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Paul Shapera is an American author, composer, audio producer and songwriter. He is most well known for being the composer and lyricist of The Dolls of New Albion, which has been staged numerous times.

Career
In 2012, Paul Shapera released The Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera, which is considered by some as the first ever opera of the steampunk genre. The music has gained favorable reviews on its own, both within the English-speaking world and beyond. The opera was produced multiple times, the productions receiving acclaim too.

Shapera later published sequels to The Dolls od New Albion, namely The New Albion Radio Hour and The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness, respectively a dieselpunk and an atompunk opera, the later having been cited among the references of the genre. The Room Beneath New Albion completes the tetralogy.

In 2014,

Selected discography as composer and songwriter

 * 2012 : The Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera
 * 2013 : The New Albion Radio Hour, A Dieselpunk Opera
 * 2014 : An Atompunk Opera, The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness
 * 2014 : The Room Beneath New Albion
 * 2014 : A Pirate's Tale
 * 2015 : A Slenderman Musical
 * 2016 : Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret
 * 2017 : Uncle Raven's Super Happy Funtime Carnival
 * 2018 : The Grand Cyberpunk Gala of Gabriella Gadfly
 * 2018 : The Forgotten Meme, A Cyberpunk Fairytale
 * 2018 : Janissary, A Balkan Rock Opera
 * 2019 : The Broken Cyborg, A Biopunk Fairytale
 * 2019 : The Lost Fairy, A Fairypunktale
 * 2020 : Katy Shaw & The Search For The Stolen Secret
 * 2020 : Nash Harding & The Secret Of The Twisted Tower
 * 2021 : Kevin & Abi And The Secret Of The Golden Pendant

Soundtracks

 * 2014 : Perils of Man, Composer and Sound Designer
 * 2014 : Ad campaign for MINOR
 * 2015 : The Test - Promotional video for Zweifel potato chips

Publications

 * 2009 : Iran's Religious Leaders - credited as Paul M. Shapera
 * 2017 : Lost Fables of New Albion
 * 2021 : The Posthuman Playhouse

Other Works
2017: The Bifrost Incident, The Mechanisms - credited for additional voices

2018-2021: Astonishing Tales of The Highly Improbable, Podcast