Yvette Kaplan
American animator and filmmaker (born 1955)
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Yvette Kaplan is an American animator, director, and producer of animated films.[1]
She was born Yvette Rosenberg in New York in 1955[citation needed] and grew up in Brooklyn.[2] After high school, she attended the School of Visual Arts,[3] studying under Howard Beckerman.[citation needed]
Kaplan began her career at a New York studio called Tele-tactics,[1] where she worked with animators Dan Haskett, Tom Sito, and John Canemaker. In the 1970s and 80s, she animated for commercial television at a variety of Manhattan studios, including Broadcast Arts.[citation needed]
In 1991, Kaplan was hired to direct episodes of Doug for Jumbo Pictures. She began at MTV Animation studios in 1994, directing episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head.[4] In 1996, she was the animation director for the feature film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.[5]
She is one of the creators of the children's animated TV series Zack & Quack from 2014.[1]
