Dana Adam Shapiro
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Dana Adam Shapiro was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for his
first film, Murderball, a documentary about the United States
Paralympic Quad Rugby Team. His latest film, Monogamy, starring Chris
Messina and Rashida Jones, is nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit
Award and will be released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
His 2007 animated short about unrequited love and recycling, My
Biodegradable Heart, was an official selection at Sundance and many
other festivals around the world. His debut novel, The Every Boy
(published by Houghton Mifflin), was a New York Times Editors' Choice
and a 2005 Book Sense Notable Book. Other projects include Holler, a
film about segregated proms in the South, which he wrote and will be
produced by Screen Gems in 2011, and American Family, a
documentary-in-progress about interracial couples. Shapiro is a former
senior editor at Spin, a founding editor and senior writer of ICON
magazine, and he is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and
other publications. He was the 2007 Artist-in-Residence at Bucknell
University and currently lives in Venice, California.
