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.
Directed
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Video Violence (1987) — Director
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Video Violence Part 2 (1988) — Director
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Captives (1988) — Director
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Halloweenville (2011) — Director
- Video Violence: The S.O.V. That Wouldn't Die (2020) — Director
Also appeared in
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Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector (2013) — Self
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Video Violence Part 2 (1988) — Anchorman
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VHS Revolution (2017) — Self
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Captives (1988) — Barry Epstein
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Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story (1983) — Dr. Victor Frankenstein
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Halloweenville (2011) — Himself
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Pizza Party Massacre (2024)
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S.O.V. The True Independents (2018)
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Holiday Horror (2027) — Janitor/Groundskeeper (segment "Twin-lepathy")