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Samuel Eli Cohen approaches each historical project through close research before developing plot structure or character arcs. His television adaptation of the life of Edward III required work with medieval chronicles, diplomatic records, genealogical archives, and modern scholarly interpretations of the fourteenth century. The research process helped him understand Edward’s world not only as a sequence of military events but as a landscape shaped by chivalry, plague, politic

Samuel Eli Cohen begins his screenwriting work with research. Before outlining a script or shaping a character arc, he spends extensive time gathering primary and secondary sources that help him understand the world he wants to write about. Caravaggio was one of his major projects in 2024, and the research process for that project taught him how to use archival documents, art historical scholarship, and biography to build a television narrative that feels grounded and lived i

Samuel Eli Cohen draws much of his inspiration for writing stories set in the ancient world from a lifelong engagement with classical literature, museum collections, and the surviving art of early civilizations. His earliest fascination came from reading Greek tragedies such as Antigone , where a single figure can stand against a political order through moral conviction. These ancient heroines, who navigate power, duty, gender, and resistance, continue to shape his sense of h

Hercules, known to the Greeks as Herakles, is one of the most enduring heroes of the ancient Mediterranean, appearing in literature and art from the early Archaic period through late antiquity and well into the Renaissance. His myth centers on the Twelve Labors, a cycle of penitential feats imposed by King Eurystheus after Hera drove him into a madness that caused him to kill his family. These labors, which include slaying the Nemean lion, capturing the Ceryneian hind, and re