Bruce Eric Kaplan

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Bruce Eric Kaplan (born 1964 or 1965)

dark humor. Kaplan is also a screenwriter and has worked on Seinfeld and on Six Feet Under. Kaplan wove his New Yorker cartooning into Seinfeld with the episode, "The Cartoon."[2] He graduated from Wesleyan University and studied there with Professor Jeanine Basinger
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Kaplan joined the crew of Six Feet Under during the first season in 2001, as a supervising producer. He scripted two episodes of the first season, "The Foot" and "The New Person." He was promoted to co-executive producer for the second season in 2002 and wrote another two episodes, "The Invisible Woman" and "The Secret." He remained a co-executive producer for the third season, in 2003, and wrote an episode entitled "The Trap". He was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season, in 2004, and wrote another episode, "The Dare." He served as executive producer during the fifth and final season and wrote his last episode "The Silence." Kaplan wrote seven episodes for the series. In 2012, he became a co-executive producer on, and wrote for, the HBO series Girls.

Books

Six Feet Under episodes

  • The Foot (2001)
  • The New Person (2001)
  • The Invisible Woman (2002)
  • The Secret (2002)
  • The Trap (2003)
  • The Dare (2004)
  • The Silence (2005)

Seinfeld episodes

References

  1. ^ Shulman, Dave (July 25, 1996). "Pushing the Envelope: The New Yorker's Bruce Eric Kaplan on de Kooning and Cartooning". LA Weekly. p. 33. Originally from Maplewood, New Jersey, the 31-year-old Kaplan lives here now...
  2. ^ Tom Heintjes. "BEK to the Drawing Board: An Interview with Bruce Eric Kaplan, Hogan's Alley #9, 2001". Cartoonician.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2012.

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