Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman is an accomplished American composer and lyricist. A Tony-winning composer for the Broadway production of Hairspray in 2003, Shaiman also won Drama Desk Awards in 2003 for Hairspray as composer and co-lyricist with writing partner Scott Wittman and was nominated for a Tony in 2011 as composer and co-lyricist of Catch Me If You Can. His most recent Broadway show was the 2017 production of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Shaiman was born in Newark, New Jersey, where he attended school before moving to New York working as a Musical Director in the cabaret scene, and eventually ending up working on Saturday Night Live as a writer and arranger, where he earned an Emmy nomination for his role as Skip St Thomas, the pianist for the characters The Sweeney Sisters among other musical contributions during the show's run in the 1980s. His television career spans decades of work from SNL to multiple years of Academy Awards broadcasts to late night talk shows and primetime TV specials, and the musical TV show Smash in 2012-2013 and beyond. And he has worked extensively with Bette Midler and Billy Crystal on many of his Oscar broadcast numbers, as well as Neil Patrick Harris and his Tony Awards show specialty numbers.

Shaiman also has a long career in film scoring, songwriting, and music supervision from Beaches in 1988 to the recent Mary Poppins Returns in 2018. He has been nominated for multiple Academy Awards for scores for Sleepless in Seattle, The American President, The First Wives Club, Mary Poppins Returns, and more.