Michael Gordon Shapiro

His feature film credits include Home Room (starring Erika Christensen, Victor Garber, and Busy Phillips), Against Time (starring Robert Loggia and with Craig T. Nelson), and a catalog of projects ranging from intimate documentary to over-the-top thriller. He contributes to top-tier production libraries such as APM and Extreme Music. His music has been used on such television shows as Nip/Tuck, Spongebob Squarepants, The Joe Schmo Show, Undercover Boss, and many others.

He devotes as much attention and creativity to his interactive media scores as he does to traditional media. Some credits include Star Trek Conquest (Bethesda), Day of Defeat (Valve), Jane’s Attack Squadron (XiCat), Empire Earth 2 (Activison) and Empire Earth 3 (Vivendi), the Wizard Ops series of iOS games (Phyken Media), the retro-RTS Empires Apart (DESTINYbit/Slitherine) and the award-winning children’s title The Living Letters (Zoesis Studios). He’s also worked with composer Inon Zur as orchestrator and score supervisor on the groundbreaking Fantasia: Music Evolved (Disney Interactive). Michael’s music has been recorded by Los Angeles ensembles at studios such as Warner Brothers, O Henry, and Martinsound, as well as by orchestras in Budapest, Beijing, Toronto, and Prague.

Michael is also an active composer for musical theatre; his children’s show Super Sidekick: The Musical is published by Samuel French / Concord Theatricals and has been performed in front of young audiences throughout the United States, including Off-Broadway in 2012. His family musical The Bully Problem was nominated for numerous awards at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival, including Best Musical and Top of the Fringe.

Michael is a graduate of the acclaimed film scoring program at the University of Southern California. He also studied at the ASCAP Film Scoring Seminar, and with Hollywood veteran Jack Smalley and Larry Bell of the Boston Conservatory. He is a four-time ASCAP Plus award winner.