2023 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).

KHANISHA FOSTER, ARTISTIC PRODUCER
Khanisha Foster’s writing, along with her life experience as being the daughter of a Black Panther father and a mother whose family invented Bubble Wrap, landed her a writing gig developing a TV series with K&L Productions (Kay Cannon & Laverne McKinnon). She and Julie Hébert (The Man in the High Castle) are adapting a Philip K. Dick novel with Electric Shepherd Productions. Foster has written video games for Probably Monsters, the company founded by the creators of Halo and Destiny, and for Episodes. She’s a recipient of the TCG Fox Foundation Grant for Actors of Extraordinary Potential. www.khanishafoster.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.

HANNAH WOLF, 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/