Marya Cohn

Marya Cohn is a writer/director and film professor. Her feature script, Hurricane Season, currently in development, was invited to The Writers Lab, on the Wscripted Excellent Screenplays by Women at Cannes list, a Sundance Writers Lab finalist, a Nicholls quarterfinalist, and received a Tangerine Fellowship to Stowe Story Labs. She wrote and directed the feature film, The Girl in the Book, starring Emily Van Camp and Michael Nyqvist, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was released by Myriad Pictures and Freestyle Releasing. She directed the low-budget feature, Shoplifting Chanel, written by Kate Moira Ryan, which premiered at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and played at festivals worldwide. The short film she wrote and directed, Developing, starring Natalie Portman and Frances Conroy, screened at Sundance, won grand prizes at the Belgian Festival Mondial du Cinéma de Court Métrage and the St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival, and aired on The Sundance Channel and 13’s Reel NY. She has also directed plays at numerous off-Broadway venues. Marya teaches screenwriting at The New School and advises students at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she is the Chair of the Film Program. She also mentors at Nostos screenwriting retreats. She received her MFA from NYU.