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Jeff Cohen

JEFF COHEN  

 Nationality:    USA
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JeFF COHeN is a director, playwright, an acting teacher and recipient of a Drama Desk award

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below is a list of Jeff Cohen's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Avodan         In these Times-Scenes From the Aftermath Of September 11         Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, The         Men Of Clay         Soap Myth, The         Tartuffe         Uncle Jack

Avodan

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1st Produced:
Taragon Theatre, Toronto, Ontario    1983

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In these Times-Scenes From the Aftermath Of September 11

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Dog Run Repertory theatre Company presents Snapshots '07, a new program of world premiere one-act plays. the following description is from the show's press release: "Snapshots 07 continues the popular Snapshots series of one-acts presented by the Worth Street theater Company. the 2007 edition of Snapshots will include world premieres of First Date by Patrick Blake, two monologues by playwright and novelist Clay McCleod Chapman, Bridesmaid and the Interstate and On, and Jeff Cohen's In these Times-scenes from the aftermath of September 11."
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
S-P-a-C-e Gallery & Performance Space, NY    2007

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Dog Run Repertory Theatre Company

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One act

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Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, The

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This is a new play by Jeff Cohen based on the short story by Christopher Stokes. In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, 23 years old, disappeared among the asmat People of Papua, New Guinea. He was never heard from again. This is the story of what might have happened, told by the asmat people. the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the past 50 years. the Man Who ate Michael Rockefeller takes the audience on a journey to the asmat region of Papua, New Guinea, where cannibalism and head-hunting were still a vital part of centuries-old traditions. at the time of his disappearance, Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, was already a well-respected cultural anthropologist with a deep passion for exploring the unknown. "It's the desire to do something romantic and adventurous," he said, "at a time when frontiers, in the real sense of the word, are disappearing." Michael Rockefeller also knew that Western contact with the "primitive" world was destroying that world. even in 1961, in less remote areas of the region, native peoples were wearing pants and losing their way of life. Rockefeller observed: "the West thinks in terms of bringing advance and opportunity to such a place. In actuality we bring a cultural bankruptcy." a cottage industry has grown up around the incident. Christopher Stokes's story (and Cohen's stage adaptation) turn the tables on this industry, telling the story as the asmats themselves might have told it, and challenging our Western cultural biases.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
West End Theatre, NY    40433

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Dog Run Rep

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Men Of Clay

Synopsis:
a semin-autobiographical comedy by playwright/director Jeff Cohen, Men of Clay is a personal story about the playwright's father set in early 1970s Baltimore. Men of Clay captures summers on the red clay tennis courts of Druid Hil Park, and the camaraderie bewtween the 'men of clay'--Squeaky Cohn and his buddies Ira Farber, Danny Dickler, and Nate askin--along with the era's Jewish culture and racial tensions and the men's penny-pinching schemes and their stubborn resistance to change.
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1st Produced:
Abingdon Theater, 312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570    2006

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the Theatre Outlet

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Genre:
semin-autobiographical comedy

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Soap Myth, The

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In the Soap Myth, a young Jewish journalist and a Holocaust survivor search for evidence in an age of denial, and the truth about the Nazi atrocity of manufacturing soap from the fat of Jewish corpses. along the way, they become entangled in the politics of Holocaust scholarship and Holocaust denial.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
@Seaport!, 210 Front Street, New York, NY 10038    2009

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Dog Run Rep

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Tartuffe

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Tartuffe is one of Moliere's funniest and most controversial comedies. although it was banned by the Church and led to the playwright's imprisonment, Moliere, as he did in many of his comedies, wrote the play as an indictment of the bourgeoisie, not religion. according to director and adapter Jeff Cohen, Tartuffe is a swindler who could have donned the mantle of any role to dupe his victims. That he picked religion in this instance is due to how easily his bourgeois victim-Orgon-is duped by his pious charade. It is Orgon who Moliere is bent on skewering, not the Church. Jeff Cohen's new American adaptation, written in verse and rhyming couplets, sets the play in New York City in an earlier Depression-era-the 1930s. His adaptation seeks to employ a particularly American idiom, transposing Moliere's social satire to its American equivalent. In our own present time of outlandish wealth, dashed fortunes, and George Madoff-like swindlers, what better era to look back on than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moliere spun his comedy from the stock characters of Commedia, and Mr. Cohen spins his from the golden era of American comedians and films.
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Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
@Seaport!, 210 Front Street, New York, NY 10038    2009

Organisations:
Dog Run Rep

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Uncle Jack

Uncle Jack
For me, the very human dilemma at the core of Uncle Jack is summed up in a brief scene near the center of the play. Professor Kaufman has gathered the family together to tell them of his desire to sell the estate; this announcement enrages Jack, who sees in Kaufman's plan connivance and betrayal-this is a frontal assault on the very foundation of Jack's sense of self-worth. He cries out against Kaufman and to his family in real pain. and then-and here's the moment I'm talking about-his mother reaches out and comforts him, cradling his head in her lap, but telling him at the same time that she really thinks that her son-in-law is right. the ineffable sadness of this moment is something we have all known at one time or another; finally, it is the aloneness of Mr. Cohen's characters that makes them resonate so strongly.
nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Worth Street Theatre, New York    1999

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