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Gary P. Cohen

Directing · Born 1952-03-11 · New York

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

2027Holiday HorrorJanitor/Groundskeeper (segment "Twin-lepathy")
2024Pizza Party Massacre
2023GrandmaExecutive Producer
2020Video Violence: The S.O.V. That Wouldn't DieDirector
2018S.O.V. The True Independents
2017VHS RevolutionSelf
2013Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS CollectorSelf
2011HalloweenvilleHimself
1988CaptivesBarry Epstein
1988Video Violence Part 2Anchorman
1987Video ViolenceDirector
1983Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True StoryDr. Victor Frankenstein
—Frankenstein - A New MusicalAdaptation

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