Freda Rosen (September 7, 1945 – July 17, 2007) was an American playwright, director, political activist, life coach, social therapist and mentor to prominent choreographers including Bill T. Jones, Arthur Aviles and Amy Pivar.
[2][3][4] Born in the Bronx and a longtime resident of Manhattan's Upper West Side, Freda Rosen was a political activist in the gay liberation and democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rosen's crown achievement was her psychotherapy practice in New York City where she conducted group, individual and couples sessions for over 10 years.
It included esteemed clients like MacArthur Genius award-winners Bill T. Jones (celebrated choreographer) and Majora Carter (executive director of Sustainable South Bronx), as well as many community leaders, political organizers and artists like Academy Award Nominated filmmakers of Trouble the Water, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, and choreographer Arthur Aviles and writer Charles Rice-González who co-founded BAAD!
The group began building new kinds of institutions: free schools, community-based health clinics and psychotherapy centers.