Faculty

Profile

Marya Cohn is a writer /director and professor of screenwriting. Her narrative feature screenplay, Sunny Day Flooding, is currently in development. She wrote and directed the feature film The Girl in the Book, starring Emily Van Camp and Michael Nyqvist, which is currently available on Netflix itunes and Amazon.  The short film she wrote and directed,  Developing, starring Natalie Portman and Frances Conroy, screened at Sundance, won grand prizes at the Belgian Festival Mondial du Cinéma de Court Métrage and the St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival, and aired on The Sundance Channel and Channel 13’s Reel NY. She has also directed plays at The Here Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Dixon Place, Vital Theater, HB Playwrights’ Foundation and Theater, The Women’s Project, New Georges, NADA 45, and the playwrights’ unit at EST. Marya teaches screenwriting at The New School and City College and is a filmmaking mentor at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ non-residential MFA program in film. She received her MFA from NYU’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television and her BA from Harvard University. 

Degrees Held

BA and MFA in filmmaking

Professional Affiliation

Film Fatales, New York Women in Film, Independent Film Project