Debra Caplan is a theater scholar, composer/lyricist, and theater educator. In all three arenas, she tells stories about the past in order to better understand the present.
She is Associate Professor of Theater at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on Yiddish theater and drama, theatrical travel, artistic networks, and immigrant theater.
She is also a composer/lyricist, translator, director, and dramaturg. Her directing, dramaturgy, and translation work has appeared at Target Margin Theater, the New Yiddish Rep, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, CUNY's Center for the Humanities, Harvard University, the Yiddish Book Center, and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. From 2008-2009, sDebra Caplan is a theater scholar, composer/lyricist, and theater educator. In all three arenas, she tells stories about the past in order to better understand the present.
She is Associate Professor of Theater at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on Yiddish theater and drama, theatrical travel, artistic networks, and immigrant theater.
She is also a composer/lyricist, translator, director, and dramaturg. Her directing, dramaturgy, and translation work has appeared at Target Margin Theater, the New Yiddish Rep, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, CUNY's Center for the Humanities, Harvard University, the Yiddish Book Center, and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. From 2008-2009, she was the founding director of the Harvard Yiddish Players. With Joel Berkowitz, she co-founded The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, a research collective that applies digital tools to the study of Yiddish theater. She regularly applies Digital Humanities tools to her research, and writes about DH in theater.
She currently serves on the boards of Luna Stage and the Yiddish Book Center. ...more