Current and Upcoming...

BOOKS

Cohen will have published several new and revised books during the 2008-2010 period, namely:

• Acting One/ActingTwo, McGraw-Hill, 2008
• A verse translation of Molière’s The Misanthrope, Encore Performance Publishing, 2008
• The seventh edition of his Acting Professionally (now co-authored by James Calleri), Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• The Romanian translation of his play Machiavelli: the art of terror, 2009
• The ninth editions of his intro texts, Theatre and Theatre: Brief Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010
• Working Together: Leadership and Collaboration in Theatre, 2010,a new book with Palgrave Macmillan.

DIRECTING

• Recent and upcoming directing projects include:
• School for Wives, 2008, Utah Shakespearean Festival
• Endgame, 2008, UC Irvine
• The world premiere of Bryan Reynolds’ Eve’s Rapture, 2009, Hayworth Theatre Los Angeles
• The premiere of a musical version of an updated medieval mystery play in preparation for 2010.
  

OTHER

Activities include:

• June 2009, attended and spoke at Grotowski Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland
• October 2009, awarded the title of Professor Honoris Causa at the University of Babes¸-Bolyai in Cluj, Romania
• November 2009, awarded the "Medal of Honor" by the Polish Ministry of Culture.
• April, 2010, will present a paper on implications of his 1960 correspondence with playwright Samuel Beckett at Northeast Modern Language Association meetings in Montreal.
• 2010-11, the Romanian premiere of his play, Machiavelli, anticipated at the statetheatre of Arad, Romania.