Steve Kaplan
Consultant and script doctor to such companies as Dreamworks, HBO, Disney, ABC, NBC, Paramount, Touchstone Television and others, Steve Kaplan has coached and developed the best writers of American television.
Produced Comedy Seminars and Performance Workshop. Australia 2007.

For the past 15 years, Steve Kaplan has coached and developed the best writers of American television - Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Big Love, Ugly Betty, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Larry Sanders Show - and the industry's top stars such as Jack Black, Nathan Lane and Nia Vardalos.

He regularly serves as a consultant and script doctor to such companies as Dreamworks, HBO, Disney, ABC, NBC, Paramount, Touchstone Television and others.

He created the HBO Workspace and the HBO New Writers Project, discovering HBO Pictures screenwriter Will Scheffer (Big Love) and introducing and developing performers such as Kathy Griffin (Ugly Betty), Bob Odenkirk (Mr Show, Saturday Night Live), David Cross (Arrested Development) and Josh Malina (The West Wing). Kaplan was Executive Producer for the critically acclaimed HBO Original Programming documentary Drop Dead Gorgeous and developed and directed one woman shows in regional theatres and Off-Broadway with Nora Dunn (Saturday Night Live), Lauren Tom (Grey's Anatomy) and Sandra Tsing Loh (Aliens in America), amongst many others.

In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities, Steve was co-founder and Artistic Director of New York's Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, where from between 1979 to 1992 he developed writers such as Mark O'Donnell (Hairspray), Peter Tolan (Analyze This), David Crane (Friends), Tracy Poust (Ugly Betty, Will & Grace), Michael Patrick King (Sex in the City), David Ives (All In The Timing), Kenneth Lonegan (You Can Count On Me), and coached such performers as Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King), Oliver Platt (The West Wing), Veanne Cox (Erin Brokovich), Sam McMurray (Raising Arizona), Vickie Lewis (Finding Nemo) and Illeana Douglas (Rockett, Six Feet Under).

Click here to view the tour page for Steve Kaplans 2007 Melbourne and Sydney shows.

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