Kaplan grew up in Staten Island, New York during the 70's. He bounced around a couple of schools before graduating from a highly progressive private school in Brooklyn Heights. He attended The University of Michigan, where he became adept at moving through large bureacracies while exploring the diverse culture found in Ann Arbor. There, Kaplan encountered the work of Bertholt Brecht and Edward Bond while studying world literature. Kaplan then lived in Seattle in the late 80's where the New City Theater performed his first feature length play, "The Meateaters' Comedy&q more...
