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.