Meryl Cohn's awards include: Semifinalist (twice) for the O’Neill National Playwriting Award (And Sophie Comes Too and Reasons to Live); The ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (The Siegels of Montauk); The Eventide Arts Jeremiah Kaplan Award (The Final Say); finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Award (Naked With Fruit); Jane Chambers Runner up (The Final Say); Eventide Arts Finalist (The Fade-Away Advantage); Lark Theatre semifinalist; Curve Magazine Lesbian Theatre Award (And Sophie Comes Too).Her play Reasons to Live was voted Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times.
Meryl’s work has been produced or developed at The Skylight Theatre, The Open Fist Theatre, TOSOS, N.Y. International Fringe Festival, The Fringe Festival Encore Series, The Provincetown Theatre, W.H...
Meryl Cohn's awards include: Semifinalist (twice) for the O’Neill National Playwriting Award (And Sophie Comes Too and Reasons to Live); The ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (The Siegels of Montauk); The Eventide Arts Jeremiah Kaplan Award (The Final Say); finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Award (Naked With Fruit); Jane Chambers Runner up (The Final Say); Eventide Arts Finalist (The Fade-Away Advantage); Lark Theatre semifinalist; Curve Magazine Lesbian Theatre Award (And Sophie Comes Too).Her play Reasons to Live was voted Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times.
Meryl’s work has been produced or developed at The Skylight Theatre, The Open Fist Theatre, TOSOS, N.Y. International Fringe Festival, The Fringe Festival Encore Series, The Provincetown Theatre, W.H.A.T., The Soho Playhouse, Counter Productions, The Road Theatre, and Smith College, among others.
She earned her MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She founded the Northampton Playwrights Lab and is a member of TOSOS, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. She also writes fiction and non-fiction and is the author of the humor book DO WHAT I SAY: MS. BEHAVIOR’S GUIDE TO GAY AND LESBIAN ETIQUETTE, published by Houghton Mifflin.