Jake Cohen

Jake Cohen (he/him) is an award-winning actor, theatre creator, and musician. Proudly Montreal born and raised, he is a graduate of both the theatre program at Dawson College, and the Acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Selected performance credits include Spring Awakening (Soulpepper), Grow (Segal Centre), Kimberly Akimbo (Mirvish/Segal), Infinite Variety (Repercussion Theatre), The Sages of Chelm (Segal Centre/DWYT), and Next to Normal (Contact Theatre). He co-wrote and co-starred in Scrappy, which tied for Best Short Film and received the Audience Choice award at the 2024 ACTRA Montreal Short Film Festival. He has also collaborated on many workshops and readings with companies including Playwright’s Workshop Montreal, Geordie, Infinitheatre, and Teesri Duniya. For his work in Next to Normal, Jake received a 2022 META for Outstanding Supporting Performance (Independent Production), and was nominated for Outstanding Emerging Artist (Performance).

In the voiceover realm, he has dubbed for projects for Netflix and Apple TV, working across genres from crime thriller to children’s animation. He is particularly passionate, among other things, about music as a theatrical storytelling tool, and developing the most excellent new work with the most excellent collaborators he can find, in any medium he can get his hands on. Currently residing in Toronto, He looks forward to discovering how best he can apply his artistry to make daring, playful, and memorable contributions to the cultural landscapes of Canada and beyond!