Dana Coen
Dana Coen was the co-executive producer of the long-running CBS series JAG (1997 to 2005) and Bones (2005). A television writer/producer, screenwriter, playwright and stage actor/director, Coen now teaches writing for the screen and stage program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Coen has more than 20 years of experience in television. He wrote for the prime-time series NCIS, Room for Two, Carol & Company and The Wonder Years and for the daytime soap opera General Hospital. From 1988 to 1990, he worked for the Walt Disney Company developing comedy series. He has written pilots for ABC, NBC, Fox, Jim Henson, Paramount Television and MCA Television. He won the Jewish Image Award for his JAG episode “The Promised Land” and the Movie Guide Epiphany Prize for another, “Second Sight.”
Coen also has written, produced and directed plays for theater companies in Los Angeles and New York. As an actor, he toured in the Broadway musical Shenandoah and has appeared in regional theatres across the country. He holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcasting and film from Boston University and a master’s in fine arts from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theatre.
