed's play Freedomland was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Amy Freed's mother is the actor, acting teacher and director Margaret Loft.

Amy Freed earned a degree in acting at Southern Methodist University.

Amy Freed wrote The Beard of Avon which was commissioned and premiered by South Coast Repertory, opening in May 2001.

Amy Freed wrote Hell to Pay, one of twenty works commissioned by the Berkeley Rep as part of The Food Project.

Amy Freed gave a lecture on the play in February 2014 at Stanford.

Amy Freed's work has been produced at New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and other theaters around the US.

Amy Freed currently teaches acting and playwriting at Stanford University, where she advised the creators of The Manic Monologues.

Amy Freed has been the recipient of the Kesselring Prize, the Charles MacArthur Award and is a several times winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.

Amy Freed received the South Coast Repertory 2009 Steinberg Commission, which involved a grant from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust to write a play for SCR.

Amy Freed was one of five playwrights in the Arena Stage, Washington DC, new program "American Voices New Play Institute", starting in 2010 for three years.

Amy Freed is married to San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle.