Charlotte Cohn was appointed ATG’s Producing Artistic Director in 2026, assuming the role from co-founder Jim Vagias. She is a recent recipient of the Denham Fellowship Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) which is awarded annually to women who are early and mid-career directors to further develop their skills. Her directing highlights include My Italy Story and Canned Goods (both for ATG), Walden (Premiere Stages), Church & State (Berkshire Theatre Group), The Whole Shebang and Baltimore in Black and White (The Cell Theatre, NYC) and Best Friends (Jazz at Lincoln Center). She has appeared on Broadway in La Boheme and Coram Boy and her producing credits include Here Lies Love (Broadway), Without You (starring Anthony Rapp) and Handle with Care and Church and State by Jason Odell Williams.  Cohn is an Ovation Award Winner and a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award nominee. Her original musical The Sound, based on her father's true story of escaping from Denmark to Sweden in WWII, was recently presented at the JCC in Rochester, NY.  www.thesoundmusical.com  @cohncharlotte. 

photo by: Russ Rowland