Mac Quayle

Frederick MacDonald "Mac" Quayle, Jr. is an American composer for film, television, and video games. He has worked as the score composer for several TV series, including Sam Esmail productions Mr. Robot and Gaslit; numerous Ryan Murphy productions, such as American Horror Story and its spin-offs American Horror Stories and American Crime Story, 9-1-1 and its spin-offs 9-1-1: Lone Star and 9-1-1: Nashville, Scream Queens, Feud, Pose, The Politician, Ratched, Monster, and The Beauty; as well as the series The Pact and His & Hers. Quayle has also scored additional music for films and video games, and has mixed and produced scores led by other composers. He composed the music for the film Leave the World Behind directed by Esmail.

Quayle began his career in the late 1980s, working with producer Hex Hector as HQ2 and briefly performing in hip-hop band Rise Robots Rise. He worked with Cliff Martinez as an additional composer for several films, including Drive, Contagion (both 2011), and Spring Breakers (2013). He won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for Mr. Robot, and has also been nominated for three other Creative Arts Emmy Awards.