Alice Eve Cohen is a playwright, solo theatre artist, and memoirist. Her plays and solo works have been presented on four continents for over 200,000 people. She won the 2021 National Jewish Playwriting Contest for Oklahoma Samovar and received the 2019 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for In the Cervix of Others. Other plays include Hotel Limbo, What I Thought I Knew, Mrs. Satan & The Nasty Woman, Thin Walls, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, The Year My Mother Came Back, The Abortion Doctor Who Saved Our Lives, Hannah and the Hollow Challah, Goliath on 74th Street vs. the Woman Who Loved Vegetables, and The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter.

Her plays have been presented at theatres including: The Kitchen Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop (Mondays @ 3, Just Add Water and O Solo Mio festivals), New Georges, Six Points Theatre, Here Arts Center, All for One Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Theatre for the New City, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Ko Festival, Jewish Repertory Theatre of Western NY, The Women’s Project, The Performing Garage, Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Hudson Opera House, KiMo Theatre, Theatre for the New City, RVCC Arts, Dance Theatre Workshop, Artscape, Proctors Theatre, University of Michigan, Fordham University, University of Baltimore, Smithsonian Institution, Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility; and at theatres and festivals in Scotland, Ireland, Israel, Trinidad, Norway, and Canada.

Cohen is the author of two memoirs: The Year My Mother Came Back (Algonquin Books); and What I Thought I Knew (Viking, Penguin), winner of the Elle Literary Grand Prize, Oprah magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and Salon Year’s Best Books. She has written children’s television for Nickelodeon and CBS, her plays are published by NoPassport Press, and her monologues are published in Smith & Kraus’s The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2022, The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022, and Applause Books The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays 2020. A two-time finalist for the O’Neill, a finalist for the McKnight National Residency and Ashland New Play Festival, and recipient of an Emmy Special Commendation, she has received fellowships and grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the NEA, Meet the Composer, and Poets & Writers. Her work has been developed through artist fellowships and residencies with the Orchard Project, Voice & Vision’s Envision Retreat, American Opera Projects, and VCCA (Virginia Center for Creative Arts.) She is the founding editor of Play by Play, Theatre Development Fund’s theatre journal written by and for teens.

A proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the EST Playwrights Unit, New York Theatre Workshop’s Usual Suspects, Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, and Honor Roll! Cohen received an MFA from The New School and a BA cum laude from Princeton University. She is on the faculty of the Augsburg University low-residency MFA Program and The New School Creative Writing Program, where she received the 2020 Distinguished University Teaching Award.

Website: www.AliceEveCohen.com

Contact: aliceevecohen@gmail.com

Agent: Elaine@EDevlinlit.com

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