Professor Ruby Cohn

What a lovely, insightful remembrance of Ruby! I was fortunate to have been her student at UC Davis in the early 1980s. Ruby was fiercely devoted to her students, attending experimental plays of ours not just in Davis, but throughout the Bay Area. Whether she was teaching French dramatic literature or Beckett, Ruby pushed us to write well, think clearly and defend our opinions. Ruby Cohn helped us find a moral compass with which to guide our art, to be sure, but we also felt her warmth,...