About
Mary Shaw is a composer for film and TV, specializing in sports hip-hop and emotional underscore for reality television. Her production music credits include CBS Sports, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney+, Fox, The NFL Network, The Food Network, The NFL Today, and NCAA March Madness.
She has also written custom music and sound design for clients including the ASPCA, GLAD, and Fidelity Investments.
TL;DR
Mary started out as an independent singer-songwriter in the '80s. After hitting the road in 1987, she sold a few thousand copies of an independent album, performed solo shows at over 150 college campuses, and won a few songwriting contests, including The American Lung Association Clean Air Songwriting Competition judged by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. She was also a semi-finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk competition.
Mary retired from touring after seven years on the road to start a family. A 1996 score for a Fortune 500 corporate video led to a job coordinating corporate events for up to 5,000 attendees, where she also began building websites and email campaigns to promote them. That work grew into a 30-year career in web design and user experience, creating websites and online campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands, including a site featured during the Super Bowl. In 2020 she resumed writing and recording music from her home studio.
Mary lives in Connecticut, USA, with her husband, daughter, and a chocolate lab named Bosco.
