What I’m Missing

by Meryl Cohn

A profound loss leads a woman to an unexpected calling.

About the Author:

MERYL COHN’s playwriting awards include: The ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Award finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist, twice (And Sophie Comes Too, and Reasons to Live), Lark New Play semifinalist, The Eventide Arts Theater Award, and Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theater Award. Reasons to Live was named a Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times.Eight of Meryl’s plays have been commissioned and produced by The Provincetown Theater. Her work has also been produced or developed at The Skylight Theatre, The Open Fist Theatre, TOSOS, The N.Y. International Fringe Festival (extended to Encore Series), The Cherry Pit, W.H.A.T.,The Soho Playhouse, Counter Productions, The Road Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theater, and Smith College, among others. She earned an MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Play publications include The Siegels of Montauk (in the collection, Lesbian and Queer Plays of the Jane Chambers Prize) and Best Women’s Stage Plays and Monologues, 2010, Smith & Kraus. Meryl founded the ongoing Northampton Playwrights Lab in 2006, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.