'Matusow' at the Just Off Broadway Theatre, Kansas City, March 2024
Welcome, and thanks for coming to find out about writer & actor Robert Cohen.
Born in London, raised in Dayton, San Diego & 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, with whom he lives in the Sussex village of Hassocks.
In addition to performances at others’ behest (including an abundance of Shakespeare, quite a lot of American stuff and the role of a Russian gangster called Stepan in the BBC sitcom Ideal), he’s won acclaim for a series of solo shows including the Hamlet paraquel
Something Rotten (aka The Claudius Complex); the Jewish memoir Dog’s Chosen;
The Trials of Harvey Matusow, the strange but true Cold War tale of a McCarthyite supergrass; and High Vis, in which he appeared at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe. Quint, the traffic warden anti-hero from High Vis, was also the furloughed protagonist of Keeping the Faith, a web series made during the Big Lockdown of 2020. Later that year, three semi-alfresco Matusow shows at the Stroud Theatre Festival marked a return to live performance – and in March 2024 the show made its US debut as part of Central Standard Theatre’s British Invasion, playing at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City.
Born in London, raised in Dayton, San Diego & 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, with whom he lives in the Sussex village of Hassocks.
In addition to performances at others’ behest (including an abundance of Shakespeare, quite a lot of American stuff and the role of a Russian gangster called Stepan in the BBC sitcom Ideal), he’s won acclaim for a series of solo shows including the Hamlet paraquel
Something Rotten (aka The Claudius Complex); the Jewish memoir Dog’s Chosen;
The Trials of Harvey Matusow, the strange but true Cold War tale of a McCarthyite supergrass; and High Vis, in which he appeared at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe. Quint, the traffic warden anti-hero from High Vis, was also the furloughed protagonist of Keeping the Faith, a web series made during the Big Lockdown of 2020. Later that year, three semi-alfresco Matusow shows at the Stroud Theatre Festival marked a return to live performance – and in March 2024 the show made its US debut as part of Central Standard Theatre’s British Invasion, playing at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City.
Robert’s more busily populated 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. He is currently working on Say What You See, a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Emperor’s new Clothes. His novel Architecture For Beginners was published by Hobart Books in the spring of 2023.
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.
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
