Eric Shaw (screenwriter)

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Eric Shaw
Born1973 (age 4849)
Jericho, New York, U.S.
OccupationTelevision writer
Years active1996–present

Eric Shaw (born 1973) is an American television writer whose credits include Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants . [1] Originally from Jericho, NY, he attended Jericho High School 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 many other animated hit 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, Jeffrey Tambor, and others. Shaw ran the writing on Season 5 (26 episodes), 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]

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