The Horse's Ass by
A feminist vaudeville for 2 women, a horse mask, a hatrack, and a big pile of carrots.
Megan Cohen
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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* "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.
During her 20-year career, 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.
Recent Work: She is 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. 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."
Education: High school dropout, B.A. Stanford University (Major in Drama.)
Making a Living: As a writer for interactive media, she has created narratives and dialogue for mobile and casual games with over 1 million weekly players. She also uses her 20 years of professional writing experience to support others as a creative consultant for narrative projects and as a one-on-one writing coach.
Twitter: @WayBetterThanTV.
Website: MeganCohen.com.
* "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.
During her 20-year career, 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.
Recent Work: She is 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. 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."
Education: High school dropout, B.A. Stanford University (Major in Drama.)
Making a Living: As a writer for interactive media, she has created narratives and dialogue for mobile and casual games with over 1 million weekly players. She also uses her 20 years of professional writing experience to support others as a creative consultant for narrative projects and as a one-on-one writing coach.
Twitter: @WayBetterThanTV.
Website: MeganCohen.com.