Ralph Alan Cohen

Ralph Alan Cohen (born 1945) is an American educator, scholar theatre director, and academic entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Senior Advisor of the American Shakespeare Center, a theater company located in Staunton, Virginia. In 2001, as Executive Director of the ASC, he was also Project Director for the building of the Blackfriars Playhouse, a recreation of the Blackfriars Theatre, England’s first purpose-built indoor theatre, and home to Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men until the closing of the theatres in 1642.

Cohen was Gonder Professor of Shakespeare and Performance and founded the Master of Letters and Fine Arts program at Mary Baldwin University. He is the author of ''ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare''.

Cohen’s "ability to negotiate nimbly among three disciplines: scholarship, pedagogy, and theatre-making" has influenced theatrical and pedagogical practices in the United States and abroad. Provided by Wikipedia