Cynthia Kaplan

CYNTHIA KAPLAN is the author of two acclaimed collections of comic essays, Why I’m Like This: True Stories and Leave the Building Quickly, and has contributed work to many newspapers and magazines. She leads the award-winning comedy rock band The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal and she co-hosts the long-running Ruthless Comedy Hour at Stand Up New York. She also writes for film and TV and has appeared in many plays and some films but never on Law & Order. Her comedy and music extravaganza, Cindy of Arc, was a finalist for the 2023 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater and made its regional debut at Intiman Theatre in Seattle in late 2023. It will be presented next by Baltimore Theatre Project in May 2024. Follow her at www.cynthiakaplan.com, www.cindyofarc.com or @cindyofarc on TikTok for her broadcast: Today In the History of the Patriarchy.