Stuck With Fred

by Timothy Nolan

In Stuck With Fred, Hilly needs to stay sober to keep her job, but AA makes her feel her life is worthless. When Fred, a nasty, ornery man thirty years her senior asks for a ride home, she sees maybe a distant light of friendship. Despite her best efforts, Hilly learns that what separates her from life may just be what connects her to Fred and maybe to her own reason for living.

In Stuck With Fred, Hilly needs to stay sober to keep her job, but AA makes her feel her life is worthless. When Fred, a nasty, ornery man thirty years her senior asks for a ride home, she sees maybe a distant light of friendship. Despite her best efforts, Hilly learns that what separates her from life may just be what connects her to Fred and maybe to her own reason for living.

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Stuck With Fred

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  • Marylou DiPietro: Stuck With Fred by Timothy Nolan
    “

    I just saw Tim Nolan's play, Stuck with Fred, in The Road Theatre Festival, and was blown away. The humanity in Nolan's play is riveting and humbling. The depth and vulnerability of the two main characters are both heartbreaking and refreshing. Stuck with Fred (the perfect title!) speaks to anyone who has had a much older friend, or a much younger friend, or any friend who understands and loves them in a way no one else can or ever will. This is a play that needs to be staged over and over.

    I just saw Tim Nolan's play, Stuck with Fred, in The Road Theatre Festival, and was blown away. The humanity in Nolan's play is riveting and humbling. The depth and vulnerability of the two main characters are both heartbreaking and refreshing. Stuck with Fred (the perfect title!) speaks to anyone who has had a much older friend, or a much younger friend, or any friend who understands and loves them in a way no one else can or ever will. This is a play that needs to be staged over and over.

    ”

Development History

  • Reading, AMT Theater, 2024
  • Workshop, Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Workshop, 2021
  • Reading, Actors Studio Drama School MFA Playwriting, 2020

Production History

Awards

  • New Works Festival
    Garry Marshall Theater
    Semi-Finalist