Jeff Cohen (playwright and theater director)
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Jeff Cohen is an American theater director and playwright.
, the setting for his play, Men of Clay..
Cohen plays include The Soap Myth
, Men Of Clay (Best New Play 2005 - Baltimore City Paper
), and adaptations of Chekhov including The Seagull: The Hamptons, (with various casts including Tammy Grimes
, D. B. Sweeney
, Neil Huff, Marin Hinkle
, and Laura Linney
's stage debut in 1990), Uncle Jack (published in Playing With Canons).
Award-winning and notable Cohen productions include Four by Christopher Shinn
(Lortel Award), the revival of The Normal Heart
(Best Revival, The Public Theater - Drama Desk nomination), The Mystery of Attraction, by Marlene Meyer
(Obie Award
), The Moonlight Room, (Outer Critics nomination, 2 Lortel nominations), and The Tribeca Playhouse Stage Door Canteen (special 2002 Drama Desk Award).
Cohen's new play The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, based on the short story by Christopher Stokes, had its world premiere in an Off Broadway production at the West End Theatre in New York, directed by Alfred Preisser, from September 10-October 3,2010. The production was thereafter transferred intact to the ArcLight Theater in Manhattan where it ran from February 9 to March 13, 2011.
Biography
Cohen grew up in a house across from in the Liberty Heights neighborhood of BaltimoreBaltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, the setting for his play, Men of Clay..
Career
Cohen is the founder and artistic director of Dog Run Repertory Company, and was the artistic director and founder of The Tribeca Playhouse, the Worth Street Theater Company, and The RAPP Arts Center (now the Connelly Theatre).Cohen plays include The Soap Myth
The Soap Myth
The Soap Myth is a 2009 play by American playwright Jeff Cohen. The play had a workshop run in July 2009 at the Dog Run Repertory Company, and had an Off-Broadway run in the fall of 2009.-Description:...
, Men Of Clay (Best New Play 2005 - Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper is a free alternative weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1977 by Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch. Current owner Times-Shamrock Communications purchased the paper in 1987...
), and adaptations of Chekhov including The Seagull: The Hamptons, (with various casts including Tammy Grimes
Tammy Grimes
-Early life:Grimes was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eola Willard , a naturalist and spiritualist, and Nicholas Luther Grimes, an innkeeper, country-club manager, and farmer. She attended high school at the then-all girls school, Beaver Country Day School, in Chestnut Hill,...
, D. B. Sweeney
D. B. Sweeney
Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney is an American actor.-Early life:Sweeney was born on Long Island, New York and raised in Shoreham by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High School and both Tulane and New York University...
, Neil Huff, Marin Hinkle
Marin Hinkle
Marin Elizabeth Hinkle is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing the role of Judith Harper-Melnick, Alan Harper's ex-wife on the hit series Two and a Half Men and her role as Judy Brooks the sister of the series lead Lily Manning on Once and Again.-Career:Hinkle started her career on...
, and Laura Linney
Laura Linney
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award...
's stage debut in 1990), Uncle Jack (published in Playing With Canons).
Award-winning and notable Cohen productions include Four by Christopher Shinn
Christopher Shinn
Christopher Shinn is an American playwright. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1975 and currently lives in New York. His plays have been produced around the world.-Life:...
(Lortel Award), the revival of The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay Jewish-American founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group...
(Best Revival, The Public Theater - Drama Desk nomination), The Mystery of Attraction, by Marlene Meyer
Marlene Meyer
-Positions Held:Law & Order: Criminal Intent Paris enquêtes criminelles CSI: Crime Scene Investigation*Hyperion Bay*Now and Again*Sirens*Better Off Dead*Prison Stories: Women on the Inside...
(Obie Award
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
), The Moonlight Room, (Outer Critics nomination, 2 Lortel nominations), and The Tribeca Playhouse Stage Door Canteen (special 2002 Drama Desk Award).
Cohen's new play The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, based on the short story by Christopher Stokes, had its world premiere in an Off Broadway production at the West End Theatre in New York, directed by Alfred Preisser, from September 10-October 3,2010. The production was thereafter transferred intact to the ArcLight Theater in Manhattan where it ran from February 9 to March 13, 2011.