Donald Freed

Who is Donald Freed?

Donald Freed is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and actor. He is associated with writing programs at the University of Southern California, and was Artist in Residence at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK, and Playwright in Residence at York Theatre Royal, participating in a six-week Master Class in York in October and November 2007. He has also been Playwright in Residence at Denison University, Ohio and taught at Loyola Marymount University.

His latest play, Patient #1, "set in 2009 at an elite psychiatric clinic in South Florida, imagines a heavily sedated President George W. Bush, after he has left the Oval Office". It was published in 2007 and is being staged at York Theatre Royal in early 2008.