Darren R. Cohen: Musical Director - Vocal Coach - Author

Darren R. Cohen conducting — Darren conducting at Barrington Stage Company

As a professional musical director and vocal coach in NYC for over 20 years, my experiences span across Broadway, Summer Stock, Cabarets, Off-Broadway, National Tours, soundtracks and publications. Located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, I have one of the largest musical theatre sheet music collections in the country, including the most current shows running in New York as well as the most obscure.

Current clients represented in the following presently running or recently closed Broadway shows: Jagged Little Pill, Chicago, Lion King, American in Paris, Once on This Island, Pretty Woman, Company, The Prom, The Color Purple, Les Miserables, The King and I, The Book of Mormon, Sunday in the Park, Fiddler on the Roof, Aladdin, On the Town, Night With Janis Joplin, Porgy and Bess, A Chorus Line, Beautiful, On Your Feet, Wicked, Amazing Grace, Fun Home, It Shoulda Been You and Memphis.

My clientele also includes college students, and post college students just beginning their journeys.

Random Memories

Image of Me, Michael, Tony Yazbeck, Elizabeth

Me, Michael Scirrotto, Tony Yasbeck, Elizabeth Stanley

Barbara Walsh, Paige, Becca Ayers, Eliz Stanley, Joe Calarco, Alan Green

Pirates Orchestra
2016

Image of Lindsay O'Neil, Jacqueline Petroccia

Me, Lindsay O'Neil, Jacqueline Petroccia (Pirates)
2016

Me and 蔡柏璋 Pao-Chang Tsai (TPAC)
Taipei, Taiwan
October 2016

Pat McCorkle, Jeff Dreisbach, Scarlett Strallen, Me (Pirates)
August 2016

Jerry Herman and I (Mack and Mabel rehearsals)

Backstage at NBC Studios (Howie Mandel Show)
with the women of CHICAGO

Image of Marilyn McCoo and Billy David Jr

Me and Marilyn McCoo and Billy David Jr (aka The 5th Dimension)
1998

Me, Alexis Fishman, Matt Scharfglass, Jeff Roberts

James Naughton, Jan Miner (Madge - the Palmolive Lady), Me
1994?

Me and Rachel York (The Game)

Me, Justin Scott Brown, Matt Rodin

Cast of Les Miz at Temple Square after being invited to hear the choir.
2013

Men of La Mancha

Debby Boone and Me (Human Comedy)

Me, Julie Boyd, Jeff McCarthy, Tom Robbins, Felicia Boswell
after WAMC radio show

Opening night of MMAS. Me and Bill Finn
October 2007

Kyle Dean Massey and Me (Pirates Closing Night)
Aug 2016

Me and Kaye Ballard - Monterey, CA

Make Me a Song Cast (New World Stages)
2007

Opening night of Next to Normal at Baltimore Center Stage

One of my fabulous classes in Tel Aviv!!!!
2014

Christine, Me, Jeff

Image of Stephen Sondheim with cast of Sweeney

Stephen Sondheim with cast of Sweeney
July 2010

Image of Joan Rivers with cast of Make Me a Song

DB Bonds, Me, Sally Wilfert, Joan Rivers and Sandy Binion (Backstage after MAKE ME A SONG)
Nov. 2007

Eliz Stanley, Anne Nathan, Harriet Harris!!!!

Cast and Creative Team of Pirates of Penzance (Barrington Stage Co)
July 2017

Image of Opening Night of Daddy Long Legs

Opening Night of Daddy Long Legs (George Street Playhouse)
12/17

Mark Evans, Felicia Needleman, Me, Martin Charnin, Laurence Holzman
(Wallenberg Workshop)
September 2016

Dick Decareau, Me, Joanna Glushak, Paul Vogt (California State Fair)
Hairspray at Sacramento Music Circus
August 2008

Image of Next to Normal Cast in elevator

Every cast needs an elevator pic

Julie Boyd, Me, Ed Dixon, Harriet Harris, Tim Shew
2010

Brad Oscar, Joanna Glushak, Julie Boyd, Me (Fiddler Opening)

Me in some pit, somewhere

Image of Paul Anthony Stewart, Elis Stanley

Kiss Me, Kate (Elizabeth Stanley, Paul Anthony Stewart, Me, Julie Boyd)
2014

Claire Saunders, Me, Tommy Bracco, Alanna Saunders, Darius Barnes, Benjamin Rivera
Pirates Tech Rehearsal
July 2016

Me, Tony Roberts, Sally Wilfert
2007

Me practicing (Beehive - Asolo Theatre)

Me & Tommy Bracco
July 2016

Christine Dwyer, Cole Burden, Me, Tommar Wilson, Anastasia McClesky (Murder Ballad - first day of rehearsal)
Studio Theatre -Washington

Pirates Full Company
Aug 2016

Jerry Herman and I

Make Me a Song Company (New World Stages) - Bill Finn
2007

Follies
2005

Me and Joan Fontaine in Carmel, CA

Me and Phillip Boykin (Pirates of Penzance)
2016

Me and Georgia Engel (Dear World at Goodspeed)

Me and Brad Oscar (Closing night of Fiddler)

Dana Moore, Roslyn Kind, Me, Marianne McCord
Opening night of CHICAGO in Los Angeles
1998

Musical Theatre Class in Taipei, Taiwan (TPAC)
2016

Dr. Ruth telling me I have no sex problems!!! (Fiddler)

Gershwini Revue

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Sweeney Todd Cast
2010

Image of Peggy Pharr Wilson, Me, Debra Jo Rupp

Mark Dold, Elizabeth Stanley, Tristen Wilson, Peggy Pharr Wilson, Me, Debra Jo Rupp

Not too happy being photographed while conducting
May 2017

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of R&H

R&H w/Alan Green, Nick Rodriguez, Alysha Umphress, Alexandra Silber
2020

Michael Rupert and I outside our lovely house in Pittsfield
(during rehearsals for On The Town)
July 2013

Richard Adler and Me (Off-Key - George Street)
1996 (?)

Me and Roslyn Kind rehearsing

David Garrison and Me (Pirates of Penzance)
Aug 2016

Joe Cassidy and Me
Wallenberg - 2016

Me, Kim Hale and cast of the Olympic Gala in D.C. performing ALL THAT JAZZ for NBC Sports
2015

Cast of Follies w/ Mr S right in the middle
July 2005

Me and Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd)
2010

Me and Debby Boone (Human Comedy)

David Schweizer, Me, Dan Knechtges (Next to Normal)

Outside the Ahmanson Theatre (after performance of Chicago)
1998

Dr Ruth and I rehearsing

Leslie Kritzer and Me (Guys and Dolls)

Jesse, Andre, Me

Ben Michael, Elise Vennerson, Jane Pole, Michael Mastro, and Me (Daddy Long Legs)
12/17

Opening night of La Mancha

Me and Jane Carr(David Garrison's barbecue)
7/17

Cast of Zorba (Ron Holgate, Anita Gillette, Glory Crampton, Natalie Toro...)
October 2001

John Rando, Josh Bergasse, Julie Boyd, Me

Another amazing musical theatre class in Tel Aviv
2014

Cast of Off-Key (George Street) Me, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Bill C Davis, Richard Adler
1994?

John Rando, Elis Stanley, Me, Alysha Umphress, Tony Yazbeck, Sarah
Clyde Alves,& Jay Armstrong Johnson

Christianne Tisdale, Me, Josh Davis , Michael Jablonski
(Les Miz at Pioneer Theatre)
2013

Bristol Orchestra

Me and Tovah Feldshuh (opening night of MMAS)
2007

Peggy Pharr Wilson, Me, Debra Jo Rupp

THE GAME - cast

Alan Thicke and Family (and Me) after
a taping of the Howie Mandel Show at NBC Studios in LA.
1998

Richard Adler and Me
1995

Leslie Denniston, Marni Nixon, Julie Boyd, Me, Donna McKechnie, Kim Crosby

Just Me

Image of Elizabeth Stanley, Me, Tony Yazbeck

Deanna Doyle, Elizabeth Stanley, Me, Tony Yazbeck, Chloe Campbell
2013

In deep thought

Me & Harriet Harris (Sweeney Todd)
July 2010

International Olympic Gala in D.C
2015

Gala

Just because I love her....Tamara Tunie
2016

Image of Murder Ballad Cast at Studio Theatre

Nancy Bannon, Me, David Muse, Tommar Wilson, Anastacia McClesky, Christine, Dwyer, Cole Burden
Murder Ballad at Studio Theatre

Tommy Bracco, Jo Sullivan Loesser, and Me (Guys and Dolls)

The best orchestra at Sacramento Music Circus!!!

Where should we go for lunch? (Wallenberg Workshop)
2016

Me and Nancy Opel (opening of On The Town)
2013

Amazing Musical Theatre Class (TPAC)
Taipei, Taiwan
October 2016

Cast of On The Town
July 2013

Kyle Dean Massey, David Garrison, Will Swenson, Scarlett Stratton, Me, Julie Boyd
8/17

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