Playwright:Lila Rose Kaplan

Bureau of Missing Persons

A man loses his wife. A fourth grade teacher loses a child at the zoo.  They are both sent to a cave in Pakistan to look for the loved ones they lost by a maid obsessed with obituaries. This play is an exploration of what it means to be missing and how we recover from catastrophic loss.

Biography

Lila Rose Kaplan is a third year MFA playwright. Lila Rose's plays have been produced at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Looking Glass Theater, and The Baldwin New Play Festival. Her plays have been developed at Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mixed Blood, and The Culture Project among others. In 2008, Lila Rose was a finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights' Conference and a nominee for the Wasserstein Award. Lila Rose's play "Wildflower" will be workshopped at PlayPenn in Philadelphia this summer. Starting in the fall, she will be the Shank Playwriting Fellow at Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles.

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