Name Lila Kaplan | Role Playwright | |
Education Brown University, University of California, San Diego | ||
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Lila Rose Kaplan (born July 1, 1980 in New York, NY) is a 21st-century American playwright. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company as well as a Next Voices Playwriting Fellow with New Repertory Theatre.
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Lila Rose Kaplan writes heartfelt comedies, bittersweet dramas, and musicals for young people. Her plays include Home of the Brave, Jesus Girls, The Magician’s Daughter, 1 2 3 - a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing, We All Fall Down, Wildflower, Bureau of Missing Persons, and The Biography of a Constellation. Her musicals for young people include: The Light Princess, The Pirate Princess, and The Magic Fish. Productions include: A.R.T., South Coast Rep, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Victory Theatre, Second Stage, San Francisco Playhouse, Neighborhood Productions, Know Theatre, and Perishable Theatre. Development includes: Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Theatreworks, PlayPenn, and The Lark. Awards: Artistic Achievement Award from M.R.T., National Science Award in Playwriting and The International Women's Playwriting Award. Fellowships include: Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, Playwrights’ Realm Writing Fellow, Old Vic/New Voices Exchange, and the Shank Fellowship. Residencies include: New Rep Next Voices, Harvard Business School, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. BA with Honors: Brown University. MFA in Playwriting: UC San Diego. Lila Rose currently lives in Cambridge with her marine biologist and her curious daughter. www.lilarose.org
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Theatrical credits
Kaplan's play Wildflower, about a woman and her troubled son escaping their past in Crested Butte, botany, and sexual awakening was developed at PlayPenn Conference in 2008 directed by Sarah Rasmussen and premiered at Second Stage Theater in New York City in 2009 directed by Giovanna Sardelli. It is published by Dramatists Play Service.
Her play Biography of a Constellation won the 2010 National Science Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center. It explores the myth and life of Annie Jump Cannon, one of the Harvard Computers who developed the system of classifying stars into the spectral classes O, B, A, F, G, K, M.
Her exploration of the changing relationship between two sisters, Catching Flight debuted at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in 2006 directed by Rosalie Purvis.
Her three short works, Duet, Panda Porn, and Amy & The Unicorn were part of the Camden Fringe Festival in London in 2010. In the same year, her one act about the onset of marriage, The Chapel Play, was part of the Chalk Repertory Theater Flash Festival in Los Angeles.