Biography

Peter Cohn is a director, producer and screenwriter. His debut film was "Drunks," which premiered at Sundance in 1996, and went on to broadcast on Showtime and to a theatrical release in the US and abroad. "Drunks" depicts a group of New Yorkers at a Times Square AA meeting and stars Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Dianne Wiest, Parker Posey, Spalding Gray, and Calista Flockhart. The cast also included Sam Rockwell, in a cameo performance as Richard Lewis's AA sponsee.

Cohn went on to produce and direct documentaries, including "Golden Venture," about Chinese immigrants on the ill-fated freighter that ran aground off New York in 1993; "Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America," about the shocking persistence of gender violence in America, and "Holy Land," a film about Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank. Cohn is an active members of the New Day Films filmmaker distribution cooperative.

Cohn has also written screenplays for MGM, Disney, Fox and a variety of independent producers in the US and abroad. He was a co-founder of the Wall Street Journal parody publication, Off the Wall Street Journal, and produced and edited a series of other parodies and satirical publications in the 1980s. He began his career in daily journalism, at the Richmond Times Dispatch and then the Hartford Courant.

He was born in New Haven, CT and spent his childhood in New York and Washington DC.
- IMDb mini biography by: Peter Cohn

Son of talent agent Sam Cohn and June E. O'Neill. Half brother of Marya Cohn.

Graduate of the University of Chicago, editor Chicago Maroon. Received an MS in education. Has taught film at NYU.