Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 11, 1952
Place of Birth
New York
Credits
13 titles
Gary P. Cohen
Biography
Gary P. Cohen is the producing director of Plays-in-the-Park, a respected summer theater in New Jersey, where he has directed more than fifty plays and musicals. In the early 1970s he founded a 100-seat semiprofessional theater, where he honed his craft before joining Plays-in-the-Park in the 1980s. He is the author of The Community Theater Handbook (Heinemann, 2003). Cohen has co-authored Off-B'way's Frankenstein, A New Musical and A High School Monster Musical with Mark Baron, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. A former William Morris agent, Cohen has also written and directed three 80's cult shot-on-video horror films: Video Violence Video Violence Il, and Captives, currently on DVD & Blu-ray.
Known For
Filmography
Holiday Horror
Janitor/Groundskeeper (segment "Twin-lepathy")
Pizza Party Massacre
Grandma
Executive Producer
Video Violence: The S.O.V. That Wouldn't Die
Director
S.O.V. The True Independents
VHS Revolution
Self
Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector
Self
Halloweenville
Self
Captives
Barry Epstein
Video Violence Part 2
Anchorman
Video Violence
Director
Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story
Dr. Victor Frankenstein
Frankenstein - A New Musical
Adaptation