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CATHY CAPLAN
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency
Cathy Caplan. Cathy Caplan's plays includeLapis Blue Blood Red, about the 17th-century painter artemisia Gentileschi, andSilver Nitrate, which recreates photographs from 1930s Berlin. She received a new play commission from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture for Silver Nitrate. She co-authored hair, blood, vinylwith Rinde eckert and the Juggernaut Theatre Company for the 1997 New York International Fringe Festival. Ms. Caplan has also explored alternate narrative structures in Dramatic scripts for Grahame Weinbren's interactive cinema installations Sonata andMarch. She was a Juilliard playwriting fellow from 1992 to 1993, a Mabou Mines/Suite artist-in-residence in 2000, and one of the three-member team that co-directed and edited the academy award-winning documentary film American Dream,produced by Barbara Kopple. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Lapis Blue Blood Red Silver NitrateLapis Blue Blood Red
Synopsis:
Based on the tumultuous life of Italian Baroque painter artemisia Gentileschi, Lapis Blue Blood RedDramatizes an extraordinary woman's struggle to define herself in the face of overwhelming personal and social odds. the play samples from Gentileschi's letters and the official text of the trial of the man accused of raping her and stealing one of her paintings, unveiling the passion and complexity of a true 17th century story.
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1st Produced:
Splitting Image Theatre Company (Baltimore, Md, United States) 1995
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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90-95 min Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: 4 males, 4 females (7-8 actors possible: 3-4 males, exactly 4 females)
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Synopsis:
Silver Nitrate-- mingling Drama, music, song and photography--unfolds in three photographic studios across the three years (1930-1933) that lead to the imposition of laws that disallowed Jews from working in Germany as photographers. Once it penetrates that something is wrong outside the walls of the studio, the artists react in panic, confusion and blind self-interest. the art remains, but the artists are gone and their studios are empty. "Silver Nitrate"--referring to the chemical that reacts to light by coating film with darkness--illuminates the intersection of art and politics.
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1st Produced:
Blue Heron Theater, New York City 2003
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Juggernaut Theatre Company
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