Gary P. Cohen
Director
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
Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector
as Himself 2013
Video Violence Part 2
as Anchorman 1988
VHS Revolution
as Self 2017
Captives
as Barry Epstein 1988
Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story
as Dr. Victor Frankenstein 1983
Halloweenville
as Himself 2011
Pizza Party Massacre
2024
S.O.V. The True Independents
2018