David KaplanDavid Kaplan is curator and co-founder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, now in its tenth year. He is the author of the biography /Tennessee Williams in Provincetown/and editor of the centennial collection of essays, /Tenn at Oe Hundred/. He has written two series of college textbooks: /Five Approaches to Acting/and /Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz/. Kaplan has staged Tennessee Williams plays worldwide: /Suddenly, Last Summer/in Russia in Russian, /Ten Blocks on the Camino Real/in Uruguay in Spanish, and /The Eccentricities of a Nightingale/in Hong Kong in Cantonese. In 2008 he directed the world premieres of Williams /The Day on Which a Man Dies/in Chicago and /The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View/in Boston. At the New Orleans Tennessee Williams Festival he's staged Williams /The Traveling Companion/, /The Chalky White Substance/, and /The Hotel Plays/. Read More Read Less