ALICE EVE COHEN Author, Playwright, Solo Theatre Artist

Book launch, Corner Book Store, 2015; Photographer: Eliana Cohen-Orth

At Tempe AZ Writers Conference 2017, photographer: Kevin S. Moul

Hiking in Sedona

At Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

In Tuscany

At Lincoln Center Out of Doors

Literary Agent

Sally Wofford-Girand
Union Literary
30 Vandam St. Suite 5A
New York, NY 10013
212-255-2112
swg@unionliterary.com

Theatrical Literary Agent

Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.
1115 Broadway, 12th floor
New York, NY 10010
212-842-9030
elaine@edevlinlit.com

Publicist

Theatre press agent:

John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency

347-416-3881 | hello@everymanagency.com

https://www.everymanagency.com/

Theatre publicist:

Crystal Patriarche
CEO and President | Booksparks
crystal@booksparkspr.com| 480.650.1688
Web: GoBookSparks.com

Contact

Selected Works: Memoir; Plays, Solo Theater, Teaching; Articles and Interviews

Plays

OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR, HOTEL LIMBO, IN THE CERVIX OF OTHERS, THE YEAR MY MOTHER CAME BACK, THIN WALLS, and other plays

OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR, winner of 2021 National Jewish Plays Project: In 1887, 2 Latvian teenagers flee Russia and become the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run. A century later, their daughter reinvents their story, aided by ghosts, blintzes and strong Russian tea.

THIN WALLS: One building. A city in upheaval. A solo play about twelve lives colliding. "Gripping" New York Times “A little show, but with such a big, embracing heart.”

–The Guardian, London

IN THE CERVIX OF OTHERS, a full-length play.

Winner of the 2019 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award

Solo Theatre

WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW - a solo play

“Hilarious, heartbreaking, hopeful and devastating all at once.”—Minnesota Post, The Picks. BROADWAY WORLD AWARD nominee for BEST PLAY and BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY. “So vivid, so immediate, so complex, so full of compassion, so brutally honest… This is what theater can be.”—Tompkins Weekly

PLAYS for FAMILY AUDIENCES

“Spellbinding…Our audiences were enraptured.”DTW, Family Matters
“It was probably the funniest show I have ever seen!”—Daniel, age 7

TEACHING

TEACHING: workshops, residencies, private consulting.

“She is a remarkable teacher. She helped me to find my artistic voice, and her course had a major impact on my life and my career.”
—James Scruggs, playwright, performance artist.

Memoir

WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW - a memoir

“Everything we love in a book -- profound, honest, hilarious, humane, surprising."
Anne Lamott, Salon BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"
"Her darkly hilarious memoir, What I Thought I Knew (Viking), is an unexpected bundle of joy.” Oprah Magazine

THE YEAR MY MOTHER CAME BACK - a memoir

“A wry, magical memoir about the transcendent power of mother-daughter love.” —Elle
"The Year My Mother Came Back is a perfect book." Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of A Three Dog Life

Articles, Author posts, Interviews

Essays, posts, blogs, interviews

QUICK LINKS

Practical Cats Productions, Alice Eve Cohen, founding artistic director

Find out about current and past productions, people, and history of the company

OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR: premiere production at La MaMa, Dec 5-21, 2025

Click here for info and updates on the production.

New Play Exchange: Scripts by Alice Eve Cohen

OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR, 15 min video excerpt

OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR: Winner, 10th Annual National Jewish Playwriting Contest

WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW, video excerpt

4-minute performance excerpts

THIN WALLS, video excerpt

10-minute performance excerpt

HANNAH AND THE HOLLOW CHALLAH (video, 50 min)

A comic play for family audiences, performed by 2 actors playing dozens of roles (and rolls)

THE YEAR MY MOTHER CAME BACK performance, 80 minutes.

Cohen's play, based on her magic realist memoir. 2 characters, 80 minutes. Performed by Bema Productions, Victoria British Columbia

"Revolution Begins in the Bedroom" (Aria 5 min video)

"Revolution Begins in the Bedroom" Libretto, Alice Eve Cohen; Music, Tony Solitro. Produced by American Opera Projects.

WOMEN WHO DARE

A collection of 3 plays, by Alice Eve Cohen, Judy Tate, and Saviana Stanescu, that tackle racism, classism and misogyny in the Suffrage movement and today.

WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW, a memoir Viking/Penguin Books

WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW, available in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle

Three Short Women, Three Tall (True) Tales

Memoirists Program: Alice Eve Cohen, Nancy Bachrach & Julie Metz

Indie Bound

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