Cole Friedman (he/him/his) is an LA-based writer and performer, formerly a DC-based teacher and toy store employee. His plays include Follow The Bear (2020 ScreenCraft Semi-Finalist, National Theater Institute), Mer and Cris Catch Up Over Zoom (Homesick Play Project), BOOM (Make/Shift Theater), and my father is always dying (Make/Shift Theater), all of which you can read on New Play Exchange. He is currently a member of EST/LA’s New West Playwrights 2024 cohort. On the screenwriting side, he is a 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist for his feature, Good Youth.

Cole received his BA in Psychology and Theater from Tufts University in 2021, graduating summa cum laude and earning the Moses True Brown Prize for Dramatic Criticism and the Jane Anne Herman Newton Award for Directing upon graduation. While at Tufts, he served as the Playwright in Residence for UnTrue to Form, a student theater organization dedicated to new work. Additionally, he is an alum of the Kennedy Center Directing Intensive and the National Musical Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

For his resume or to get in contact with Cole, you can email colebfriedman@gmail.com