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Gary P. Cohen

Director · Born 1952-03-11 · New York

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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

  1. Video Violence (1987) — Director
  2. Video Violence Part 2 (1988) — Director
  3. Captives (1988) — Director
  4. Halloweenville (2011) — Director
  5. Video Violence: The S.O.V. That Wouldn't Die (2020) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector (2013) — Self
  2. Video Violence Part 2 (1988) — Anchorman
  3. VHS Revolution (2017) — Self
  4. Captives (1988) — Barry Epstein
  5. Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story (1983) — Dr. Victor Frankenstein
  6. Halloweenville (2011) — Himself
  7. Pizza Party Massacre (2024)
  8. S.O.V. The True Independents (2018)
  9. Holiday Horror (2027) — Janitor/Groundskeeper (segment "Twin-lepathy")