Adolf Yakovlevich Shapiro (Russian: Адольф Яковлевич Шапиро, Latvian: Ādolfs Šapiro, born July 4, 1939, Kharkov, USSR (now Kharkiv, Ukraine)) is a Soviet, Latvian and Russian theater director, acting teacher, playwright and author.
From 1962 to 1992 he worked in Latvia as the Artistic Director of the Latvian State Theater of Young Spectators (TYuZ), renamed the Youth Theatre in 1989.
[3] His most notable works at that time include Ivanov and Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov, City at Dawn by Alexei Arbuzov, The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky, Golden Horse by Jānis Rainis, Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich Kleist, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht, Tomorrow There Came War by Boris Vasilyev, Democracy!
Shapiro has written plays staged in Russia and abroad and is the author of the books Inter-Mission and The Curtain Dropped (Druzhba Narodov magazine award for the best publication of the year).
The Evening of Bertolt Brecht, 2017 A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2005 Right You Are (if you think so) by Luigi Pirandello, 2005 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 2012 Old Times by Harold Pinter, 2014 (Zoe Laskari, Greek theater and cinema celebrity, starring in both productions)