[1][2][3] He directed numerous plays[4] at the Bellflower Theater Company and is co-founder and artistic director of the Long Beach Repertory Theatre.

[7][8] In 2002, Variety wrote the film is "An enjoyable and entertainingly cast fable about love, death and fitting revenge, "Plots With a View" strikes a near-miraculous balance between the silly and the morbid.

The Los Angeles Times notes: Director Fred Ponzlov, who guided the recently closed "The Cherry Orchard" at the New Community Theatre of Irvine, says he is in love with the play.

"[11] and LA Weekly theater critics wrote "Gifted with gravitas and eloquence, the four graveyard-shift journalists in Pulitzer finalist Will Eno's sharp satire on round-the-clock spin are honing panic that the sun has set and may never rise again",[12] Of his performance in Much Ado at the 1978 Colorado Shakespeare Festival, where director Edgar Reynolds reset the original Shakespeare play Much Ado about Nothing into the American Southwest, William Babula of Shakespeare Quarterly wrote the character of "Dogberry was played as the 'gringo', a somewhat anachronistic Texan with badge, six-guns, cowboy hat, spurs, and drawl.

The role was handled admirably by Frederick Ponzlov, and it was amusing to observe the working-class Mexicans of the 'Watch' trying to make sense of the 'gringo' before deciding he was a fool.".