Paul Shyre; Playwright, Director, Actor

Paul Shyre, 63, a playwright, director and actor who won a special Tony award in 1957. Shyre adapted for the stage, directed and co-produced the Sean O’Casey novels “Pictures in the Hallway,” “I Knock at the Door” and “Drums Under the Windows.” His other dramatizations included “A Whitman Portrait,” “An Unpleasant Evening With H.L. Mencken” and “Hizzoner!” about former New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. A native New Yorker, Shyre was a former professor of theater arts at Cornell University. His other awards included an Obie (off-Broadway) and a Drama Desk citation. In New York on Sunday of septicemia infections linked to AIDS.