THE VALUE OF NAMES - by Jeffrey Sweet /With : *Mitchell Fields, *Marc Moritz , Neely Gevaart /*Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association at CANCELLED

MARTIN E. FRIEDMAN, PH.D. (Artistic Director/Director/Producer). Martin Friedman has been an adjunct instructor in theater arts and communications at Lakeland Community College since 1998, and at Baldwin Wallace University since 2010, and he recently retired from John Carroll University where he taught theater since 1988. Last year, Friedman directed his 51st and 52nd productions at Lakeland Civic Theatre which included the local premiere of “Freaky Friday.” Most recently Friedman directed two stage readings, “Blithe Spirit” and “The Heidi Chronicles” at Baldwin Wallace University and presented a master class on “Stephen Sondheim and ‘Merrily We Roll Along’” for Nighttown’s Master Class Series on the Arts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to great acclaim. Friedman’s recent directing and producing credits include “If/Then,” “Freaky Friday,” “Inspector General,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “The Bridges of Madison County,“ “The Last Five Years,” “Violet,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “Next to Normal,” “Boeing Boeing,” “Proof,” “November,” “Assassins,” “The Ideal Husband,” “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Noises Off,” “The Imaginary Invalid,” “Cabaret,” “The Miser,” “She Loves Me,” “Diary of Anne Frank,” “Plaza Suite,” “I Hate Hamlet,” “A Little Night Music,” “Company,” “Death of a Salesman,” “Measure for Measure,” “Into the Woods,” “All My Sons,” “Blithe Spirit,” “Brighton Beach Memories,” “Plaza Suite”, “Sylvia,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Born Yesterday,” “Putting it Together,” “Peter Pan,” and “Crimes of the Heart.”

Jeffrey Sweet's plays—including Porch, The Value of Names, and Routed—have been presented off-Broadway, internationally, and in a variety of regional and developmental theatres. His American Enterprises won the American Theatre Critics Association Award for play-writing. His book for the musical What About Luv? won the Outer Critics Circle Award, and he is the author of the book and co-author (with composer Melissa Manchester) of the lyrics for the musical I Sent a Letter to My Love. Sweet has written drama, sitcom, miniseries, and TV movies for ABC, NBC, and CBS. His work has won the Writers Guild of America Award and been nominated twice for the Emmy.