Debra Caplan

Debra Caplan is Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department
of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College, City University of New
York. Her research focuses on Yiddish theater and drama, theatrical
travel, artistic networks, and immigrant theater and performance. She
was the founding Executive Director of Harvard’s Mellon School of
Theater and Performance Research and is currently a member of the Mellon
School’s Advisory Board. She is the co-founder of an interdisciplinary
research collective, The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, which is
currently developing several projects that apply digital humanities
tools to the study and preservation of Yiddish theater. Debra is also a
stage director, dramaturg, and translator for the theater. From 2012 –
2014, she was the dramaturg for Target Margin Theater, working with
director David Herskovits to develop two seasons of Yiddish theater
material.

Caplan has also worked as a faculty coleader in the Translation research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.