DIRECTOR

DAVID KAPLAN

David Kaplan is curator and co-founder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival now in its 18th year. He pursues projects over decades. Plays directed by Mr. Kaplan have appeared in 40 of the 50 United States. He has directed plays staged in South Africa, Russia, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Ghana, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, and Mongolia, including productions performed to sold-out audiences at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York and at London’s West End. He has held classes for actors since 1980. He has taught and lectured at Bard, Clark, Hofstra, NYU, Colombia, Rutgers, The University of New Mexico, The University of the South, Mississippi State University, The Siberian Academy of Fine Arts (in Russian), the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Bilkent University in Ankara Turkey, Actuando sin Actuar in Mexico, the Metodi Festival in Italy, and the William Esper Studio in New York. Mr. Kaplan holds degrees from Clark University and the Yale School of Drama. In 1977, as a grad student at Yale he was David Mamet’s assistant for the double-bill of Mamet’s Reunion/Dark Pony.