Harley Kaplan

Harley Kaplan moved from Scotland to the United States as a child and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication Arts, he moved to New York City and began working as a production trainee for Fox Television. Odd-jobs, including a stint as a corporate floater for New Line Cinema, enabled Harley to study acting extensively; first as a student of Sandy Dennis, then with the New School/Actors Studio and Chicago City Limits. He also started working extensively in the theater, making the leap from Off-off Broadway to Off-Broadway productions. Harley is a co-founder and casting director with Powers/Kaplan Casting, a bi-coastal casting office that specializes in independent film. Current and upcoming projects include 8000 Shots, The Last Time I Saw You Blessed, The Glass Cage, Empathy Inc, Buck Run, Benji The Dove, New Money, Noble Earth, Swing Away, One Penny, and the television pilots, Bennie's, In Reality, and Couch Crashers. He started out in casting with the legendary office of Hopkins/Smith/Barden, where he worked as a casting assistant on movies such as Boys Don't Cry, The Cider House Rules, and Simply Irresistible, as well as HBO's television series Sex In The City. He later served as an associate with PalmStar and S2 Entertainment on an array of films, including Jack and Diane, For Ellen, Gun Hill Road, Union Square, Silver Tongues, and The Girl Is In Trouble. Since forming Powers/Kaplan in 2010, Harley has cast the award-winning Blue Ruin and The Comedy, as well as Mamarosh, The Sector, The Tell-Tale Heart, and promotional campaigns for Sony, Random-House, EF Language Schools, Carolina Herrera and Puristics. Harley has also written and produced short films and executive-produced the features Buck Run, Death4told, and Temptation.