| Eric Shaw | |
| Birth Place: | Jericho, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Television writer |
| Years Active: | 1996–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]