Stephen Kaplan

Stephen Kaplan is an award-winning playwright with productions off-broadway and in regional theaters nationally. Selected awards and productions: National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere: Tracy Jones (Finalist: ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest, B Street New Comedies Festival, Trustus Playwrights Festival); Long Drive Home (Theatre Aspen Solo Flights); Un Hombre: A Golem Story (Winner: Barbour Award; Finalist: Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival, Jewish Plays Project, Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Contest, Wild Imaginings Epiphanies; Development: NJ PlayLab); Branwell (and other Brontës) (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill); Community (Finalist: Seven Devils; Road Less Traveled National Residency, Semi-Finalist: Premiere Stages, March Forth Productions); Exquisite Potential (Theatre Ariel, Dezart Performs, Project Rushmore; Winner: NJ Playwrights Contest, Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival, Finalist: Woodward/Newman Award, Semi-Finalist: Seven Devils); A Real Boy (59E59 Theatre, Last Act Theater, This Is Water Theatre and Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn, Ashland New Play Festival, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest and MTWorks’ Newborn Festival); una casa/a home (Finalist: Landing Theatre’s New American Voices Reading Series, Route 66 Theatre’s New Play Development Program, Rorschach's Magic in Rough Spaces). SPACE at Ryder Farm. MFA: Point Park University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, serves as Northeastern Regional Representative for the DG National Council, and received a 2021 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information visit www.bystephenkaplan.com

Website: https://www.bystephenkaplan.com

Artistic Statement

Representation

Currently seeking representation

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The Headliners

by Jeffrey Neuman

A fascinating look into a story that most are unfamiliar with and, though it's set over a hundred years ago, feels completely contemporary and relevant. With deeply dimensional characters and a story that surprises and captivates, Neuman has crafted a dream play for actors to bite into and an engaging and heartbreaking tale. This story needs to be told and audiences will find themselves riveted and completely invested.

A fascinating look into a story that most are unfamiliar with and, though it's set over a hundred years ago, feels completely contemporary and relevant. With deeply dimensional characters and a story that surprises and captivates, Neuman has crafted a dream play for actors to bite into and an engaging and heartbreaking tale. This story needs to be told and audiences will find themselves riveted and completely invested.
In The Jar (a ten minute play)

by Mark Harvey Levine

Simultaneously silly and heart-warming, "In the Jar" was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it. It's had to find a slightly large-r cast for 10-minute plays and this play offers great opportunities for a variety of actors.

Simultaneously silly and heart-warming, "In the Jar" was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it. It's had to find a slightly large-r cast for 10-minute plays and this play offers great opportunities for a variety of actors.
First Things First

by Cynthia Faith Arsenault

A powerful play that captures two parents dealing with their past and their present and how it will all impact their future. It was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it.

A powerful play that captures two parents dealing with their past and their present and how it will all impact their future. It was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it.
Wheel of Fortune Reversed

by Scott Sickles

A beautiful and haunting piece that addresses death in a human and accessible way. It was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it.

A beautiful and haunting piece that addresses death in a human and accessible way. It was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it.
The Eighteenth Quinquennial Endlings Picnic

by Jillian Blevins

A lovely and haunting piece about the environment that finds humor alongside pathos. It was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it.

A lovely and haunting piece about the environment that finds humor alongside pathos. It was selected as part of our student-directed one-act play festival and was well received by the audience, and the cast and director had a blast working on it.

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Stephen Kaplan

Scripts

The Headliners

In The Jar (a ten minute play)

First Things First

Wheel of Fortune Reversed

The Eighteenth Quinquennial Endlings Picnic