Nicole Elizabeth Cook

Nicole Elizabeth Cook (b. 1986) is the 2012 Playwright in Residence at , a collective promoting experimentation in the performing arts and supporting a dialogue between performing artists, philosophers, scientists, and audiences.

Nicole’s interests are the interdisciplinary relationships of painting, literature and performance. She also examines issues of gender, class, and race in art. She holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from Moore College of Art & Design and an MA from Temple University.

Nicole is excited to be workshopping of her first play, Quaaludes and Champagne at . The piece examines, questions, and revisions the statutory rape trial of a well-known film director in 1970s California. Nicole’s second play, currently titled Jungle Juice, will be presented as a work-in-progress reading Fall 2012 at .

Nicole is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware, specializing in early modern art of Northern Europe. Her dissertation will focus on the intersections between 17th-century Dutch theater and painting in a post-Iconoclasm world.