Plays by Megan Cohen. Script info, production history, and excerpts.
Recent Thoughts & Upcoming Events. What I'm thinking about & doing. Ok, it's a blog.
Megan Cohen's Bio. Who I am, and which Megan Cohen this site belongs to. There are a fair number of us around.
my email is: meganATmegancohenDOTCOM
Friends, Allies, Associations
Cutting Ball Theater, where I meet-n-greet theatergoers, read-n-talk-about scripts, run talkbacks-n-audience-discussions, and generally hang out digging the scene.
American Conservatory Theater, my once and future artistic home in San Francisco, CA. To discover the shocking truth about my time there, read my dramaturgy post on the A.C.T. blog.
Stanford University, where yes, yes, I went to school, and now because of it everyone who asks me where I went to school thinks I'm a snob.
The San Francisco outpost of the flying-monkey blockbuster musical "Wicked," where I assisted in the Company Management office.
The Discovery Channel's Planet Green, where I worked as a blogger about green living and sustainability.
The Blue Cat Screenplay Competition, where I was a reader for the 2008 contest, judging screenplays and giving detailed feedback to authors.
My profile page on Yelp.com, the thunderously hip website that employed me to create content for their New York launch. Several of my pieces, including personal favorites on The Strand and Murray's Cheese Shop, have been featured in the site's "review of the day"spot. You can browse my 100+ reviews, scan my 20+ compliments from readers, and surf my 50+ lists...
Canio's Books, where I am a lifetime shopper, and a onetime employee. This small independent bookstore in Sag Harbor, NY specializes in new & used poetry, photography, memoir, literary fiction, and has some awesome rare editions.
Blue Bottle Coffee, the reason I get out of bed in the morning, when and if I ever do.
I hit up the SFTF at Yerba Buena this weekend, and that festival is kind of a tough row to hoe. I was happy with how my piece went (SF Theater Pub put on my short "The Best Things in Life Are Money," along with a ten minute play by Ashley Cowan, as a way to promote the upcoming Pint Sized Plays). I now get to cross "have a play performed in a room on the second floor of a shopping mall, near the deserted video arcade" off my bucket list, so that's an obvious win for me... BUT...
Had so much fun seeing this explosion of new work from the Bay Area writing community. Congrats to No Nude Men Productions Artistic Director Stuart Bousel for dreaming up and putting together this colossal (over 100 artists!) festival, and thanks to Evelyn Jean Pine for putting me in her piece "Hephaestus." Being onstage on the festival's closing night, looking out at its final packed house, was like taking an express train to triumph city. Look out for Olympians 2011!!!
Thanks, Three Wise Monkeys, for throwing the best and only 9th annual Bay One Acts festival ever, and for putting my ten minute play "The Great Double Check" all up in said festival. The festival turned out to be a fab group of artists, or so I found once I got over the initial shock of how good-looking everyone was. As a general rule of thumb, if there are that many good-looking people in the same place at one time, do not trust them. They are plotting a very pretty revolution.
The Bay One Acts festival starts tonight. Almost everyone who is anyone in SF-theater-under-50 is involved with this. It's sort of like when the Disney Channel did that Camp Cucamonga TV movie that had Winnie from the Wonder Years AND DJ from Full House AND Urkel AND G. Gordon Liddy. That TV movie is a real thing, I promise. Also a real thing: Bay One Acts festival. There are two programs of short plays-- Program 1 opens tonight, and Program 2 (my piece is in that one) opens Feb 25th.
Tonight I'll be closing out the evening of shorts, songs, and sketches at the San Francisco Theater Pub Valentine's Day Post-Mortem Pageant with a solo excerpt from my play How to Love. What does love have to do with rockets, peanuts, and a gong? Come find out. I'll be on a balcony with all the answers.
8pm, no cover, at Cafe Royale (Post and Leavenworth) in San Francisco.
Jokes, poetry, magic, and a tiny bit of urination. All in only ten minutes. Totally free. Come see... "The Best Things In Life Are Money"
* August 16, 23, 30, 8pm at Cafe Royale, as part of San Francisco Theater Pub's Pint Sized Plays Festival.
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