Alice Eve Cohen is a playwright, performer, author and educator based in New York City. Winner of the Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award, the National Jewish Playwriting Contest, Oprah magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and Elle Literary Grand Prix for Nonfiction, she received a 2025 NYSCA Individual Artist Theatre Commissioning Award for her play Oklahoma Samovar, which will be produced at La Mama in December.
Her plays have been performed at venues including the Kitchen Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Women’s Project, Berkshire Theatre Group, LA Women’s Theatre Festival, and at festivals on four continents. Her acclaimed memoirs, What I Thought I Knew and The Year My Mother Came Back, are published by Penguin Books and Algonquin. A recipient of fellowships and awards from NYSCA, NEA, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Voice & Vision, and The Orchard Project, she has a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from The New School.
Alice leads creative writing workshops at a homeless shelter in NYC and has been a guest artist at schools and universities nationwide. She teaches playwriting at The New School, where she received the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award.