Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

Synopsis

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.

Main Cast

Ron Vawter

Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

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Coco McPherson

Chica

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jill Godmilow
Editing	Editorial Production Assistant	Patricia Sztaba Stan Sztaba
	Editor	Merril Stern
Production	Executive Producer	Jonathan Demme
	Producer	Marianne Weems Ted Hope James Schamus
Sound	Music	Michael Sahl
	Supervising Sound Editor	Bill Seery
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Reilly Steele
Camera	Camera Operator	Susanna Virtanen
	Director of Photography	Ellen Kuras
Writing	Writer	Jill Godmilow Gary Indiana
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Kathryn Nixon
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