CHRISTOPHER ADAMS-COHEN is a Los Angeles-born, London-based playwright, dramaturg, and deviser. They write character and language-driven plays and performance texts which explore ‘the thorny intersections of desire, power, and madness … with fantastic, raw energy’ (Squirrp Reviews). Adams-Cohen’s plays adapt classical themes to modern contexts, platform multimedia and underground performance practices, and centre Queer perspectives, history, spirituality, and pleasure. They live and work between the UK, US, and Germany.

Adams-Cohen’s plays include: All The Beasts Of The Earth (Commended Script: Gate Theatre x Woven Voices Prize, 2025; Commended Script: National Jewish Playwriting Contest, 2025; Official Selection: Berlin ‘80 Year War’s End’ Festival, 2025); The Mad Gay King (King’s Head Theatre, London, 2024); The Dew Collectors (Shortlist: Ilfeld Prize, 2023); Hecate House (Delphi Theatre, Berlin, 2019); and Salome (Mack Sennet Studios, Los Angeles, 2016).

As a dramaturg, Adams-Cohen specializes in developing texts with emerging queer and diasporic writers. Plays they’ve supported as dramaturg include: Patty Kim Hamilton’s RE: Jane Doe (Winner, Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘37 Plays’ Folio); Brady Schwind’s immersive reimagining of Carrie: The Musical (Winner, 2017 LA Drama Critics Circle Award); Estee Stimler’s SMOTHER at JW3; Annelise Bianchini’s Steinberg V. Steinberg, supported by Arts Council England.

Adams-Cohen’s background is in devising site-specific, immersive, and collaborative performance. With companies including Gob Squad, Disco Dining Club, and the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Adams-Cohen has presented devised text and performance work at HAU2 (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), LIFT Festival (UK), Brighton Festival (UK), Chateau Marmont (LA), Carlye Packer Gallery (LA) and REDCAT (LA). They co-founded and curated LA queer performance and club night, Ostbahnhof.

Adams-Cohen is an alumnus of the 24/25 Soho Theatre Writer’s Lab. They hold an MA (with Distinction) in Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, UoL; and a BA in Theatre Directing from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. The play-text for The Mad Gay King is available via Playdead Press.