Emery Cohen - Actor

Meet the cast of Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl at Twin Masks Performing Arts Center., opening October 31. Tickets at twinmasks.org.

Emery Cohen (Jean) is thrilled to be making their Twin Masks debut as a small casserole. They are a nonbinary actor based in Cleveland and use they/them pronouns. Emery’s favorite credits include Emily in Our Town at French Creek Theatre, the title character in The Little Prince with Ensemble Theatre, Mayella in To Kill a Mockingbird at Weathervane Playhouse, Martha in The Children’s Hour at Stow Players, Schiller in Walking to Buchenwald with Convergence-Continuum, and most recently assorted characters in Blimpulse: The Akron Cycle. Follow “Emery Cohen - Actor” on Facebook to keep up with future shows. Thanks to my friends and family, lots of love to Kellen.

Meet the author of our upcoming production, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl.
(Official Headshot by Greg Constanzo)

Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright, poet, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Melancholy Play (2001) Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), Dead Man's Cell Phone (2007), and In the Next Room (or the Vi****or Play) (2009). These works and others have been produced on and off Broadway and the West End.

Among numerous awards and honors, Ruhl has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, and the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award. She has twice been a finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2005, 2010) and been nominated for Tony Award for Best Play (2010). In 2020, she adapted her play Eurydice into the libretto for Matthew Aucoin's opera of the same name at the Metropolitan Opera. Eurydice was nominated for Best Opera Recording at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

She received the Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play for Dead Man's Cell Phone.