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Welcome to the website for writer and performer Robert Cohen. Born in London, raised in Dayton, San Diego & Eastbourne, Robert spent more than 30 years living in Brighton, on the Sussex coast, before moving to the nearby village of Hassocks with his wife, the actor and improviser Jenny Rowe –five years and a global pandemic after they were married. During the enforced isolation of 2020’s inaugural lockdown, Robert kept busy, acting in online Shakespeare (as York in The Show Must Go Online’s Richard II) and winning an OnComm Award for his web series Keeping the Faith, featuring Quint, traffic warden anti-hero of the solo stage show High Vis. His other solo shows have included the Hamlet paraquel Something Rotten (aka The Claudius Complex), the Jewish memoir Dog’s Chosen, and The Trials of Harvey Matusow (pictured), the strange but true Cold War tale of a McCarthyite supergrass. |
Matusow was the subject of Robert’s return to live work, when, in October 2020, he gave three performances of the show at the 8th Stroud Theatre Festival. Defying both Covid-19 and the atrocious autumn weather, the shows, originally planned for an outdoor space, took place in the covered yet still semi-open surroundings of The Pavilion at the Museum in the Park. The results can be seen via the STF website here.
Robert won the Constance Cox Playwriting Prize for The Ragged Regiment, his black comedy about internecine warfare at a stuffed-animal museum in Cromer, and is currently working on Little Things That Keep Us Together, a play inspired by his old art teacher.
On these pages you’ll find info abundant about Robert’s acting and writing work, as well as news, occasional bloggery, and a page for useful links and contact details.
Robert won the Constance Cox Playwriting Prize for The Ragged Regiment, his black comedy about internecine warfare at a stuffed-animal museum in Cromer, and is currently working on Little Things That Keep Us Together, a play inspired by his old art teacher.
On these pages you’ll find info abundant about Robert’s acting and writing work, as well as news, occasional bloggery, and a page for useful links and contact details.
Robert Cohen can be Twittered at both @cohenbobbycoco and @HighVisTheShow
