CHRISTOPHER ADAMS-COHEN is a Los Angeles-born, Jewish-American 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. Based in London, they live and work between the UK, US, and Germany.

Adams-Cohen's play The Mad Gay King premiered at King’s Head Theatre (London) in autumn 2024. A staged reading of their play All The Beasts Of The Earth, a contemporary Jewish ghost story, was comissioned in 2025 by Berlin Kulturprojekte for their city-wide festival commemorating 80 years since the end of WWII. Other plays include HECATE HOUSE at Theater Im Delphi (Berlin); SALOME, produced by Nathan Birnbaum at Mack Sennet Studios (LA); and The Dew Collectors, currently on the Shortlist for the 2025 Ilfeld Prize, developed through readings and workshops at Soho Revue Gallery (London), Navel (LA) and Soho Warehouse (LA).

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 & produced by American Theatre of London.

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 legendary LA queer club night, Ostbahnhof.

Adams-Cohen is an alumnus of the 24/25 Soho Theatre Writer’s Lab. They gained an MA in Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance (with Distinction) 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.