in November 2005. The play is "the story of real-life father and son Puritan preachers Cotton and Increase Mather. The comedy delves into the story behind the witch hunt." You, Nero premiered at South Coast Repertory in 2009 and focuses on "the effect Nero had on the theater scene in ancient Rome..." The play was produced at the Arena Stage in 2011. In 2012, Freed's play "Restoration Comedy" was performed at the Flea Theater. The production was described as "performed with insouciant wit" in a play which "celebrates a libertine spirit that’s hard to deny." The Monster-Builder premiered at Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland, Oregon, in February 2014. Called a "wonderfully wild and witty play" by Richard Wattenberg, it focuses on a master architect, Gregor Zubrowski, whose "single-minded pursuit of professional glory has stripped him of his humanity." She wrote Hell to Pay, one of twenty works commissioned by the Berkeley Rep as part of The Food Project. She gave a lecture on the play in February 2014 at Stanford. Her 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. She currently teaches acting and playwriting at Stanford University, where she advised the creators of The Manic Monologues. Honors and awards She 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. Freed received the South Coast Repertory (SCR) 2009 Steinberg Commission, which involved a grant from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust to write a play for SCR. She was one of five playwrights in the Arena Stage, Washington DC, new program "American Voices New Play Institute", starting in 2010 for three years. Personal She is married to San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle. Selected plays Still Warm 1991. About the life of the television journalist Jessica Savitch. Claustrophilia 1993. About the relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and his teen bride. The Ghoul of Amherst 1993. A short comic vignette about the poet Emily Dickinson visiting the death bed of a classmate. The Psychic Life of Savages 1995. About the lives of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Freedomland 1997 The Beard of Avon 2001 Safe in Hell 2004 Restoration Comedy 2005. A reworking of classic Restoration-era comedies by Cibber and Vanbrugh. You,