Rich Shapero

Rich Shapero, creator of the Wild Animus storytelling experience, was born in 1948 in Los Angeles. In 1965, Rich started college at Berkeley. He majored in English lit, finding heroes both within his coursework and outside—William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Arthur Machen, Walter Pater and Henri Bergson. “All of those writers were important to me because they saw our everyday world as a veil, behind which a world more profound, more alive, and more real, was waiting to be discovered.” And music played a role. For all of these writers, the rhythm and melody of language gave it “the power to transport us into the emotional domain of an unseen world.”

Rich Shapero