Gary P. Cohen
Born: 1952-03-11 in New York
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Holiday Horror as Janitor/Groundskeeper (segment "Twin-lepathy")
2024
2023
- Grandma ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Video Violence: The S.O.V. That Wouldn't Die ... (Director)
2017
- VHS Revolution as Self
2013
2011
- Halloweenville as Himself
1988
- Captives as Barry Epstein
- Video Violence Part 2 as Anchorman
1987
- Video Violence ... (Director)
1983
- Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story as Dr. Victor Frankenstein