Ian Cohen

Playwright @Independent Entertainment Professional

New York, NY, US

Full-length plays include BERTRAND PRIEST, winner of the 2006 Kaufman & Hart Award for New American Comedy, and subsequently produced at Arkansas Rep in 2007. LENNY & LOU, world premiere, September 2004, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, D.C. Nominated, Charles MacArthur Award for Best Play and Best Resident Play as part of the Helen Hayes Awards. Also nominated, American Theatre Critic’s Association’s New Play Award. OLD WOUNDS, semi-finalist Ashland New Plays Festival 2016. HE WHO LAUGHS, workshop, Yale Off-Broadway Theater, JCC Theaterworks, New Haven, CT, December 2013; Citation, Jerry Kaufman Award, 2014. VATTAGO, featured at undergroundzero, PS 122, selected as a PlayLabs Playwrights Center semi-finalist and winner of the Jerry Kaufman Award, 2011. JEFFERSON STREET, finalist Playreading Contest, UK, staged reading at NYU Studio Tisch. GOD’S CREATURES, semi-finalist, Stageplays’ International Playwrights Competition. LITTLE UNIVERSE, screenplay, semi-finalist Scriptapalooza International Screenplay Competition. Other plays include THE DESERT, Honorable Mention, Crossing Borders/Approaching Millennium New Play Contest, Wharf Rat Theater. LUNA PARK, Runner-up, Jewish Ensemble Theatre Spring Festival of New Plays, One-Act plays include THE AUTHORIZED PRACTITIONER, Gallery Players New Play Festival, 2016; FANTASY, Summer Play Festival 2007, The Workshop, film, co-directed by the author and Joe Leonard for Blatantly Subtle Productions; FUCKIN WORK, Summer Play Festival 2004, The Workshop; GOING, The Workshop, semi-finalist, Chutzpah Festival, Manhattan Punchline. Published, 2006, Playscripts, Inc. Ian’s plays have been developed at The Lark, which he has called home since