Jake Cohen (actra app.)

Jake Cohen (he/him) is a Montréal-born/based performer and proud alumnus of the theatre program at Dawson College, where he received the Bertrand A. Henry Memorial Award upon his graduation. He then worked with Moment Factory on their VROOM! multimedia drive-in movie experience, and was a cohort member of Mainline Theatre’s first Propeller Program for emerging artists. Jake has collaborated on workshops and readings with companies including Playwright’s Workshop, Geordie, Infinitheatre, and Teesri Duniya. Selected performance credits include Menakhem in The Sages of Chelm (Segal/DWYT), Henry in Next to Normal (Contact Theatre), Hamlet in The Bad Hamlet (Dome), and various roles in the Segal Centre/Tableau D’Hôte’s Voices From The Pandemic series.

For his work in Next to Normal, Jake received a META for Outstanding Supporting Performance (Independent Production), and was nominated for Outstanding Emerging Artist (Performance).

When not performing, you can find Jake teaching theatre to some very talented kids across the city, including with Geordie Theatre School, Montreal Children's Theatre, and Segal Academy. He is deeply passionate about theatre education as a way of encouraging self-expression among young people, and allowing them to discover their capacity for teamwork, empathy and play!

Jake is currently studying Acting at the National Theatre School of Canada.