Stephanie Klapper

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Stephanie Klapper (Stephanie Klapper Casting) is a New York-based, award-winning casting director whose work is frequently seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, on television, film, and on many streaming platforms.

Projects she has cast have won numerous awards, including the Tonys, OBIES, Artios, Drama Desk, Pulitzer Prize, Sundance Audience Award, Cannes Prize Du Publique, and Comic Con awards. Frequent and long time collaborators include Primary Stages, Mint Theater Company, New York Classical Theatre, american vicarious, The Peccadillo, Masterworks, Resonance Ensemble, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Capital Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Ford’s Theatre, Kansas City Rep, The New Theatre, and more.

She is a frequent guest teacher and lecturer at many colleges and universities around the country, including New York University (The New Studio on Broadway) and the Tepper Semester through Syracuse University, where she is a mentor to students interested in pursuing work in the casting profession. She is a mentor with NYU’s Women’s Mentorship Program.

Ms. Klapper is passionate about arts education and working with creative teams to develop new work and expand the scope of established work. She is dedicated to continuing to expand and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in the business. Connecting creative, caring people to each other to make extraordinary things happen is amongst Stephanie’s greatest joys. She loves working with emerging artists to help them develop their careers. Member of the National Board of the Casting Society of America, Casting Society Cares, and New York Women in Film.

Recent projects include: The Suffragist (with Nancy Opel); The Night of the Iguana (virtual production directed by Emily Mann); Manic Monologues (virtual for the McCarter Theatre and Princeton University); ElfQuest (the audio movie); Less Than or Equal To (film for Fair Housing Justice Center); Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories; Sideways the Experience; Grace, the Musical; A Sign of the Times; The 24-Hour Plays on Broadway Gala Celebrating Kathy Bates; Once on this Island; The Hope Hypothesis; The Importance of Being Earnest; Hamlet; Daniel’s Husband; A Letter to Harvey Milk; Pride and Prejudice (Kate Hamill); Candide and West Side Story (Philadelphia Orchestra). Select Recent Broadway includes: Bronx Bombers; A Christmas Story, the Musical; Dividing the Estate; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. Select Film/TV credits: Netuser (short film with Denis O’Hare); Epiphany V (short film); Theresa Rebeck’s Poor Behavior; Stag; Alice Jacobs is Dead (Adrienne Barbeau); The Feast of the Goat (Isabella Rossellini); Uncertain Terms; Altamont Now!; Sidewalk Stories; Roberta; Eve Ensler’s One Billion Rising, the video. Webisode: Battery Park, Parking Lot Chronicles, Highlights of a Mom’s Life. Television: “Lazytown.”