Laura Shapiro Kramer

Laura Shapiro Kramer (born July 27, 1948) is an American author, producer and film maker.

Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Shapiro Kramer left New England to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1960s. In 1969 she moved to Los Angeles where she attended UCLA studying Film and Art History. In 1979, she married Jay Kramer, an attorney whose clients include Stephen King, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Christopher Curtis, the estate of James Clavell.

In 1975 Shapiro Kramer began working with Steve Leber and David Krebs. Working with Leber and Krebs, Laura helped them manage the first national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar from 1976 to 1980.

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. The book had a second edition (2002) and in 2017 was published digitally. In the 2017 edition the title is Uncommon Voyage, Parenting Children with Special Needs, A Guidebook.

Shapiro Kramer sold David Mamet's first tele-play Smashville to ABC in 1991 and developed Scramble with Richard Wesley for Universal Pictures. In 1983 Shapiro Kramer produced John Byrne's Slab Boys on Broadway directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Val Kilmer and Madeline Potter. Her production won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Ackerman. 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, Mass.

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