Nate Cohen - Co-Producer, Gun Talk Facilitator, Education Coordinator
Nate is a Portland, Oregon based director, teacher and actor. He is currently a Company Member at Theatre Vertigo, sits on the board of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance, and has worked extensively in various capacities with companies such as Artists Repertory Theatre (American Hero and Grand Concourse), the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (Procedures For Saying No, Or the Whale, All Well, Drowned Horse Tavern, The Three Sisters, Enter the Night, AfterThought) Third Rail Repertory Theatre (Static, The Night Alive, Bull, ID[ea], Reverse/Loop/Repeat, Off the Rails Festival), CoHo Productions (The Gun Show), Action/Adventure (All's Faire, Pilot Season) and Theatre Vertigo (Love & Information, A Maze) where he is an ensemble member and resident director. He also directed the world premieres of KCACTF award-winning Middle Names and Alone in a Taxicab in a Snowy Foreign Country at Three in the Morning.
As a teacher, Nate has worked as a teaching artist in more than a dozen public schools in and around Portland, as well as the Oregon Children's Theatre, and he is currently the head teacher of Isinglass/Artists Repertory Theatre's esteemed Egg summer theatre leadership academy. He specializes in teaching directing, devised performance, theatre history, and the use of art as social commentary. He has also taught numerous workshops on audience development, play production, and community engagement.
As a teacher, Nate has worked as a teaching artist in more than a dozen public schools in and around Portland, as well as the Oregon Children's Theatre, and he is currently the head teacher of Isinglass/Artists Repertory Theatre's esteemed Egg summer theatre leadership academy. He specializes in teaching directing, devised performance, theatre history, and the use of art as social commentary. He has also taught numerous workshops on audience development, play production, and community engagement.