Ralph Alan Cohen
Ralph Alan Cohen is the co-founder and Director of Mission for the American Shakespeare Center, a regional theater company located in Staunton, Virginia.[1] He is also the Gonder professor of Shakespeare in Performance at Mary Baldwin University. He is the author of ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare. The book won the AEP's Distinguished Achievement Award[2] and the 2007 Association of Educational Publishers Award for Best Professional Development Book.[3]
Cohen is the recipient of Virginia's award for outstanding faculty as a former professor at James Madison University.[4] In 2008, he won Virginia's Governor's Arts Award with Jim Warren. In 2009, he was the Theo Crosby Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.[5] In 2014, he was the first American to receive the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Award.[6] In 2016, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Duke University Graduate School.[7]
References
- ^ "Ralph Alan Cohen". American Shakespeare Center. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Listening for Language with Ralph Alan Cohen at the Second Biennial Shakespeare Conference". University of Dallas. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "ShakesFear and How to Cure It!". Amazon. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Ralph Alan Cohen A.M. '69, Ph.D. '73". Duke Magazine. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Ralph Alan Cohen". Mary Baldwin University. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "ASC co-founder honored". The News Leader. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- ^ "Shakespeare Scholar Cohen to Receive 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award". Retrieved 22 April 2018.