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AMY FREED

AMY

FREED

Amy Freed is the author of Shrew!, The Monster Builder, Restoration Comedy, The Beard of Avon, Freedomland, Safe in Hell, The Psychic Life of Savages, You, Nero, and other plays. She's a recipient of the Charles McArthur Playwriting Award (D.C.), The New York Arts Club's Joseph Kesselring Award, a several-times winner of the LA Critic's Circle Award, and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Her work has been produced at South Coast Repertory Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, Yale Rep, California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman, Playwright's Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, Arena Stage and other theaters around the country. She has been a playwriting resident at South Coast Rep, Arena Stage, and The Old Globe. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University.

NEW PLAYS BY

AMY FREED

THE MONSTER BUILDER

In The Monster Builder, an architect from hell (literally) takes pleasure in creating chaos, whether by turning a little boathouse into a monstrosity or by designing his masterwork, the menacing Abu Dhabi Tower of Justice and Interrogation. But when he casually steals a career-making project from two fledgling architects, they decide to challenge this monster builder at his own game. The Portland Oregonian called it “a wild and witty play.” The San Francisco Chronicle described it as “equal parts sharp satire, broad farce, comedy noir and play of ideas” and praised Freed’s “near-Shavian skill in integrating her ideas into her plot.”


An examination of the cult of personality, the dangers of ambition, and the horrors of deconstructivist theory applied to actual design, this “entertaining architectural morality tale” (L.A. Times) speaks to the importance of place and of the true function of architecture at its humane best.

AMY FREED
AMY FREED
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