Shira Piven is a multi-talented artist who has established herself as an actress, director, and producer. She has directed over 20 stage productions, many of them original adaptations, in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her first feature film, Fully Loaded, won the audience Favorite Feature award at Palm Beach International Film Festival as well as best Feature at both The River's Edge International and Carmel Art and Film Festivals. She has also written and directed several programs of original short plays, directed Ed Asner in the new play Number of People, and directed a short documentary on the life of guitar legend Wayne Kramer. In addition to her film and stage work, Piven has taught acting for stage and film, coaching the sons in Talladega Nights and teaching commedia dell'Arte to inmates at the CRC prison and former LA Gang members.
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Piven grew up in a Jewish family in Evanston, Illinois. Her brother is actor Jeremy Piven, and she is the daughter of actors Joyce Piven and Byrne Piven (1929-2002).