Lisa Diana Shapiro is a playwright and actor living in New York City. She is a graduate of the Northwestern University theatre program.
Her most recent production, Samantha Spade, Ace Detective was produced by the TADA Youth Theatre Program in New York where she is currently writing a new full-length family musical.
By day, Lisa works as a teaching artist throughout the five boroughs, bringing theatre classes to some of the most under-served schools in the area. She is Lead Teaching Artist for LEAP On Stage, a playwriting and production program run by the arts organization LEAP.
In non-pandemic times, she works summers teaching theatre for Artists Striving to End Poverty in the Refugee Youth Summer Academy run by the International Rescue Committee, and in New York City’s summer school MLL program administered by Arts Connection.