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RESUME

Resume
Professional ​
info​​
Michael D. Kaplan

http://creative.michaelkaplan.net

Height: 6'0"

Vocal Range: Tenor/Baritone

CONTACT

Experience
Music + Voice

  • Live audio engineering for Gotham Rock Choir Concerts, Fête de la Musique Open Mic performance.

  • Tenor in backing choir, Rocktopia on tour (2018, 2019)

  • Tenor in backing choir for multi-platinum artists The Tenors (Dec 2017, 2018)

  • Tenor with Gotham Rock Choir. Sept 2016 – Sept. 2017

  • Composed, arranged, recorded and released solo album Flaud Logic (2013, ASCAP) 

  • Keyboardist/songwriter/vocalist in progressive-style rock band Pain Hertz. May. 2002 – Aug.2006

  • Vocalist/Lyricist in alternative rock band Simply Diesel. Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2004

  • Created/hosted episodes of a digital / Internet-based streaming radio program, 2002

  • Voiceover work for broadcast commercials, Time Warner Cable, Newburgh, New York, Aug. 1999

  • Engineered, Produced and Hosted FCC-licensed Radio Program, Progressive Universe: US, 1997–1999; UK, Fall 1998

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant/Lecturer, Binghamton University, 1997–99 – Musical Theater/MIDI; Trained students in utilizing state-of-the-art equipment to create original works of music.  Lectures included: the history of computers, binary/hexadecimal number systems, role of the internet.

  • Teaching Assistant, Binghamton University, Spring 1998 – Theory and Criticism of Drama; Helped design course curriculum, assisted/educated students in the use of cutting edge communication tools, and explored new ways of linking technology and performance art. 

  • Provided one-on-one training for audio professionals in the use of MIDI sequencing software 

Acting

Binghamton University:

  • Jack; “Seven Menus” by David Ives, Spring 1999

  • Ed Kaiser; “Visiting Dad” by Judith Fein, Spring 1999

  • Clown; “The Purple Dove” by Joshua Corin, Spring 1998

  • Extra in Numerous Student Films

 

University of East Anglia:

  • Yasha; “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov, Fall 1998

  • John; “Oleanna” by David Mamet, Fall 1998

  • Vi; “Come and Go” by Samuel Beckett, Fall 1998

  • Nominated to be an extra in BBC’s “Great Expectations”, 20/20 Casting UK, Oct. 1998

Directing

  • Original musicals: Game of Tones, Song of Scheherazade

  • Scene; “Measure for Measure” by William Shakespeare, University of East Anglia, 1998 

  • Producer of experimental short-form works in VHS video, Binghamton University, Fall 1997

 

Stage Management

  • “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” by Terrence McNally, Binghamton University, Fall 1996

 

Tech  

  • Prop Master, Lighting Asst., Set Construction; "You Can't Take it With You", The Fort Hill Players, 1999

  • Prop Master; "Gypsy", Binghamton University, April 1999

  • Set Construction; “When the Wind Blows”, University of East Anglia, Fall 1998

  • Stage Tech; “Guys and Dolls”, Binghamton University, Fall 1997 

Physical Training

CAPOEIRA ANGOLA

GROTOWSKI

HATHA YOGA

BALLROOM DANCE

TAI CHI

TANG SOO DO

Special Skills

ENGLISH

SPANISH

VOICEOVER & NARRATION

SINGING

COMPOSITION

HOME IMPROVEMENT

COMPUTER SCIENCE

LICENSED DRIVER

Training
Musical

  • Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced MIDI Technology and Practice

  • Jazz Theory for Adults

  • Piano: group and private lessons

  • Introduction to literature and Materials of Music

  • Classical Piano/Music Theory Training

  • Jazz Piano: private lessons, Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2004.

  • Opera/Sight Singing, Binghamton University, Spring 1999

 

 

Theatrical
  • The Actor and the Text

  • Creative Writing: Drama 

  • Shakespeare

  • Actor Training: the Meisner Technique

  • Theory and Criticism of Drama 

  • Translation and Adaptation of Drama / Introduction to Directing

  • Playwriting

  • Performance and Modern Culture, collaborative learning with Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater and the Moscow Conservatory.

 

Education

The Juilliard School, New York, NY
  • Literature and Materials of Music, Sept. 2003 – 2004

  • Composition, Private study with Kendall Briggs, PhD, 2004 – 2006

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Sept. 2001 – Jan. 2002

  • Jazz Theory

  • Private Piano Study

University of East Anglia, Norwich, England

​Sept. 1998 – Jan. 1999

  • Study Abroad Program

Binghamton University, State University of New York

1995 – 1999

  • Bachelor of Arts: Psychology, minor in Theater, May 1999

  • Dean's List, Cumulative GPA: 3.46

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