DIRECTOR
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CLASSIC TEXTS
Ah, Wilderness Eugene O'Neill (In Russian and in English)
Dom Aktyura, the Theatrical Union Hall of Samara 2005 Samara, Russia

Eccentricities of a Nightingale Tennessee Williams (in Cantonese)
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre 2003 Hong Kong

Hedda Gabler (Acts I and II) Henrik Ibsen (in Cantonese)
Hong Kong Rep Workshop 2002 Hong Kong

King Lear William Shakespeare(in Uzbek)
Abror Hidoyatov Theater 1997 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

He Who Gets Slapped Leonid Andreyev
Eastern European Festival 1996 New York, NY

The Maids Jean Genet (in Mongolian)
Youth Theater 1995 Ulan Baator, Mongolia

A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare (in Buryat and Russian)
Buryati National Theater 1995 Ulan Ude, Buryatia

Auntie Mame Lawrence and Lee (in Russian)
Penza Drama Theater 1995 Penza, Russia

Macbeth William Shakespeare (in Russian)
Samara Drama Theater 1994 Samara, Russia

NOA The Book of Genesis (in Hebrew)
Liquid Theater 1994 New York, NY

Suddenly Last Summer Tennessee Williams (in Russian)
Samara Drama Theater 1993 Samara, Russia

Beautiful Dreamer Stephen Foster
Colorado Springs Summer Arts Festival 1992 Colorado Springs, CO

Man = Man Rap Bertolt Brecht
Boys Club of America 1989 East Harlem, NY

Painting Churches Tina Howe
Provincetown Players 1988 Cape Cod, MA

The Council of Love Oscar Panizza
HOME 1987 New York, NY

The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
Ensemble Studio Theater 1986 Los Angeles, CA

Faustus Lights the Lights Gertrude Stein
Ensemble Studio Theater 1985 Los Angeles, CA

The Circus of Dr. Lao Charles Finney
L.A. Theaterworks 1984 Los Angeles, CA

The Maids Jean Genet
Classic Stage Company 1983 New York, NY

Virtue Dissected Bertolt Brecht
University of New Mexico 1979 Albuquerque, NM

TEXTS WRITTEN BY TENNESEE WILLIAMS

The Day on Which a Man Dies 1959 (world premiere)
Links Hall, Chicago opens February 1, 2008

The Traveling Companion & The Chalky White Substance
Le Petit Theater, New Orleans; Columbus, Mississippi; Provinvctown 2007

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Hong Kong Rep, see above) 2003

Suddenly Last Summer (Samara, Russia, see above) 1993

Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
WestBeth, New York

Frosted Glass Coffin & Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot
Birmingham City Stages 1996 Birmingham, Alabama


PREMIERES
Where Your Heart Takes You Jessica Balboni
HERE New York, NY 198?

Andrea Rescued Harry Kondoleon
Double Image Theater 1983 New York, NY

Footlights Leslie Ayvazian
Corner Loft 1982 New York, NY

DIRECTOR LONG RUNNING
1980 -2003
June Recital adapted with Brenda Currin from the works of Eudora Welty
Chelsea Theatre Center NY 1980, The Second Stage NY 1985, Northlight Theatre Evanston 1987, Plays & Players Philadelphia 1989 Twenty city tour 1987: New Orleans, Florence SC, Jacksonville, AL etc., Boston Museum of Fine Arts 1992, Wilmington DE 1997, Chautauqua NY Tour 2003: Natchez, Jackson, Memphis, Oxford, Rennes France, etc. . Sound Room Recording Compact Disc released 2002

Ruth Draper Monologues with Patricia Norcia, 9 hour repertory includes The Italian Lesson
Chelsea Theatre Center NY 1980, Cherry Lane Theater NY 1983, London Duke of York‚s 1985, Tokyo 1987, 1988
Carnegie Recital Hall NY 1992 1993 1994, Munich's Gasteig Theatre Center 1998 1999 2000, Isabella Gardiner Museum 1985 In over twenty five states 1980-2003. Original Cast Record Compact Disc released 1999

DIRECTOR SPECTACLES
The Pink Ribbon Sarajevo Winter Arts Festival
Sarajevo, Bosnia 1996

Tale of the Dog Kyoto Puppet Festival
Kyoto, Japan 1993

The Benneton 25th Anniversary The Alvin Ailey Dancers and assorted musicians from around the world
Central Park Zoo New York City 1992

TableTop Theater Dick Zigun
Wax Musee 1981 Coney Island, NY

CURATOR
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Co-founder of the Festival. Curated the first (2006) Festival concentrating on texts Williams wrote in Provincetown, including the world premiere of The Parade. Curated the second (2007) Festival concentrating on texts Williams wrote after he turned 60 in 1971, including the world premieres of Sunburst and The Pronoun 'I'. Currently planning the third season with the theme of Tennessee Williams and the Healing Power of Love.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Ensemble Studio Theater. Produced 1987-88 season, including Defying Gravity, Tachinoki, Cherry Orchard,
Thurgood Marshall, The WestFest, Razkazy, SELA, Diary of a Bit Player, The Baron in the Trees. Season awarded for ethnic diversity and artistic excellence from California State Senate, the LA City Council, Mayor Tom Bradley. NAACP Image Award

LECTURER/ GUEST ARTIST
2003 Hong Academy of the Performing Arts, Stanislavsky and Imagery workshop
2002 Mississippi State, University of the South , Tennessee Williams and story-telling
2001 University of Southern California, Brecht, story-telling
2001 Moscow University, Samara, Branch Acting theory
2001-1993 Rutgers University, Shakespeare, Brecht lectures
1995-1992 Bard College, Acting
1995 Eastern Siberia Academy of Fine Arts, Theatre games, history (in Russian)
1994 Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts, Stanislavsky, Brecht
1994-1988 Hofstra University History of Theatre, Directing
1987 NYU, Text Analysis
1985 Columbia University, Design Collaboration
1984 Classical Stage Company, Text Analysis
1983 Double Image Theatre Company, Directing
1979 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Laban, Brecht
1979 National Shakespeare Company, Acting
1976-74 Clark University Laban
1999-1980 New York/ Professional Studio, Script Analysis, Stanislavsky, Brecht
1988-1983 Los Angeles / Professional Studio Script Analysis, Stanislavsky, Brecht

DIRECTOR, STUDENT PRODUCTIONS
University of New Mexico, CSC Conservatory NY: Virtue Dissected by Brecht; (U.S.) National Shakespeare Co: Tom Paine (Professional Studio showings: The Screens, A Dream Play, Iphigenia in Aulis, Dona Rosita (three times), The Maids (three times), Death Watch (two times), The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Venus and Adonis, Little Eyolf, Hedda Gabler, Red Devil Battery Sign, Westbeth in New York: Tennessee Williams Talk to Me Like the Rain, Perfect Analysis, The Traveling Companion.

Three professional theatre companies have formed out of these classes, including Artificial Intelligence the creators of Off Broadway's long-running Tony N Tina‚s Wedding. Students have won the Tony, Emmy, Outer Critic‚s Circle, LAWee and Dramalogue Awards.

PUBLICATIONS
Five Approaches to Acting, West Broadway Press, New York 2001
Italian edition, Dino Audino Editore, Roma September 2003
"Ruth Draper" in Extreme Exposure, TCG Press 2000

EDUCATION
1972-1973 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Dean‚s List
1973- 1976 B.A. cum laude Clark University, Worcester, MA Phi Beta Kappa (Drama major)
1976-1979 M.F.A. Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CN (Directing major)
Assistant to: David Mamet, Adrian Hall, Lee Breuer, Lou Criss
Language ability: Fluency in English, Russian.

REFERENCES
Stephen Holden, Critic, New York Times
Frederic Mao, Artistic Director, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre
Galina Kozlovskaya, Rector, Moscow University Pedagogical Institute, Samara Branch

DVD footage and reviews on request. There is a TASS documentary on the subject of the Russian premiere of Suddenly Last Summer.

REVIEWS
David Kaplan has staged with an unblinking eye for visual detail and a sharp ear for sonorous effect (re: Sister & Miss Lexie)
John Simon, New York Magazine

Genuine insights. Hilarious homage. Charming? Yes. Inspired? Indeed. (re: Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights)
Los Angeles Herald Examiner

David Kaplan ha adaptado y dirigido este arduo viaje hacia la consumacion teatral. (re:Circus of Dr. Lao)
Noticas del Mundo

Almost four decades after it was first presented The Maids has the timelessness of a ritualistic black mass.
Mel Gussow, NY Times

Midsummer Night's Dream is beautiful like the Siberian summer. We understand in this way the fascination of Shakespeare: hot, filled with humor, the dynamic portrait of our life, seen with the eyes of an American director.
Pravda Buryatia

An understanding of the themes and how to stage Tennessee Williams we have never seen on our stage before like the eruption of Versuvius (re: Suddenly Last Summer)
Samara Kultura

Aesthetically honesty and self-effacing in this era of designer as star Kaplan remembers that less is more (re: The Cherry Orchard)
Los Angeles Times