As Harvey Matusow (pic. Simon Taylor)
Born and briefly raised in London before being emigrated to America, Robert lived first in Dayton, Ohio, then San Diego, California, before the Cohen family re-crossed the “pond”, and he did the rest of his upgrowing in Eastbourne. He studied at the
University of East Anglia and now lives in the city of Brighton & Hove. He’s married to the actress and improviser Jenny Rowe.
Acting roles have included Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs (Edinburgh Fringe); Egeon in The Comedy of Errors (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), Alfieri in A View From The Bridge (Vauxhall Festival); Skeres in The Geminus (Camden Fringe); Aaronow in Glengarry Glen Ross, Lette in The Ugly One, Arthur Miller in Reno, Sir Johnstone in Rope (all for Rialto Theatre, Brighton); Don John in Much Ado About Nothing and Orsino in Twelfth Night (both for the Festival Shakespeare Company); Friar Lawrence & Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet (Shoreham Wordfest), George Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Mazzini Dunn in Heartbreak House (Brighton Open Air Theatre); and a Russian gangster called Stepan in the BBC sitcom Ideal.
He has written and performed five one-man shows: The Death of Nelson (a political tragicomedy set over 18 years between the high tide of Thatcherism and the dawn of New Labour); The Trials of Harvey Matusow (true tale of a McCarthyite supergrass – winner of the FringeReview Outstanding Theatre Award); High Vis, a dark trafficomedy about a warden with a stalker; the Argus Angel-winning Something Rotten, a re-working of Hamlet seen from the viewpoint of the Prince’s Uncle Claudius; and Dog’s Chosen, an autobiographical piece about his life as a Jew (or not, depending on your definition).
Other writing projects include Propaganda (a play about Shakespeare, the Earl of Essex and the latter's revolt against Elizabeth I), the novel Architecture For Beginners, and The Ragged Regiment, winner of the Constance Cox Playwriting Prize.
University of East Anglia and now lives in the city of Brighton & Hove. He’s married to the actress and improviser Jenny Rowe.
Acting roles have included Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs (Edinburgh Fringe); Egeon in The Comedy of Errors (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), Alfieri in A View From The Bridge (Vauxhall Festival); Skeres in The Geminus (Camden Fringe); Aaronow in Glengarry Glen Ross, Lette in The Ugly One, Arthur Miller in Reno, Sir Johnstone in Rope (all for Rialto Theatre, Brighton); Don John in Much Ado About Nothing and Orsino in Twelfth Night (both for the Festival Shakespeare Company); Friar Lawrence & Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet (Shoreham Wordfest), George Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Mazzini Dunn in Heartbreak House (Brighton Open Air Theatre); and a Russian gangster called Stepan in the BBC sitcom Ideal.
He has written and performed five one-man shows: The Death of Nelson (a political tragicomedy set over 18 years between the high tide of Thatcherism and the dawn of New Labour); The Trials of Harvey Matusow (true tale of a McCarthyite supergrass – winner of the FringeReview Outstanding Theatre Award); High Vis, a dark trafficomedy about a warden with a stalker; the Argus Angel-winning Something Rotten, a re-working of Hamlet seen from the viewpoint of the Prince’s Uncle Claudius; and Dog’s Chosen, an autobiographical piece about his life as a Jew (or not, depending on your definition).
Other writing projects include Propaganda (a play about Shakespeare, the Earl of Essex and the latter's revolt against Elizabeth I), the novel Architecture For Beginners, and The Ragged Regiment, winner of the Constance Cox Playwriting Prize.
