ALICE EVE COHEN is a playwright, solo theatre artist, and author. Her plays have been presented at theatres, festivals and schools internationally. Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Playwriting Contest for Oklahoma Samovar and the 2019 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for In the Cervix of Others. Her first memoir What I Thought I Knew (Viking) won  the Elle Literary Grand Prix for Nonfiction, Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and Salon's Best Books of the Year. Her solo play What I Thought I Knew has been produced nationally, garnering critical acclaim and honors; an O'Neill National Conference finalist and Jane Chambers Honorable Mention awardee, it has been nominated for six regional Broadway World Awards.

She has written television for Nickelodeon, CTW, and CBS, and for numerous print and online publications. Alice has led theater and playwriting workshops for children, teens, and teachers in hundreds of schools around the country, and her writing about arts in education has been published in nine languages. She has been a frequent guest artist at the University of Michigan, and was a writer-in-residence for two years at the Frank McCourt High School for Writing and Journalism. Her plays have been presented at venues including (partial list): The Kitchen Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The New Georges, Dance Theatre Workshop, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Here Arts Center, The Women’s Project, Hudson Opera House, Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Barnard College, Princeton University, University of Michigan.  (International) Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Galway Theatre Festival, Jerusalem’s Theatre Bama, Trinidad’s Astor Theatre, Oslo Theatre Festival.

She is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, EST Playwrights Unit, and New York Theatre Workshop's Usual Suspects. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she has a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from The New School. Alice teaches creative writing and playwriting at Augsburg University's MFA Creative Writing Program and the undergraduate Creative Writing Program of The New School, where she received the 2020 University Distinguished Teaching Award. She lives in New York City. Visit her at www.AliceEveCohen.com

Website: www.AliceEveCohen.com

Twitter Username: @AliceEveCohen

Publications

• What I Thought I Knew and Other Plays by Alice Eve Cohen , NoPassport Press (April 2017)
• THE YEAR MY MOTHER CAME BACK, a memoir , Algonquin Books (audiobook by Highbridge/Recorded Books) (March 31, 2015)
• WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW, a memoir , Viking / Penguin (May 10, 2009)
• The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022 , Smith & Kraus (2022)
• The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2022 , Smith & Kraus (2022)
• She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty , Applause Theatre and Cinema Books (2021)
• The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays 2020 , Applause Theatre and Cinema Books (2021)

Awards

• 10th Annual National Jewish Playwriting Contest(2021)
• Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award(2019)
• Distinguished University Teaching Award, The New School(2020)
• Elle Literary Grand Prize for Nonfiction(2009)
• Oprah magazine 25 Best Books of Summer(2009)
• Salon Best Books of the Year(2009)
• Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship(2022)
• Poets & Writers Awards
• NYS Council on the Arts, playwriting fellowship
• Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention
• Emmy Award Special Commendation

Employment

• Associate Teaching Professor PT at The New School Creative Writing Program (September 1999 - )
• MFA mentor: playwriting and creative nonfiction at Augsburg University MFA Program in Creative Writing (January 2020 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Theatre from Princeton University
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The New School

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Children's literature , Poetry