Award-winning playwright,
Ellen W. Kaplan,
adapts book to stage 

      Award-Winning Author Yvonne David is now planning to bring the play, Out of the Apple Orchard by Ellen W. Kaplan, based on her book of the same name, Book 1 in the Apple Tree Series, back to New York City, following the Orlando Premiere at the Orlando Repertory Theatre in December 2016. Book 2, The Night Sky Lined with Silver by Yvonne David and illustrated by Robert Sauber will be released in 2022 and the play by Ellen W. Kaplan, again based on the book of the same name by Yvonne David, will also be mounted in 2023. Despite several life detours, her journey through the Apple Tree Series continues.

Language and literature have always filled her life’s experiences. Her diploma qualifications from the Language Tuition Centre, London, included Interpreter/Translator in French and English. After moving to Florida with her American husband, she earned a degree in English and Organizational Communication from Rollins College, Winter Park, and graduated summa cum laude. Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, Yvonne continues to be involved in literary endeavors.

Yvonne has attended many writing conferences and workshops, including the Writers’ Workshop Program at The Key West Literary Seminar with Susan Shreve and Master Classes at Rollins College with Ann Beattie and Paula McLain. Her publishing career began with writing newspaper and magazine articles and continued with the first of four historical fiction books in the Apple Tree Series, set in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York; a series inspired by her son. Joseph Stein’s Fiddler on the Roof, based on Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman, and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol provided the literary influences and explores similar themes of hunger, forgiveness and new beginnings. Out of the Apple Orchard won an Independent Publisher Book Award and was adapted to the stage by Ellen W. Kaplan.

Several staged readings, with a number of Broadway actors, were performed under the direction of Nicole H. Raphael of The Mesaper Theatre in New York City, a concert reading with Director Kerry Giese and Assistant Director Amanda Hudson was held at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, and Tony Award-Winning Producer Kenny Howard directed the play, produced by Yvonne David. By partnering with Jewish Family Services Orlando and St. Vincent de Paul Society, Yvonne David hoped to make the public aware of the severity of food insecurity, just as Dickens wanted to address the plight of the poor in his day. Yvonne has recently completed both manuscripts of Book 2 of 4 in the Apple Tree Series for children and of her first women’s fiction work for adults.