page_title: Robert Cohen (playwright)
section_title: Directing career
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Cohen (playwright) / Directing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Marquee for Machiavelli, Field Station Theatre, at the Hayworth Theatre, Los Angeles, August, 2006.
context_page_description: Robert Cohen is an American university professor, theatre director, playwright, and drama critic. Now a Claire Trevor Professor emeritus after 50 years teaching at the University of California, Irvine since 1965, he continues to write, and has published many books on theatre, along with articles, dramatic anthologies and many plays, and has conducted advanced teaching residencies in numerous countries and much of the United States. He has been called a Master Teacher by the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, has been praised as a "walking theatre directory and encyclopedia" by his fellow teachers, and has been honored during his career with the Polish Medal of Honor, the Honoris Causa Professor Degree at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, UCI's Distinguished Professor of Research, and the Career Achievement Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
context_section_description: Cohen has directed twelve classical productions at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals and over ninety stage productions at his Irvine campus and other theatres; his work includes classics like King Lear, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night; his own translations of Tibi’s Law, The Misanthrope, Carmen, The Magic Flute, and Pedro Gynt; and a variety of American musicals including My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Sweeney Todd, and Kiss Me, Kate.
  In 2006, Cohen directed the premiere of his play Machiavelli: The Art of Terror at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles (photo, left).
  Five of Cohen's productions have been seen abroad, in Australia, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic; two of these, written by Bryan Reynolds, have been with the Transversal Theater Company, a Dutch-American experimental theatre group: Railroad at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania and The National Theatre, Cluj, Romania, May–June 2006; Blue Shade at Teatr Lalek, Wrocław, Poland; Teatr Modjeska, Legnica, Poland; Teatr 77,  Łódź, Poland; Divadlo DISK, Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), Prague, Czech Republic, May–June 2007; Teatrul Mic, 17th Annual National Theatre Festival, Bucharest, Romania, November 2007.
caption: Marquee of the Hayworth Theatre, Los Angeles, for the premiere of Machiavelli: The Art of Terror, August 2006.
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