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Alice Eve Cohen is an award-winning playwright, solo theatre artist, and author, whose plays have been performed for over 200,000 people on four continents. Winner of the Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award, the National Jewish Playwriting Contest, a 2025 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting / Screenwriting, and a 2025 NYS Council on the Arts Individual Artist Award, her award-winning play OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR premieres at La MaMa in December, 2025. Her acclaimed memoirs, The Year My Moher Came Back (Algonquin) and What I Thought I Knew (Penguin) are honored with the Elle Magazine Literary Grand Prix for Nonfiction, Oprah magazine's 25 Best  Books of Summer, and Salon's Year's Best Books. She has written children's television for Nickelodeon, CBS, and CTW, and has toured her solo shows internationally. Alice received her BA from Princeton and MFA from The New School Creative Writing Program. She teaches playwriting and Creative Writing at The New School, where she received the Distinguished University Teaching Award. More at www.AliceEveCohen.com

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

Plays on New Play Exchange: In the Cervix of Others Oklahoma Samovar Days of Awe Hannah and the Hollow Challah Mrs. Satan and the Nasty Woman

Excerpts from Cohen's plays are published in: The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2025, Smith & Kraus The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2024, Smith & Kraus The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2022, Smith & Kraus The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022, Smith & Kraus Best Monologues for Women 2020, Applause Theatre Books She Persisted: 100 Monologues by Women Over 40, Applause Theatre Book Words of Choice: Repro Freedom Arts

Memoirs: The Year My Mother Came Back (Algonquin Books, 2015) What I Thought I Knew (Penguin Books, 2009)