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A Great Play I Didn’t Write, And The Story Of My Only A+.

Want to watch a great play I didn’t write, right now?  Check out this fabulous video of kids performing the totemic avant-garde piece “Offending The Audience” by Peter Handke.

I’ve loved this play since studying it in college, me and a friend in the-world’s-most-intense-theater-seminar.  It was just the two of us (young, good haircuts, a little too cool for school) and the famous Carl Weber (old, bald, German and brilliant, Bertolt Brecht’s assistant director and right-hand man at the Berliner Ensemble), sitting on the couch in the famous Carl Weber’s office Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Continue reading

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My Dumplings Interview: “Breathless,” “Shameless,” “Like I’m Screaming One Last Message Out Before Being Hit By A Truck.”

Super-happy with this interview dramaturg Marissa Skudlarek did with me about “Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas.”  She asked great questions and made me sound really smart.  In the Dumplings interview we talk about sequels, television, the dumpling play that came to be, and the dumpling play that almost was.  Check out this exchange: Continue reading

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“Disarmingly Cute,” “Blood-Curdlingly Vicious,” and “A Worthy Successor”: Dumplings in the SF Bay Guardian

Wow, the SF Bay Guardian liked the “Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas” so much in their review “This Shit Is Bananas!”   Check out this rad quote:

As the banal, chart-topping strains of Taio Cruz fill the theatre, a whirlwind of pink sportswear and bared teeth commandeers the stage. This is a moment in the evening survivors of BOA X, last year’s edition of the Bay One Acts Festival, have been waiting for. Continue reading

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“What truly elevates it is Cohen’s language”: Dumplings in the SF Weekly

What a fabulous review of the 2012 Bay One Acts in the SF Weekly today… especially the part about me, and about the play I wrote, “Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas.”   Here’s a quote: Continue reading

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Megan Cohen is Astonished by the Internet

Just took a quick peek behind the virtual curtain, to check on my site logs– here are the top ten cities my visitors are coming from this month.  What cool surprises!  Check it. Continue reading

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Three Little Dumplings: An Introduction

In celebration of the upcoming premiere of my new play “Three Little Dumplings Go Bananas” at the 2012 Bay One Acts Festival April 22 – May 12 in San Francisco, here’s a quick introduction to how the Dumpling Universe came about!  Continue reading

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The Oath of Megan Cohen

I, Megan Cohen, playwright, friend to the meek, and transmedia cultural juggernaut, now begin this blog.  Here is my bloggers’ oath.

* I will post about projects I’m working on, about some of the people I’m working with, and about things I see and notice which make me be like “THAT’S THE JAM!”

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