NOAM SHAPIRO
www.noamshapiro.com Associate Member of SDC
ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
Three Hares | Founder, Producing Artistic Director - Direct and produce new socially conscious and politically engaged plays that bring together diverse, multidisciplinary artists in New York
Lyra Theater | Founding Artistic Director (2016-2018) - Directed and developed plays featuring emerging artists; production of Brecht’s Arturo Ui profiled in The New York Times
DIRECTING
On This Side of the World * Paulo K Tiról Prospect Theater Company Sweeney Todd Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler Yale Dramatic Association On This Side of the World * Paulo K Tiról Three Hares/Access Theater The Laramie Project Moisés Kaufman/Tectonic Theater Project Johns Hopkins University Barnstormers Gonzo * Laura Winters LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Speaking as Then * Ruoxin Xu Columbia University, MFA Playwriting It Takes a Village * Matthew Van Gessel & Noam Shapiro The Tank/The Brick Emerson Loses Her “Miand” * Laura Winters New York Theater Festival Little League * Jack Spagnola FRIGID New York The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui † Bertolt Brecht, trans. Jennifer Wise Lyra Theater Women Scouts* Ryann Weir Ensemble Studio Theatre What It’s Like to Be a Bat * Helen Laser The Gallery Players The Sycophants * Ryann Weir #Serials at the Flea Theater Peabrain * Jacob Marx Rice Communal Spaces Festival Happily Maybe Sometime * Juli Del Prete The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Ermeni * Eric Sirakian Yale Dramatic Association Cabaret Joe Masteroff/John Kander/Fred Ebb Yale Theater Studies Program The Crucible Arthur Miller Yale College The Trojan Women † Caroline Bird Yale College Circle Mirror Transformation Annie Baker Yale College
* World Premiere | † U.S. Premiere
SELECT WORKSHOPS & READINGS
Quick, Change Ali Viterbi The Drama League/First Stage Residency Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Three Hares/League of Independent Theater Deadheads Ali Viterbi The Barrow Group Gonzo Laura Winters Corkscrew Theater Festival Terra Firma Barbara Hammond New Dramatists Emerson Loses Her “Miand” Laura Winters Dixon Place
SELECT ASSISTANT DIRECTING
Love Life (by Kurt Weill & Alan Jay Lerner) Victoria Clark Encores! New York City Center The Flood (by Korine Fujiwara & Stephen Wadsworth) Stephen Wadsworth Opera Columbus Downtown Race Riot (by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld) Scott Elliott The New Group When It’s You (by Courtney Baron) Jonathan Silverstein Keen Company The Dingdong (by Mark Shanahan) Hal Brooks The Pearl Theatre Company Three Days to See (by Jack Cummings III) Jack Cummings III Transport Group Theatre Company Falling Away (by Christopher Shinn) Mark Armstrong Ensemble Studio Theatre Wake Up (by Bess Wohl) Lee Sunday Evans The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway
OBSERVERSHIPS
Happy Days (by Samuel Beckett) James Bundy Theatre for a New Audience (Tech & Previews) Futurity (by César Alvarez with The Lisps) Sarah Benson SoHo Rep & Ars Nova (Rehearsal, Tech, Previews) The Select (The Sun Also Rises) (by ERS) John Collins Elevator Repair Service/FITAM (Rehearsal)
ARTISTIC AFFILIATIONS & RECOGNITIONS
Harold Prince/Kurt Weill Directing Fellow Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation 2020 Finalist, Director-Designer Showcase for The Little Prince Opera America 2019 MTC Directing Fellow Manhattan Theatre Club 2016-2018 Drama League First Stage Resident Artist The Drama League 2018 Access Theater Resident Artist Access Theater 2018-2019 Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Resident Artist Fresh Ground Pepper 2018 Lincoln Center Directors Lab Lincoln Center Theater 2017 “Top 5 Innovative College Productions, 2015” Playbill.com 2015
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Guest Director Yale Dramatic Association 2019 Guest Director Johns Hopkins University Barnstormers 2018 Script Reader for National Playwrights Conference The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center 2018 Directing Intern The New Group 2017 Resident Assistant Director Cape Cod Theatre Project 2016 Directing Assistant & Artistic Intern Transport Group Theatre Company 2015 Script Reader for Princess Grace Playwriting Award Princess Grace/New Dramatists 2015-2018
EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, CT | Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude with Distinction in Theater Studies and History The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY | Salutatorian