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Daniel Elias Cohen has performed in and directed numerous productions in New York, California and Seattle. He was an actor and associate member of NYC's Cannon Company for several years performing in their innovative productions of Macbeth, Three Sisters and PUSS. Daniel was also co-founder and Associate Artistic Director for the ZEU Theatre Company. His directing credits in New York and elsewhere include his own original adaptations of the Italo Calvino short stories Teresa and Making Do, Juliet which he also adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Miss Julie, The Bald Soprano, Cloud Tectonics, Language of Angels, On the Verge, Catullus Live! (an original one-man show based on the writings of Gaius Valerius Catullus), The Dumb Waiter, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has worked at New York's Blue Heron Arts Center, The Pearl Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, The Theatorium, the Performing Garage, Common Basis Theatre, The Marsh in San Francisco and Seattle's Intiman Theatre. Daniel has trained for over 10 years in Suzuki movement with several teachers including Robyn Hunt, Steve Pearson, KJ Sanchez, Will Bond and Ellen Lauren. He was an intern with the Wooster Group for two years, received his BA in Acting from San Francisco State University, his MFA in Directing from the University of Washington under the mentorship of Jon Jory, Steve Pearson, and Valerie Curtis-Newton, and is a member of Director's Lab West. Daniel grew up in Mendocino, a picturesque town on the North coast of California. He is a certified PADI Divemaster and has traveled extensively throughout the world spending significant time in the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Nepal, Central America, Europe and the South Pacific. |