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ROBERT COHEN was the founding chair Drama at the University of California at Irvine, where he continues to serve as the department's Claire Trevor Professor of Drama. He has also been a resident acting teacher at the Actors Center in New York, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the Korean National Arts University, and the national theatre academies of Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. He is an accomplished stage director, scholar, playwright, drama critic, and teacher. A director by training , Cohen has staged thirteen professional productions at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, plus well over a hundred productions at Stages Theatre Center , Virginia Museum Theatre , Theatre 40 , Image Theatre , Summer Repertory Theatre , the Medieval Drama Project , the Manhattan Theatre Source, various universities, and several operas, videos and films. In addition to Theatre and Theatre: Brief Edition, he is also the author of many theatre books, including Acting One, Advanced Acting, Acting in Shakespeare, Acting Professionally, Acting Power, More Power to You, Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny, Creative Play Direction, and two dramatic anthologies. His essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Forum, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Theater der Zeit, Essays in Theatre, On Stage Studies, The Drama Review, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Slavic and East European Performance, Experiment and Innovation, and Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Cohen's play, The Prince, published by Dramatic Publishing Company, has been professionally produced in Long Beach, Pittsburgh, Budapest, and in staged readings in New York and Los Angeles; his dramatic translations and opera translations have been both produced and published widely. For the past twenty years, Cohen has been the Southern California drama critic for Plays International, reviewing over two hundred plays. In 1999, he received the national Career Achievement award from ATHE - the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

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Robert Cohen

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Books from Robert Cohen

Acting One

Acting Professionally: Raw Facts about Careers in Acting

Acting One/Acting Two

Creative Play Direction

Acting in Shakespeare

Working Together in Theatre: Collaboration and Leadership

Theater Appreciation

Advanced Acting: Style, Character, And Performance

Acting Power

Shakespeare on Theatre: A Critical Look at His Theories and Practices

Eight Plays for Theatre

Acting One

Näitlemisvägi

Machiavelli: arta terorii

Theatre

Falling Into Theatre. . .And Finding Myself: A Memoir