Alice Eve Cohen

Alice Eve Cohen is a memoirist, solo theatre artist, and playwright. Her memoir, What I Thought I Knew (Viking /​ Penguin, 2009) won the Elle's Lettres 2009 Grand Prix for Nonfiction, it was selected as one of Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer and Salon's Best Books of the Year. She has written for Nickelodeon, CTW, and CBS, and has toured her solo shows and plays to theatres, festivals and schools, nationally and internationally. Her writing about arts in education has been published in nine languages, and she has written for various print and online publications. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a 2011 Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow, and an artist in residence at the Voice & Vision Envision Retreat. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from The New School. She teaches at The New School, and lives with her family in New York City.