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

VHS Revolution

2017•Movie•

6.3

Video Violence Part 2

1988•Movie•

5.8

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

2013•Movie•

6.5

S.O.V. The True Independents

2018•Movie

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

1983•Movie•

8.0

Holiday Horror

2027•Movie

Captives

1988•Movie•

5.0

Pizza Party Massacre

2024•Movie•

10.0

Filmography