STEPHEN BROWN-FRIED

Amy Hill as Cymbeline

“The National Asian American Theater Company’s production, using a lucid modern verse translation by Andrea Thome, is frankly a delight: funny, absorbing, even affecting. And with not a single man among its wonderfully strong cast, it has both a sense of frolic in satirizing macho pride and an in-the-bones understanding of male menace.”

- Laura Collins-Hughes, THE NEW YORK TIMES on CYMBELINE

“This company's exchanges blaze with emotional clarity and dramatic surprise.”

- SEVEN DAYS on KING LEAR

“A spectacular staging, including times that are genuinely unnerving, but nothing deflects or detracts from the power of Shakespeare’s words. This is powerful theater.”

- THE RUTLAND HERALD on KING LEAR

“A complex, majestic triumph”

- THE HERALD OF RANDOLPH on KING LEAR

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"Fast-paced and gripping, this is an unusually lucid staging of a bloody history play"

- NY TIMES on HENRY VI

"Brutal, compelling, and shrewd, this is American Shakespeare at its most epic and alive."

- THEATRE IS EASY on HENRY VI

"Disorientation may be the ideal way to liberate an audience. In his bold vision of Macbeth, director Stephen Brown-Fried uses surprise to help viewers see the play anew. Northern Stage's production is not merely a modern-dress spin on a classic but a novel way to experience its emotional depth."

- SEVEN DAYS on MACBETH

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"Director Stephen Fried’s fine-tuned production maintains a riveting naturalism. Whether the characters are the central focus, or off to the side just listening, there are no false moves here."

- ROMA TORRE on AWAKE AND SING!

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"Richard does not work without a director who is keenly aware of the villainous intricacies of Shakespeare’s first outstanding drama, and an actor able to embody the “deformity” of the play’s antihero. Brown-Fried and Blake Hackler fill both requirements admirably."

- THEATREJONES on RICHARD III

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"In a year in which it seemed that everyone was staging the already played out MUCH ADO, Stephen Fried created the most original, warm and completely straightforward masterpiece of the season. Everything from costumes and sound to selfless, ensemble acting was top-notch and adoringly crafted. It is not often that this admittedly jaded―some might say snobby―reviewer is given chills and brought to tears of delight during a play. I practically levitated from the enchantment of this show, and I do not think that I was alone in that sentiment."

- THEATREJONES on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

"Stephen Brown-Fried is a brilliant director from classics to contemporary work. But with Shakespeare he reveals the purest balance between master distiller and amazing alchemist."

- Alexandra Bonifield, CRITICALRANT.COM

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

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AWAKE AND SING! at the PUBLIC THEATER

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AWAKE AND SING!

Transient

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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

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WELCOME TO AMERICA

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THE TROJAN WOMEN

SHAKESPEARE'S R&J

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

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HENRY IV, PART I

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LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

THE BOY JUMPED INTO THE SEA

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