Brian Cohen

Brian Cohen (he/him) has been described as a mix of Captain Kangaroo and General George Patton, perhaps because he was often making up camp on the spot and then demanding that everyone follow his lead. As Beam Center grew, he came to think of himself more as somewhere between Willy Wonka and Willy Loman. When Brian was a teenager, adults invited him into spaces and projects where they offered him an assortment of ageless identities and allowed him to choose the ones he wished to embody. Brian attended Columbia University and the best thing he got there was his spouse, Maggie. After college, Brian moved to Los Angeles and found an internship at an indie record company in El Segundo. In 1990, Brian moved back to NYC to work as the Director of Advertising for Elektra Records. On that same day, he met Daniel Kahn and the rest is Beam history.