Cathy Caplan

Cathy Caplan was a Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright at The Juilliard School in '93-'94. Her plays include "Lapis Blue Blood Red" (based on the 17th-century rape trial and paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi); "Silver Nitrate" (inspired by photographic studios in 1930’s Berlin); "Model" (live re-creation of a mid-seventies fashion shoot), "hair-blood-vinyl" (with Rinde Eckert and Juggernaut Theatre Company). These plays have been produced or had readings at PS 122, HERE, NY International Fringe Festival, Naked Angels, Blue Heron, The Lark, HB Playwrights Foundation, Theater Project (Baltimore), Stamford Center for the Arts, and Guild Hall (East Hampton). These plays have received funding from NYSCA, National Council Jewish Culture, Bel Geddes, Laurie Tisch Sussman Foundations...

Cathy Caplan was a Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright at The Juilliard School in '93-'94. Her plays include "Lapis Blue Blood Red" (based on the 17th-century rape trial and paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi); "Silver Nitrate" (inspired by photographic studios in 1930’s Berlin); "Model" (live re-creation of a mid-seventies fashion shoot), "hair-blood-vinyl" (with Rinde Eckert and Juggernaut Theatre Company). These plays have been produced or had readings at PS 122, HERE, NY International Fringe Festival, Naked Angels, Blue Heron, The Lark, HB Playwrights Foundation, Theater Project (Baltimore), Stamford Center for the Arts, and Guild Hall (East Hampton). These plays have received funding from NYSCA, National Council Jewish Culture, Bel Geddes, Laurie Tisch Sussman Foundations, Liman Foundation, and AE Ventures. Ms. Caplan was resident artist at Mabou Mines and Women’s InterArt. "Lapis Blue Blood Red" is published in "Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002", "Playscripts", and "Actors Choice: Monologues for Men".

Scripts

Lapis Blue Blood Red

by Cathy Caplan

Synopsis

Based on the tumultuous life of Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, "Lapis Blue Blood Red" dramatizes an extraordinary woman's struggle to define herself in the face of overwhelming personal and social odds. The play samples from Gentileschi's letters and the official text of the trial of the man accused of raping her and stealing one of her paintings, unveiling the passion and complexity of a true...

Based on the tumultuous life of Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, "Lapis Blue Blood Red" dramatizes an extraordinary woman's struggle to define herself in the face of overwhelming personal and social odds. The play samples from Gentileschi's letters and the official text of the trial of the man accused of raping her and stealing one of her paintings, unveiling the passion and complexity of a true 17th century story.

Love Poison

by Cathy Caplan

Synopsis

Love Poison takes place in Scotland in the middle of the nineteenth century. Based on letters and the 1857 trial that ended with the unique Scottish verdict, “not proven,” it tells the story of an illicit love affair between the daughter of a well known Glaswegian architect and a French-speaking young man which ends with her poisoning him with arsenic in hot cocoa.

Love Poison takes place in Scotland in the middle of the nineteenth century. Based on letters and the 1857 trial that ended with the unique Scottish verdict, “not proven,” it tells the story of an illicit love affair between the daughter of a well known Glaswegian architect and a French-speaking young man which ends with her poisoning him with arsenic in hot cocoa.