Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
She currently lives in Cambridge, Master of Arts, where she is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company as well as a Next Voices Playwriting Fellow with New Repertory Theatre. Lila Rose Kaplan writes modern myths and bittersweet comedies that delve into the mysteries of human relationships. Her play Wildflower made its Office-Broadway debut in 2009 at Second Stage Uptown and was published by Dramatists Play Service.
Her other works include We All Fall Down, Home of the Brave, 100 Planes, Bureau of Missing Persons, and Tink.
Her plays have been seen and/or developed at Second Stage, Arena Stage, Louisiana Jolla Playhouse, The Old Vic, Chalk Representative, Perishable Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Theatreworks, PlayPenn, The Lark et cetera Awards include The National Science Award in Playwriting, The International Women"s Playwriting Award, The Shank Playwriting Fellowship, and the I.J. Kapstein Award in Playwriting.
In 2010, She was selected as an Old Vic/New Voices Thomas Stearns Eliot Exchange Playwright and Gladiators, one of her short plays, debuted at the Old Vic in London. Mississippi Kaplan has been in residence at Harvard Business School, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
She is a graduate of Brown University, where she studied with Sarah Ruhl and Paula Vogel.
She received her Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting from University of California San Diego, where she studied with Naomi Iizuka. Lila Rose has taught at University of California Santa Barbara, Westmont College, Dartmouth College, and Primary Stages. She is teaching at Lesley University and The Gamm Theatre in 2013. www.lilarose.org.
She is a proud founding member of The Playwrights Union in Los Los Angeles