Freedomland is a 1998 comedy play written by Amy Freed. The plot revolves around the family reunion of the Underfingers gone wrong. It was finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama."Pulitzer Prize Drama" pulitzer.org, accessed November 9, 2015"Drama's Amy Freed a Pulitzer finalist" Stanford Report, April 15, 1998
Freedomland was produced Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, running from December 16, 1998, to January 3, 1999. Directed by Howard Shalwitz, the cast featured Veanne Cox, Jeffrey Donovan, and Heather Goldenhersh."Freedomland Off-Broadway" lortel.org, accessed January 1, 2016 The "darkly satiric comedy" premiered at the South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, in November 1997. The title is based on the "name of a Wild West theme park in the Bronx, where Freed grew up."Simonson, Robert and Lefkowitz, David. "Playwrights Horizons Ventures To Freed's 'Freedomland' Nov. 27" Playbill, November 26, 1998
See also Freedomland U.S.A., the former Bronx theme park
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