Megan Cohen
* " A ruthless innovator" (SF Weekly)
* "One insightful and confident woman with a devilish sense of humor" (Huffington Post)
* "In the sui generis mind of theater artist Megan Cohen, silliness intermingles with oh-no-she-didn’t moxie; searing smarts blend seamlessly with surreal reverie and a bottomless capacity for feeling" (San Francisco Chronicle)
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* " A ruthless innovator" (SF Weekly)
* "One insightful and confident woman with a devilish sense of humor" (Huffington Post)
* "In the sui generis mind of theater artist Megan Cohen, silliness intermingles with oh-no-she-didn’t moxie; searing smarts blend seamlessly with surreal reverie and a bottomless capacity for feeling" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Megan Cohen (b. 1983) is a playwright and opera librettist based in San Francisco, CA where she is a resident playwright at Playwrights Foundation. She is currently under commission for Houston Grand Opera's HGOco "Song of Houston" initiative to write the libretto for TURN AND BURN, a new full-length chamber opera about cowgirl culture and the lives of female athletes in contemporary rodeo (World Premiere 2022 in Houston, TX). Her world premiere play FREE FOR ALL: A NEW MISS JULIE FOR A NEW WORLD (2019) was commissioned by and produced at Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco and was lauded as "The Best Party At The End of the World" in KQED's "Best Bay Area Theater of 2019." Cohen's more-than-one-hundred texts for performance have been developed or performed in the US, UK, and Australia with partners including Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, the Neo-Futurists, and Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. She was a high school dropout who went on to become a proud graduate of Stanford University (BA, Drama with Honors).
Twitter: @WayBetterThanTV. Website: MeganCohen.com.