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Stuart S. Shapiro is a producer, director, writer, and Internet entrepreneur. Shapiro began his career as a concert promoter, re launching the Berkshire Music Barn in 1970 with Arlo Guthrie, James Taylor, Ike and Tina Turner and BB King. As an independent film distributor in 1974, he founded International Harmony which distributed the cult classics TunnelVision, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, Bob Marley's Reggae Sunsplash, The Sex Pistols' DOA, and Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle.

As a film producer, Shapiro's credits include Mondo New York, featuring New York¿s performance artists, Joey Arias, Karen Finely and Ann Magnuson, and Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen, which helped launch the careers of Tim Allen, Chris Rock, and Otto & George. The New Yorker noted the importance of Chris Rock's appearance in Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen, saying it "helped earn him a place in the cast of 'Saturday Night Live', two years later. Other credits include Only The Strong, from which he produced the famous Mazda song "Zoom Zoom Zoom". Shapiro also produced the 72-hour live webcast of Woodstock '99, notable for being the largest of its kind at the time.

As an author, Shapiro edited Flash Frames, a book highlighting Flash art from the Internet. He also produced the CD accompaniment to the book This is Today, a history of NBC's Today Show.

Shapiro created Night Flight, a music pop culture series which ran on USA Network from 1981 to 1986. VH1 named Night Flight one of the 10 greatest Hard Rock and Heavy Metal TV shows of all time, saying it was "the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired.¿ In 2016, Shapiro re launched Night Flight as Video Streaming Channel at nightflight.com and nightflightplus.com with a late-night TV series on IFC.

Shapiro is the President and Co Founder of iConstituent, a leading software and service provider, innovating constituent communications in US Congress.