Celebrating the Music of Severance

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to celebrate the music of Severance and welcome Emmy® Award-winning composer Theodore Shapiro to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an afternoon discussing his creative process with special guest appearances from Director/Executive Producer Ben Stiller and Executive Producer/Actor Adam Scott.

ABOUT SEVERANCE

In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.

ABOUT THEODORE SHAPIRO

Theodore Shapiro is an Emmy® Award-winning composer with a prolific filmography spanning many of the most culturally defining films of the past 25 years.Most recently, Shapiro returned to score the second season of Apple TV+’s critically-acclaimed Severance, which premiered on January 17, following his award-winning work on the first. His haunting, atmospheric score has garnered wide praise for elevating the show’s unsettling tone, with critics dubbing it “iconic” (VULTURE), “perfect” (DECIDER) and “eerily catchy” (LOS ANGELES TIMES).Outside of Severance, Shapiro’s career has been defined chiefly by his versatility. He has built a reputation as a master of comedy scores, notably scoring iconic comedies like The Devil Wears Prada, 13 Going on 30, and Dodgeball. Beyond that, however, his extensive body of work – contributing to over a billion dollars in cumulative box office revenue – spans a wide variety of films, with turns scoring the likes of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Bombshell and Severance helmer Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.Following a deep passion for film music since childhood and stints at Brown University and Juilliard, Shapiro is now based in Los Angeles with his family.

ABOUT BEN STILLER 

Ben Stiller is an Emmy® – and DGA® -winning director, writer, producer and actor, and principal of his production company, Red Hour Films. He is the director and executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning Apple TV+ workplace thriller, Severance, which for its second season has recently earned 27 Emmy ® Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, making it the most nominated series of 2025. Stiller is also individually nominated in the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series category for his direction of the riveting second season finale episode, “Cold Harbor.” For the breakout first season of Severance, he received Emmy, DGA and PGA nominations, among countless honors. His recent directing and producing credits also include the multi award-winning limited series, Escape at Dannemora, nominated for 12 Emmy® Awards, and for which Stiller won the DGA® Award; and the upcoming documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, a passion project which explores family legacy through the lens of his parents, iconic comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, which Apple TV+ will release in theaters on October 17 and streaming starting October 24. He won an Emmy® Award for writing his breakthrough television sketch series, The Ben Stiller Show, and his directorial work also includes Reality Bites, The Cable Guy, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. His prolific onscreen work includes films and franchises like Meet the Parents, Night at the Museum, Madagascar, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Meyerowitz Stories, There’s Something About Mary, Brad’s Status, Greenberg, and Flirting with Disaster. He will next reprise the role of Greg Focker in Focker In-Law, the latest in the Meet the Parents franchise, which will also star Robert DeNiro, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner and Ariana Grande. In addition to his work in front of and behind the camera, he currently serves as Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, the UN refugee organization. 

ABOUT ADAM SCOTT

Adam Scott stars in the critically acclaimed second season of Apple TV+’s Emmy winning series “Severance,” which he serves as executive producer. The show has broken Apple TV+ records and is the platform’s #1 series in its history. For Scott’s performance in season one, he was nominated for an Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Film Independent Spirit Award, Critics Choice Award and has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role in season 2 . As a companion to the series, Scott co-hosts and produces “The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott,” through his Great Scott Productions. Additionally, he recently wrapped production on the thriller “The Saviors,” opposite Danielle Deadwyler, which is produced through Great Scott Productions, as well as the supernatural horror film “Hokum.”

Scott is repped by UTA, Rise Management and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, LLP.

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