STEPHANIE KLAPPER

Stephanie Klapper is a New York-based casting director and the founder of Stephanie Klapper Casting (SKC), an independent casting group. Her award-winning work is frequently seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, on concert stages, film, and television. Select recent credits include the upcoming new musical Mythic (Fall 2025 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/dir. Kathleen Marshall); The Crooked Cross (Mint Theater Off-Bway, Fall 2025); Garside’s Career (Mint Theater); The Night of the Iguana (Signature Theatre Center, Off-Broadway); Dig (Primary Stages); All’s Well That Ends Well (New York Classical Theatre); The Age of Innocence (Arena Stage); Ahrens and Flaherty’s Knoxville (Clarence Brown); The American Five (Ford’s Theatre); world premiere of Karen Zacharias’ Shane (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/The Guthrie); Peterborough Players, Cape Playhouse. Select film/other media: standby (with Reed Birney); Netuser (with Denis O’Hare); ElfQuest, audio movie; Ranked, the musical/HBO Documentary; LazyTown. 

A graduate of New York’s Music and Art High School (the “Fame School”) and SUNY College at Purchase, she is a frequent guest teacher and lecturer at many colleges and universities around the country, including NYU’s New Studio on Broadway, USC, UNCSA, Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester, and ESPA at Primary Stages. She is a mentor with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Women’s Mentorship Program and Fordham High School for the Arts.

Stephanie and her team at SKC are passionate about arts education and working with creative teams to develop new work and expand the scope of established work. Connecting creative, caring people to each other to make extraordinary things happen along with working with emerging artists to help them develop their careers is amongst her greatest joys.

Board Member: Casting Society Cares; Member: Casting Society; Jimmy Awards Preliminary Judge; Advisory Board: Say Gay Plays. www.klappercasting.com