Cynthia E. Cohen is a writer, teacher, and leader. She directs the Peacebuilding and the Arts Program at Brandeis University. Her work centers on the arts, culture, justice, and peace.

At Brandeis University and with Theater Without Borders, Cohen directed Acting Together on the World Stage and co-created the accompanying documentary and toolkit. Along with Roberto Gutiérrez Varea and Polly O. Walker, she is the co-editor of Acting Together I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence (New Village Press, 2011) and Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict: Building Just and Inclusive Communities (New Village Press, 2011). 

Cohen works extensively with peacebuilding. She has worked as a dialogue facilitator around the world, directed a community-based, anti-racist oral history center in the Boston are, and she directs ReCAST Inc., which furthers the work of Acting Together. She lives in Massachusetts. 

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