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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-03-11 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

New York

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

Directing

2011

Halloweenville as Director

1988

Captives as Director

1987

Video Violence as Director

Crew

2011

Halloweenville as Cinematography

Editing

2011

Halloweenville as Editor

Production

2023

Grandma as Executive Producer

2011

Halloweenville as Executive Producer