| Jaffe Cohen | |
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From the moment he takes the stage
Jaffe Cohen is electric. |
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Cohen is an award winning screenwriter, author, stand up comic, actor and
educator. His screenplay Hit and Runway, which he co-wrote with
director Christopher Livingston, won "Best Screenplay" at the Los
Angeles Independent Film Festival, Outfest, the Seattle Film Festival and the
US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted by HBO. The film was
released theatrically in early 2001 by Lot 47 Films. Jaffe also
has the distinction of being one of the first openly gay standup comedians on
national television. His groundbreaking appearance on fox Television's
"Comic Strip Live" in 1990 was followed by numerous television and
radio spots. His one act play "Elliot Bound" was produced at
NYU in 1980 and was later revived Off-Broadway and his highly acclaimed one
man show The King of Kings and I, directed by Michael Zam, opened
in New York at the Courtyard Theater and has been performed in many cities
across the country. His comic memoir with the same title was published
by Harper Collins in 1997. Jaffe is also the co-author of Growing Up
Gay: from Left Out to Coming Out published by Hyperion. He also
created and performed in a sketch comedy show called In Thru the Out Door
which was broadcast on CBC in 1999. In addition, he was one of a half
dozen featured performers in the film documentary We're Funny That Way
shown on CBC and Cinemax. Jaffe also had speaking roles in two major
Hollywood films, As Good As It Gets, directed by James L. Brooks and Hanging
Up, directed by Diane Keaton. A native New Yorker, Jaffe is
currently writing a new screenplay with the producer of Hit and Runway and a
novel about a horny gay astrologer. |
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