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whose director had had to leave the production after only one week. Shapiro remained in New York to carry out that task, after which the school asked her to stay longer. Shapiro consulted with John
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Wallace Bell which has a cast of 7 female players. In 1949 the play was entered in the annual competition organised by the Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA) and won the award for the best amateur theatrical production of the year. As a consequence, Shapiro
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Annenberg who was making a documentary about three women friends of much the same age, Elizabeth Smith, Margot Harley and Shapiro, all of whom had worked
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Associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and in 2017 she was presented with the Juilliard President's Medal. The medal honours
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together at Juilliard. Shapiro's health was failing. "The moment I had cameras in place, it seemed, Eve became aphasic," wrote Annenberg in 2023. "Which was especially tragic as she had wanted so much to go on record about her beloved, late partner, Lois."
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at the academy, Dorothy Tenham. It was there that Shapiro first began her lifelong habit of inviting students to her home for coaching, to read and discuss passages from drama, particularly
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and Administrator Margot Harley and still casts broadly from young Juilliard drama graduates. Shapiro directed three major Shakespeare plays for the company:
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