| Stephen Kaplan |
| As a playwright, Stephen's plays include: When the Mayonnaise Goes Bad (written with Will Nolan - The Vital Theatre Company); The Book of Daniel (Ukiah Theatre); And Jack Came Tumbling After (Old Globe Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and HERE and Lincoln Center Theatre's American Living Room Series); Tim Eless, Private Eye (with Noah Wyle at the Blank Theatre Company and City Theater);Self Addressed (LA's Hudson Theatre and Edinburgh Theatre Festival); and Oh, Happy We (The Theatre- Studio). He is also the bookwriter/lyricist for a musical version of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s The Long Walk to Forever. His work has been performed for Bill Clinton and has won the New American Comedy Showcase Award (for The Book of Daniel), Bank of America's Young Artist's Award, the California Young Playwright's Award, the Delaware 10-Minute Play Festival and is a five time winner of the Blank Theatre Company's Young Playwright's Competition. Stephen assisted writer Nan Knighton on Broadway’s The Scarlet Pimpernel and Saturday Night Fever, and her latest Broadway bound musical with Frank Wildhorn, Camille Claudel. He has also worked with directors Michael Blakemore on London’s world premiere of Michael Frayn’s Olivier-nominated Alarms and Excursions and Nicholas Martin on the New York workshop of Fully Committed. As an actor his TV/Film creditsinclude: Sing Sing, The War on The War on Drugs, Dark Rose, and All That (Nickelodeon). Theatre credits include : New York: A Loss of Color (World Premiere), The Pirates of Penzance, Joseph…, and Gypsy. Regional: The Full Monty, Urinetown, Annie (McCoy/Rigby), City of Angels, Hair, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Cabaret. Stephen is currently on faculty at Bergen County Academies and has also taught at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & Performing Arts (the "Fame" school) where he was the Chair of the Theatre Department, the Professional Performing Arts School in New York where he headed the playwriting and directing programs and taught in the musical theatre program, The Actor's Institute in New York where he taught musical theatre performance, and also at California State University, Northridge and California Lutheran College. Stephen is a graduate of the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. |
