Eric Shaw (screenwriter)

{{short description|American television writer}}

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|birth_place = Jericho, New York, U.S.

|occupation = Television writer

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|years_active = 1996–present}}

Eric Shaw is an American television writer whose credits include Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants.{{cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/festival-mississippi-shape-and-color-red-stick|title=Festival on the Mississippi: The Shape and Color of Red Stick|website=Animation World Network}} Originally from Jericho, NY, he attended Jericho High School{{cn|date=December 2024}} and graduated from Columbia University.{{cite web|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/notable-alumni|title=Notable Alumni|website=gs.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715014713/https://gs.columbia.edu/notable-alumni|archive-date=2014-07-15|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/movies/celebrities/eric-shaw/19803467/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301164318/http://www.mtv.com/news/movies/celebrities/eric-shaw/19803467/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 1, 2018|title=News - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Celebrity|website=MTV News}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/387 |title=Animation Writing 101 with Eric Shaw |access-date=2009-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100517093111/http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/387 |archive-date=2010-05-17 |url-status=dead }} In 2007, Shaw served as the President of the International Jury at the Cartoons on the Bay Animation Festival in Salerno, Italy.{{cite web |title=Cartoons on the Bay – A Film Festival World profile |url=http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Cartoons_on_the_Bay/ |work=Film Festival World |accessdate=December 5, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224192048/http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Cartoons_on_the_Bay/ |archivedate=December 24, 2011 }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2013/06/17/coloradan-wins-emmy-for-writing-work-on-pbs-series-wordgirl/|title=Coloradan wins Emmy for writing work on PBS series "WordGirl" |author1=Tucker Shaw |date=17 June 2013|publisher=The Denver Post}}