Gail Shapiro has lived and worked in LA, NY and finally back home in Chicago. She is as an actor, teacher, and consultant/coach. In addition to developing actors at various career stages, Gail has translated her skills for both storytelling and commanding an audience to the business world in numerous fields including wealth management, journalism, and law.

Gail is a Senior Lecturer in Acting at Northwestern University. She earned her B.F.A. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.

Executive Learning and Organizational Change Coaching Certificate, Northwestern University

“Studying under Gail Shapiro, you take everything you know about acting, all of your impulses and thoughts, and it gets synthesized into a technique.  I am most grateful to Gail for teaching me how to take what I discover in rehearsal and in my own prep, and through that technique, make it repeatable, work that I can do eight times a week on stage or fifty takes for one scene on camera.” – Alex Weisman, actor