Mr. Cohen's play, LENNY & LOU, premiered September 2004 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. and was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Best Play and Best Resident Play as part of the Helen Hayes Awards and was also nominated for the American Theatre Critic's Association's Annual ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award. Mr. Cohen's play, VATTAGO, was a semi-finalist at PlayLabs, The Playwrights Center in 2005. Workshops of both LENNY & LOU and GOD'S CREATURES were presented by The Lark Play Development Center in New York in 2001 and 1999, respectively. GOD'S CREATURES was a semi-finalist in the Stageplays' International Playwrights Competition. THE DESERT was featured by PSNBC in 2002 and received Honorable Mention in the Plays for the New Millennium Competition. LUNA PARK was a runner-up in the Jewish Ensemble Theatre's Spring Festival of New Plays. GOING, a one-act, was a semi-finalist in the Chutzpah Festival and will be published this year by Playscripts, Inc. Ian is an Artistic Associate at the Lark Play Development Center.

Favorite Movies: Coen bros movies (no relation)

BS Projects:   Fantasy

CURRENT PROJECT: VATTAGO: The Lark Play Development Center, NYC; LITTLE UNIVERSE, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington D.C.