Out now: ARCHITECTURE FOR BEGINNERS – a novel!!!
'Matusow' at the Just Off Broadway Theatre, Kansas City, March 2024
Welcome, and thanks for your curiosity about writer & actor Robert Cohen!
Born in London, raised in Ohio, California and Eastbourne, Robert spent his early career in journalism before making a leap of faith into showbiz. He is married to the actor, writer and improviser Jenny Rowe.
Acting work has encompassed an abundance of Shakespeare, some TV and film (including Stepan the Russian people-smuggler in BBC sitcom Ideal), and such solo stage shows as Hamlet paraquel Something Rotten (or The Claudius Complex), Jewish memoir Dog’s Chosen, and trafficomedy High Vis (Edinburgh 2014). Quint, the traffic warden anti-hero of High Vis, was also the furloughed protagonist of Keeping the Faith, a web series made during the Big Lockdown of 2020.
Solo show The Trials of Harvey Matusow, the strange but true Cold War tale of a McCarthyite supergrass, made its American debut in 2024 as part of Central Standard Theatre’s British Invasion in Kansas City. Robert has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to make an Archive On 4 documentary about Matusow. It will be aired in early 2026.
Born in London, raised in Ohio, California and Eastbourne, Robert spent his early career in journalism before making a leap of faith into showbiz. He is married to the actor, writer and improviser Jenny Rowe.
Acting work has encompassed an abundance of Shakespeare, some TV and film (including Stepan the Russian people-smuggler in BBC sitcom Ideal), and such solo stage shows as Hamlet paraquel Something Rotten (or The Claudius Complex), Jewish memoir Dog’s Chosen, and trafficomedy High Vis (Edinburgh 2014). Quint, the traffic warden anti-hero of High Vis, was also the furloughed protagonist of Keeping the Faith, a web series made during the Big Lockdown of 2020.
Solo show The Trials of Harvey Matusow, the strange but true Cold War tale of a McCarthyite supergrass, made its American debut in 2024 as part of Central Standard Theatre’s British Invasion in Kansas City. Robert has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to make an Archive On 4 documentary about Matusow. It will be aired in early 2026.
Robert’s other plays have included the Constance Cox Prize-winning The Ragged Regiment, a black comedy set in a stuffed-animal museum in Cromer, and Propaganda, an account of Shakespeare’s tangential part in the Essex revolt against Elizabeth I.
His debut novel, Architecture For Beginners, was published by Hobart Books in the spring of 2023. He is currently working on the follow-up, Little Things That Keep Us Together.
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.
His debut novel, Architecture For Beginners, was published by Hobart Books in the spring of 2023. He is currently working on the follow-up, Little Things That Keep Us Together.
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
