Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro is the name of:

Paul Shapiro (director)

Paul Shapiro (born 1955) is a Canadian television director, producer and writer, who has worked in both Canada and the United States.

Life and career

He began his career in 1973 on the film Life Times Nine, an anthology of short films by high school students in Toronto which garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1974. While a student at Ryerson University, he made the film The Understudy, which aired as a television film in 1976. His early credits included the television series Street Legal, Adderly, Road to Avonlea, Mom P.I. and The Campbells, and the television films Clown White (1981), Hockey Night (1984), Miracle at Moreaux (1986) and The Truth About Alex (1988).

He went on to amass number of notable television credits, including The X-Files, Millennium Dark Angel, Roswell, Smallville, Fastlane, Tru Calling, Heroes, Supernatural, Las Vegas, 24, Criminal Minds, Continuum and Rookie Blue.

He has also directed one theatrical feature film, The Lotus Eaters (1993).

Paul Shapiro (activist)

Paul Shapiro (born 1979) is the vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Prior to working with HSUS, he was known for being the founder of Compassion Over Killing (COK).

Work with Compassion Over Killing

When he was thirteen years old, Shapiro stopped eating meat as a result of learning about the cruelties of meat production. About one month later, he stopped eating eggs and dairy.

While a high school student at Georgetown Day School in 1995, Shapiro founded the animal advocacy organization Compassion Over Killing, and served as its campaigns director until 2005. Compassion Over Killing became well known for its investigative work exposing conditions for farm animals on factory farms, at livestock auctions, and at slaughter plants. Shapiro received a B.A. from George Washington University in 2001, where he majored in peace studies and minored in religion. He taught peace studies at a public high school in Washington, D.C. He was profiled in a 2003 Washington Post Style section article entitled "Animal Pragmatism: Compassion Over Killing Wants to Make the Anti-Meat Message a Little More Palatable".