Eric Shaw (screenwriter)

Eric Shaw
BornJericho, New York, U.S.
OccupationTelevision writer
Years active1996–present

Eric Shaw is an American television writer whose credits include Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants.[1] Originally from Jericho, NY, he attended Jericho High School[citation needed] and graduated from Columbia University.[2] He has been an animation writer since 2003 and has also written for Skunk Fu, Krypto the Superdog, Sid the Science Kid, My Friends Tigger & Pooh and other animated shows. He is known for writing on SpongeBob SquarePants seasons five and six. As a staff writer, Shaw had written 10 SpongeBob episodes.[3][4] In 2007, Shaw served as the President of the International Jury at the Cartoons on the Bay Animation Festival in Salerno, Italy.[5] Shaw was head writer on the PBS animated series WordGirl, starring Tom Kenny, Maria Bamford, Patton Oswalt, and Jeffrey Tambor, for the fifth season (26 episodes). He worked from Soup2Nuts's Watertown, Mass studio. On June 14, 2013, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 40th Annual Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards.[6]

SpongeBob episodes

References

  1. ^ "Festival on the Mississippi: The Shape and Color of Red Stick". Animation World Network.
  2. ^ "Notable Alumni". gs.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  3. ^ "News - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Celebrity". MTV News. Archived from the original on March 1, 2018.
  4. ^ "Animation Writing 101 with Eric Shaw". Archived from the original on 2010-05-17. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  5. ^ "Cartoons on the Bay – A Film Festival World profile". Film Festival World. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  6. ^ Tucker Shaw (17 June 2013). "Coloradan wins Emmy for writing work on PBS series "WordGirl"". The Denver Post.