Biography

Dianna Cohen is based in Los Angeles, California and is the daughter of director Robert Carl Cohen. She is Co-Founder and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition and a passionate advocate working towards a just, equitable, regenerative world free of plastic pollution. She shared her vision in TEDTalks (2006) "Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution." Dianna and the Plastic Pollution Coalition team work within the entertainment industry to Flip the Script on Plastics, an initiative aimed at changing the perception of plastic pollution in Hollywood, and eliminating single-use plastics from scripts and sets. Dianna served as co-executive producer for the Emmy-award winning film The Story of Plastic (2019) and worked on the documentary Straws (2017) with Wallace J. Nichols and Jackie Nuñez. She has also appeared in Out of the Bag (2015)(2015), Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2013), 2 episodes of Living with Ed (2007) with Ed Begley Jr. and Rachelle Carson-Begley, and The EcoZone Project (2007) with Daisy Fuentes and Patrick Warburton. As a visual artist, Dianna uses plastic in her artwork to challenge perceptions about this most ubiquitous material.

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