Ed Friedman

PLAYWRIGHT

Ed’s short plays have been staged throughout the NY metropolitan area and around the country. His anthology Short Plays for Long Lives is published by Blue Moon Publishing. His monologues are contained in the anthologies of Mother/Daughter Monologues: Mid-life Catharsis* and Urgent Maturity* published by the International Centre for Women Playwrights. Ed’s monologue Hannah from Secret Dreamers was included in Best Women’s Monologues of 2019* published by Smith & Krauss. His plays have also been published in Stage It! 2 Thirty 10-Minute Plays*, Door=Jar, and Audience.

HUMORIST: ESSAYS/FICTION

Ed's prose has appeared in The New Croton Review*, Slackjaw, The Bad Day Book*, Bright Flash Literary Review, Fleas on the Dog, Flash Fiction Magazine, Best of Potato Soup Journal 2022*, Wicked Shadow Press*The Haven, Crow’s Feet, Center for Creative Writing, Submittable, and The Bronx Memoir Project Vols. I, III and VI*, Shady Grove Literary and Read650. His play The Keys to Life has been adapted for the screen into a film of the same title by the Northern Virginia Film Co-op.

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