2024 ARTISTIC PRODUCTION STAFF
JEREMY B. COHEN, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jeremy Cohen is a nationally renowned director, playwright and leader in the field of theatre. He has served for 13 years as producing artistic director at Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and will continue in that role until 2024. Previously he served as associate artistic director/director of new work at Hartford Stage (2003-2010), where he also directed several premieres. As founding artistic director of Naked Eye Theatre Company in Chicago, Cohen developed/directed more than 15 plays, including several premieres. Other Regional/NYC directing credits include productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Alliance, Baltimore Center Stage, Dorset Theatre, The Duke on 42nd Street, George Street Playhouse, Goodman, Kansas City Rep, McCarter, Mixed Blood, New Victory, Olney Theatre, Open Fist, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Royal George, Steppenwolf Theatre, Theater J, Theater Latté Da, Victory Gardens and Workhaus Collective; workshops at O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, New York Stage and Film, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, A.C.T./New Strands, New Harmony, Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Woolly Mammoth. He has received numerous directing awards, an NEA/TCG Directors Fellowship, and a commission on a co-written play (with Dipika Guha) for “Malicious Animal Magnetism” at A.C.T./ZSpace in San Francisco. His Off-Broadway production (at The Duke on 42nd Street) of singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke's “My Mother Has 4 Noses” recently finished touring the U.S., and he's currently writing the book for “Playing With Fire” with music and lyrics by JC Chasez and Jimmy Harry, and developing the musical adaptation of the award-winning documentary “The Gospel of Eureka” with Emily Saliers (of Indigo Girls).
HANNAH WOLF, SENIOR ARTISTIC PRODUCER
Hannah Wolf (she/her/hers) is an LA based theatre director and educator originally from Juneau Alaska. She directs new plays and musicals and subverts old ones. Hannah has directed work at the Geffen Playhouse, the Fountain Theatre, B Street Theater, La Jolla's WOW Festival, The Playwright’s Center, Perseverance Theatre, Fusebox Festival, IAMA Theater Company, and many others. She's a National Directors Fellow, a Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania), and an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She received her M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of SDC. https://www.hannahjwolf.com/
JEFF LIU, ARTISTIC PRODUCER
Jeff Liu is a writer and director for theater, film and web. His productions include the LA premiere of Chinglish by David Henry Hwang, as well as the world premieres of Memorial by Livian Yeh (NYT Critics Pick), Paletas de Coco by Franky D. Gonzalez (Ars Nova ANTFest), The Brothers Paranormal by Prince Gomolvilas, Two Mile Hollow by Leah Nanako Winkler, The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) by Tom Jacobson, Terminus Americana by Matt Pelfrey, and The Golden Hour by Philip W. Chung. He also adapted the Pulitzer nominated Yellow Face by DHH for the YOMYOMF Network on YouTube.