Robert Cohen was the founding chair of the UCI Drama Department from the campus's opening in 1965, serving in this position until 1990; he now holds the title of Claire Trevor Professor of Drama.   He is a professional director, translator, playwright, essayist, drama critic and the author of many books on theatre – including the double-volume Acting One/Acting Two (2007), Acting Professionally, Acting Power, Acting in Shakespeare, Theatre (eighth edition, 2008), More Power To You, Creative Play Direction, Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny, two dramatic anthologies, and many plays, play translations, scholarly articles and play reviews, and he has conducted advanced teaching residencies in more than a dozen countries and in twenty states in the U.S.  His stage productions in 2007-08 will be Rabbit Hole at UCI and The School for Wives at the Utah Shakespearean Festival.  In 1999 he received the Career Achievement Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

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