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Alice Eve Cohen is a playwright, author, solo theatre artist, and proud recipient of The New School 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. She won the 2019 Jane Chambers feminist Playwriting Award for her play In the Cervix of Others, which will be featured at the 2021 International Women Playwrights Conference in Montreal, and her plays have been performed for over 250,000 people on four continents. Her first memoir, What I Though I Knew (Viking), won the Elle Literary Grand Prix for Nonfiction and Oprah Magazine's 25 Best Books of summer; her solo theatre adaptation of the memoir has been produced nationally, and the book been optioned for a feature film. Cohen's books are published by Penguin and Algonquin and her plays and monologues are published by NoPassport Press and Applause Theatre Books. She has written children's television for Nickelodeon, CTW, and CBS. In addition to teaching creative writing and playwriting at The New School, she teaches at Augsburg University's Creative Writing MFA program and is a guest artist at University of Michigan. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and a BA in anthropology and theatre from Princeton University. Visit her at www.AliceEveCohen.com

Degrees Held

MFA in Creative Writing, The New School

BA, Princeton University

Certificate in Screenwriting, School for Media Studies

Certificate in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) The New School

Professional Affiliation

Ensemble Studio Theatre (lifetime member)

EST Playwrights Unit

Authors Guild

Dramatists Guild

Usual Suspect, New York Theatre Workshop

Honor Roll! (women playwrights over 40)

Recent Publications

Plays recently published on the New Play Exchange include:

IN THE CERVIX OF OTHERS,

MRS. SATAN & THE NASTY WOMAN,

OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR,

DAYS OF AWE,

HANNAH AND THE HOLLOW CHALLAH,

"Sunday Arrival" short essay in The New York Times, 2019

What I Thought I Knew and Other Plays by Alice Eve Cohen, NoPassport Press (2017)

"When the Moon Fit in My Window" essay published in anthology, "The House That Made Me: Writers Reflect on the Places and People that Defined Them" published by SparkPress 2016

The Year My Mother Came Back, a memoir, Algonquin Books (2015)

Performances and Appearances

Cohen's plays have received performances, readings, and critically acclaimed productions at numerous venues, including (partial list)

The Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca),

Jewish Repertory Theatre of Western NY (Buffalo),

Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (St Paul),

2021 Women Playwrights International Conference in Montreal, CA,

ATHE 2019 Conference (Association of Theatre in Higher Education) in Orlando,

Princeton University,

University of Michigan,

American Opera Projects,

Primary Stages ESPA,

Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit,

New York Theatre Workshop,

New Georges,

Hudson Opera House,

International festivals and theatres in Israel, Norway, Trinidad, Scotland, and Ireland,

Panel moderator/organizer/participant:

Princeton University She Roars Conference; 

AWP Conferences (Associated Writing Programs) in DC, LA, Portland Oregon, and San Antonio;

The New School Creative Writing Program guest author / interviewee

Guest writer and faculty:

Augsburg University MFA Creative Writing Program

University of Michigan

Pace College

University of Arizona Desert Nights Creative Writing Conference in, Tempe, Arizona.

Workshops and courses include (partial list)

Writers Gym

Playwriting from Personal Experience

Creative Nonfiction

Intro to Playwriting

Fiction

Memoir

Personal Essay

Documentary theatre

Writing protest plays

Writing With All Five Senses

One Story, Two Points of View: Writing from Multiple Perspectives

Writing Monologue: How Language Defines Character

Writing what you know AND what you imagine

Solo Theatre

Oral History

Memoir

Writers Gym

Playwriting from Personal Experience

Writing from Myth

Research Interests

Solo Theatre, documentary theatre, political theatre, 20th century theatre and performance art, plays and playwrights, memoir, fiction, feminism, the intersection of ageism and sexism

Awards And Honors

AWARDS INCLUDE:

* 2020 DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD, The New School

* 2019 JANE CHAMBERS PLAYWRITING AWARD winner

* O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2-time finalist
* ELLE Magazine Literary Grand Prize: Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year
* Oprah magazine 25 BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER
* SALON.COM, Best Books of the Year

* Nominated for 5 Broadway World Awards, including Best Play
* Indie Next List Notables
* VCCA Fellow
* JANE CHAMBERS Playwriting Award, 2016 Honorable Mention
* Playwriring Fellowships, NYS Council on the Arts

* Literature Fellowship, NYS Council on the Arts

* Production grants NYS Council on the Arts and NEA
* A Year of Reading: Best First Lines of 2015
* 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015, The Winnsboro News (Texas)