Gary P. Cohen

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

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

as Himself

Video Violence Part 2

as Anchorman

VHS Revolution

as Self

Captives

as Barry Epstein

Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story

as Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Halloweenville

as Himself

S.O.V. The True Independents