Poison Peach Productions
Cohen is co-founder of Poison Peach Productions, which re-envisions mythic themes for modern times using music, theatre, animation, circus and multimedia. Poison Peach reimagines and reclaims archetypal stories through an intersectional lens that challenges socially constructed binaries and hierarchies. Poison Peach has produced performances and albums throughout New England and NYC, from onstage psychoanalyses of fairy tales in Brooklyn and queering commedia dell'arte at the American Repertory in Boston to outdoor concerts and acoustic cabaret shows in living rooms. Poison Peach's latest production Medusa Reclaimed was performed as a live theater piece in 2022 at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA after being commissioned as a multimedia animated radio play for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at Museum of Science, Boston in 2019/2020
Cohen is co-founder of Poison Peach Productions, which re-envisions mythic themes for modern times using music, theatre, animation, circus and multimedia. Poison Peach reimagines and reclaims archetypal stories through an intersectional lens that challenges socially constructed binaries and hierarchies. Poison Peach has produced performances and albums throughout New England and NYC, from onstage psychoanalyses of fairy tales in Brooklyn and queering commedia dell'arte at the American Repertory in Boston to outdoor concerts and acoustic cabaret shows in living rooms. Poison Peach's latest production Medusa Reclaimed was performed as a live theater piece in 2022 at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA after being commissioned as a multimedia animated radio play for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at Museum of Science, Boston in 2019/2020
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?
Cohen is co-founder of Boston-based band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? The soul of the band is rooted in its songs - poetic, inventive, emotionally naked meditations on love, religion, sexuality, and identity in the tradition of songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, and Laura Nyro. The band also reimagines classics from Johnny Cash, Prince, and Joni Mitchell, as well as Irish folk tunes and Appalachian murder ballands.
Composition and ArrangingCohen is an accomplished composer and arranger, writing music for a variety of projects with his student groups, with Poison Peach Productions and with What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? His work Into the Woods was premiered at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, MA as a sound installation accompanying the visual art of Gabrielle Barzhagi in 2012. He received his international premiere as a composer in 2022 when his piece Hard Times was performed at the Music at Port Milford Chamber Music Festival in Ontario, Canada.
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Poison Peach String Quartet
Nathan Cohen loves string quartets. He loves playing in them. He loves listening to them. He loves writing for them. Poison Peach String Quartet is the creative home for all his string quartet dreams. |
Rockport Public Schools
Cohen is Director of the Orchestra and Chamber Music Program in the Rockport, MA Public Schools, where he started working in 2002. He conducts five different orchestras across 4th-12th grade, and coaches multiple chamber groups. Cohen collaborates closely with Rockport Music to bring top-notch musical residencies to students in Rockport, Gloucester, and neighboring communities, many of which culminate in concerts at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, featuring student musicians.
Endicott College
Cohen is a Professor of Music and Director of the Endicott College Chamber Ensemble in Beverly, MA.
Cohen is a Professor of Music and Director of the Endicott College Chamber Ensemble in Beverly, MA.
Fight or Flight Theater
Fight or Flight Theater does plays on trapeze. They are a group of Rocky Mountain-trained MFA-bearing actor/aerialists with a hankerin’ for visceral storytelling, imaginative staging, and a wee bit of irreverence. They adore Theater and respect its great artists; but they will not hesitate to cut that Shakespeare joke about the “English Kersey” and the “French Velvet” if it’s not funny to a modern audience (Meas 1.ii). They aim to break open great stories with innovative imagery, and elevate a piece’s poetry by literally elevating themselves. Cohen has served as Music Director for multiple FoF productions, including Richard II and Moby Dick.