ALICE EVE COHEN (Performer/Playwright) is a playwright, solo theatre artist, and memoirist. What I Thought I Knew (published by Viking-Penguin) won the Elle’s Lettres Grand Prix for Nonfiction, Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and Salon’s Best Books of the Year. Her solo play based on What I Thought I Knew was selected as a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and will be produced by the All For One Festival of Solo Theatre and The Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY. She has toured her solo shows nationally and internationally in spaces both humble and grand, from main stage theatres to school cafeterias, and everything in-between. Her plays, including Thin Walls, Oklahoma Samovar, Jessica's Cervix and Hannah and the Hollow Challah have been produced at theaters, including: New York Theatre Workshop, The New Georges, 78th Street Theatre Lab, DTW, Here, EST, Women’s Project, Kitchen Theatre, Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Adirondack Theatre Festival, U Michigan, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, The Public Theatre; INTERNATIONAL festivals in Ireland, Scotland, Israel and Trinidad. Honored by fellowships and grants from NY State Council on the Arts, NEA, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She holds an MFA from the New School and a BA from Princeton University. She teaches playwriting and solo theater at The New School, and lives with her family in New York City.   aliceevecohen.com

ELIZABETH MARGID (Director) is delighted to be working once again with Ms. Cohen, having collaborated with her in the past on several incarnations of her solo work Thin Walls as well as on her wonderful children’s theatre piece for actors and puppets Hannah and the Hollow Challah. Ms. Margid has directed a variety of original, classic, and musical work for, among other venues, the Yale Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre, Soho Rep, McCarter Theatre, NYU’s Musical Theatre Program, New Dramatists, and Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where she is the Head of the Directing Program. She is the librettist of a music-theatre adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, which received a workshop at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival and a production by the Fordham Alumni Company with generous support from the Henson Foundation. A Visit From The Footbinder, a music-theatre work she conceived and directed, was developed by BMI and Goodspeed Opera, produced by Lincoln Center at the Arclight Theatre, and won the Jerry Bock New Musical Award. Ms. Margid received an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama, where she was awarded the John Badham Directing Fellowship. She is a two-time recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts’ Artistic Associate Grant.