Benjamin Cohen

Ben Cohen is a Brooklyn-based comedy filmmaker who joined the industry due to its “severe lack of Jewish White Male Comedy Writers.”

Born in California’s The Bay Area and raised in Decatur, GA, Ben Cohen grew up on a steady diet of 90s Sitcoms, Chaplin films, and observational Comedians.

He graduated from Georgia State University with an M.A. in Film Production & Screenwriting. He attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for undergraduate Film Studies. He also studied French Culture at The Sorbonne - University of Paris IV.

He began studying Sketch & Improv Comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Theatre in 2012. He has studied with Kevin Hines, Winston Noel, Brian Faas, Terry Withers, Brandon Gulya, Rachael Mason, Kerry McGuire, Nicole Drespel, Natasha Vaynblat, Sue Smith, and taken workshops with many more wonderful teachers.

Ben co-created the web-series, “Godamsterdam” and directed the short film, “Is It Because of My Penis?” Most recently, he co-wrote and produced the short, “Loose Ends.”

Ben’s work has appeared at The People’s Improv Theater, The High Museum of Art, CNN, The Atlanta Underground Film Festival, and The Examiner who called him, “One of the best filmmakers Atlanta has and will produce.”

Ben has directed team performers from New York’s UCB Theatre, Chicago’s Second City and IO Theaters, and Atlanta’s Dad’s Garage Theater Company. He has also been featured as a writer, director, and video editor on College Humor and Huffington Post and recently published in The Script Lab.

Ben is an active member of the Writer’s Guild of America - East. You can see Ben perform sketch, improv, and video comedy in New York City with his indie teams, Diddler on the Roof, 2 Single Guyz, and Cohenberg Kramerstein.

Ben teaches Screenwriting and Cinema Studies at the New York Film Academy.