A native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Michael Kaplan wrote plays and musicals throughout high school and at Princeton University, where he attended college. Upon graduation he moved to New York where a number of his plays received productions and staged readings, primarily at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he is a member.

For the past twenty-plus years, he has lived in Los Angeles, working as a television writer and producer on a total of twelve different prime time shows for ABC, NBC, FOX and UPN, including “Herman’s Head,” “Girlfriends” and two of television’s most respected comedies, “Roseanne,” and “Frasier.” For his work on the latter, he received an Emmy award, as a member of the producing staff, for Outstanding Comedy Series.

For the past seven years he has created shows and served as showrunner for the Disney Channel and Disney XD, starting with “I’m in the Band” on XD and followed by “Dog with a Blog” on Disney Channel. As Executive Producer of the latter, he has received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Children’s Program.

He is the author of five children’s books published by Dial Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Penguin) . They are: “Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake,” “Betty Bunny Wants Everything,” “Betty Bunny Didn’t Do it,” “Betty Bunny Wants a Goal,” and “Betty Bunny Loves Easter.”