Ed Friedman

Ed Friedman (born January 12, 1950) is an American poet and playwright.

Friedman was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied literature at the University of California at San Diego. and soon after enrolled in one of Bernadette Mayer's workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery. From this came the magazine Unnatural Acts, with collaborative contents presented anonymously, which Mayer and Friedman put out from 1972 to 1973.

Friedman has given readings and performances at the Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, and The Public Theater, among other venues. He has collaborated with visual artist Robert Kushner – whose hat designs worn by models descending a spiral staircase were accompanied by Friedman's poetry, published in The New York Hat Line (1979), and who designed the settings for Friedman's 1982 play The White Snake Chinoiserie (play, music by Peter Gordon, 1977) The New York Hat Line (with Robert Kushner and Katherine Landman, 1979) New York: Bozeaux of London Press.