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Laura Shapiro Kramer is an American author, producer and film maker.
In 1975 Shapiro Kramer began working with Steve Leber and David Krebs. Working with Leber and Krebs, Shapiro Kramer helped them manage the first national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar from 1976 to 1980.[ citation needed ]
In 1991 after publishing an article about the Feldenkrais Method in Family Circle , Shapiro Kramer was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show . In 1995, Shapiro Kramer published the memoir Uncommon Voyage about her experiences parenting a child with special needs. [1] The book had a second edition in 2002. Shapiro Kramer reworked the story of raising her son into a guidebook for other parents and in 2017 it was published digitally. This new edition, titled Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children with Special Needs, A Guidebook, received praise from Publishers Weekly. [2]
Shapiro Kramer sold David Mamet's first tele-play Smashville to ABC in 1991 and developed Scramble with Richard Wesley for Universal Pictures.[ citation needed ] In 1983, Shapiro Kramer was a producer of John Byrne's Slab Boys on Broadway directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Val Kilmer and Jackie Earle Haley. [3] [4] Her production won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Ackerman.[ citation needed ] She was part of the producing team of Amerika starring Madeline Kahn at the Santa Fe Festival Theater and with other play productions at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.[ citation needed ]
In November 2005, Shapiro Kramer published "Laura and Myriam's Incredible Albanian Vacation" in Illyria, an Albanian/American newspaper from Bardha Publications. The article described her travels to Albania, Kosovo, and the Balkans and the documentary film Shqiperi she was producing through NYFA, the New York Foundation for the Arts where she was the Project Director for The Albyon Project.[ citation needed ]
In 2013 and 2014, Kramer's articles about her travels began appearing in newspapers like The Forward who published the articles with her photos about Tasmania (2013) and Iran (2014).[ citation needed ]
Kramer was an independent consultant for Friends of Bezalel, the National Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and The Sculptors Guild.[ citation needed ]
Shapiro Kramer is the daughter of Enid Shapiro (d. 2017), who had a career in social work and was described as the "grande dame" of the Jewish community in Boston in a Boston Globe obituary. [5]
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith is an English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage over seven decades, she has achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having received highest achievement for film, television and theatre, winning two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Hailed as one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the Arts, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to Drama.
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