Fred is widely represented on Northeast Ohio stages through diverse projects, garnering numerous honors and awards, a few of which are listed here: A Little Night Music at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (7 Times Tribute Awards including "Best Musical Theatre Production" and "Best Director") Baby at TrueNorth Cultural Arts (10 Times Tribute Awards, including “Best Musical” and "Best Direction"), Yellowman at Karamu Performing Arts Theatre (Chagrin News Herald – "Best Director," 7 Times Tribute Awards, including "Best Play" and "Best Director"), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Beck Center for the Arts (8 Times Tribute Awards, including "Best Musical" and "Best Director"), Ragtime, the musical at the Jewish Community Center (Cleveland Theatre Collective Critic’s Choice Awards – "Best Musical" and "Best Director"), Fiddler on the Roof at Cain Park (6 Times Tribute Awards, including "Best Musical" and "Best Director"), The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife at Dobama Theatre (Chagrin Valley Times critic Herb Hammer - "Best Production"), Man of La Mancha at the JCC Halle Theatre (5 Times Tribute Awards, including "Best Musical" and "Best Director"), Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night at Beck Center (Cleveland Scene ‘Best of Cleveland’ Award as "Best Musical"), The Sound of Music at Cain Park (Times Tribute Award for "Best Director"). The Cleveland Scene Magazine also honored Fred as ‘Best Theatrical Dynamo’ in 2002.

Other selected credits: The Bluest Eye at Karamu House Theatre, Company, Les Miserables: School Edition, Children of Eden, Into the Woods, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Eat (It's Not About Food) and The Odd Couple at FPAC, Underneath the Lintel at Cesear’s Forum, West Side Story, The Miracle Worker, The Fantasticks & Steel Magnolias at TrueNorth Cultural Arts, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at Dobama Theatre, A Shayna Maidel, Jolson and Company, Modern Orthodox, Rags, From Door to Door, South Pacific, The God of Isaac, Beau Jest, Crossing Delancey, The Twilight of the Golds, The Immigrant and Conversations With My Father for the Cleveland JCC, Gruesome Playground Injuries & Bad Seed at Ensemble Theatre, Amadeus at Willoughby Fine Arts, Table Settings, Isn’t It Romantic, The Diary of Anne Frank and Broadway Bound at JCC Center Stage in Seattle, Peter Pan (1987 and 2008), On the Town, Of Mice and Men, La Cage aux Folles, Foxfire, Noises Off, Children of a Lesser God and The Importance of Being Earnest at Beck Center, Proof at Geauga Lyric Theatre and All My Sons and Enter Laughing at the Dallas Jewish Community Center.

Upcoming projects: The King and I for Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute (July, 2013).

Fred is also the founder and owner of the Northeast Ohio Performing Arts List (NEOhioPAL), an award winning online free news service that currently serves over 7,000 subscribers.