Kenneth Cosby (Director)
Kenneth Cosby was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Howard University on a full acting scholarship and later transferred to NYU to study film. While at NYU, Ken worked at La Mama, E.T.C. and was one of the founding members of the Absolute Theater Company, which performed throughout New York City. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts undergraduate film program, Ken was accepted into NYU’s Graduate Dramatic Writing Program.
While in the Dramatic Writing Program, Ken won the Lucille Lortel Playwriting Award for his one-act play, Angels at the Heavenly Gate, a play about the Tiananman Square riots of 1989 as well as winning the Graduate Award in Screenwriting for his screenplay, Chino-Latino. While in Graduate school, Ken also wrote for NBC and is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East. In 2003, Ken’s screenplay Dogwood Shade made it to the second round of the Sundance Screenwriting Competition.
Ken taught a writing for television class at NYU and currently teaches screenwriting at the University of Southern California.
While in Los Angeles, Ken has been a member of the Blacksmyths Playwriting Fellowship at the Mark Taper Forum and has written and performed in several sketch comedy groups. Most notably, LIVE! LIVE! NEWS! NEWS!, 3rd Degree Burn and The Deuces Wild Duo with Jackie Marriott.
As a director, Ken has directed several plays including Yasmine Rana's Risk, and a recent staged reading of Yasmine's most recent play The Fallen.
Ken is currently the Associate Artistic Director at Write Act Repertory.
While in the Dramatic Writing Program, Ken won the Lucille Lortel Playwriting Award for his one-act play, Angels at the Heavenly Gate, a play about the Tiananman Square riots of 1989 as well as winning the Graduate Award in Screenwriting for his screenplay, Chino-Latino. While in Graduate school, Ken also wrote for NBC and is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East. In 2003, Ken’s screenplay Dogwood Shade made it to the second round of the Sundance Screenwriting Competition.
Ken taught a writing for television class at NYU and currently teaches screenwriting at the University of Southern California.
While in Los Angeles, Ken has been a member of the Blacksmyths Playwriting Fellowship at the Mark Taper Forum and has written and performed in several sketch comedy groups. Most notably, LIVE! LIVE! NEWS! NEWS!, 3rd Degree Burn and The Deuces Wild Duo with Jackie Marriott.
As a director, Ken has directed several plays including Yasmine Rana's Risk, and a recent staged reading of Yasmine's most recent play The Fallen.
Ken is currently the Associate Artistic Director at Write Act Repertory.
