# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anna-d-shapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:11.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anna-d-shapiro"
name: "Anna D. Shapiro"
slug: "anna-d-shapiro"
description: "Anna Davida Shapiro is an American theater director, was the artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theater Company, and a professor at Northwestern University. Throughout her career, she has directed both the Steppenwolf Theater Company production of August: Osage County (2007) along with its Broadway debut (2008-2009), the Broadway debuts of The Motherfucker with the Hat (2011) and Fish in the Dark (2014), The Minutes (2022), Eureka Day (2024) and Broadway revivals of This Is Our Youth and Of Mice and Men, both in 2014. She won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for her direction of August: Osage County."
tagline: "American theatre director"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.921875
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4503922/"
    handle:    "nm4503922"
sources:
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    title: "Anna Shapiro"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_D._Shapiro"
    title: "Anna D. Shapiro"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Shapiro"
    title: "Anna Shapiro"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump