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Anna D. Shapiro

Biography

Anna D. Shapiro is a Tony Award–winning director and served as Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company from 2015 to 2021, where she remains an ensemble member. She joined the Steppenwolf ensemble in 2005 and was awarded the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf, Broadway, London). She was nominated in 2011 in the same category for The Motherf**ker with the Hat (The Public Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company). Other Steppenwolf directing credits include Noises Off (also Geffen Playhouse), the world premiere production of The Minutes (also on Broadway), The Unmentionables (also at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), Purple Heart (also in Galway, Ireland) and This Is Our Youth (which transferred to Broadway). Additional Broadway credits include Eureka DayOf Mice and Men and Fish in the Dark, and off-Broadway Domesticated (Lincoln Center Theater). She directed the premiere of the Broadway musical The Devil Wears Prada with music by Sir Elton John, lyrics by Shaina Taub and book by Kate Wetherhead. Shapiro is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Columbia. She is a professor in Northwestern University’s Department of Theatre.

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Credits & Awards

Theatre

Papermill Playhouse: The Drawer Boy Piven Theatre Workshop: The Guys Indiana Repertory Theatre: Agnes of God Manhattan Theatre Club: Iron Huntington Theatre Company: A Fair Country Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Infidel Atlantic Theatre Company: Trafficking in Broken Hearts

Awards

Princess Grace Award The 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction for August: Osage County.

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Anna D. Shapiro

Anna D. Shapiro

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