LILA ROSE KAPLAN

Lila Rose Kaplan is from New York and lives in California.   Her plays include 123, 100 Planes, Tink, Bureau of Missing Persons, Wildflower, Catching Flight, and Biography of a Constellation.   Her plays have been produced and developed by Second Stage, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD, Perishable Theatre, Mixed Blood, New Dramatists, PlayPenn, and The Lark among others.  Lila Rose is a current nominee for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize.  In 2010, Wildflower will be published by Dramatists Play Service will, Tink will be featured at the Lit Moon International Theatre Festival, and three of Lila Rose’s short plays  (Duet, Amy & The Unicorn, and Panda Porn) will be part of the Camden Fringe Festival in England.   Lila Rose is the recipient of The Kennedy Center’s National Science Award in Playwriting, The Adele and Ted Shank Playwriting Fellowship, an EST/Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and the I.J. Kapstein Award in Playwriting. Lila Rose is a graduate of Brown University and she received her MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego, where she studied with Naomi Iizuka.   Lila Rose was in residence at Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles in 2009. She teaches playwriting at Westmont College where she is an Artist-in-Residence.   Upcoming projects include a collaboration with Chalk Rep in Los Angeles, a Studio Retreat at the Lark in NYC, and a commission from Launchpad at UC Santa Barbara.  Lila Rose belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and The Playwrights' Center. She is a proud founding member of The Playwrights Union in Los Angeles. www.lilarose.org.