Mary Lorson is an American writer, musician and composer. Perhaps best known for her time as the lead singer of Alternative Pop group Madder Rose, Lorson has gone on to release albums with Mary Lorson & Saint Low, The Piano Creeps, and Mary Lorson & the Soubrettes. Lorson's tenth full-length disc "BurnBabyBurn" was released in 2011. Lorson and Billy Coté created the original score for "What Remains: The Life and Art of Sally Mann" for Steven Cantor and HBO. She and Coté have a son, Roman. A breast cancer survivor and high school English teacher in Ithaca, New York, Lorson is the author of "Freak Baby and the Kill Thought," an original screenplay about the life of Eva Tanguay. She is currently developing a television project titled "Old School," and scoring the independent web-series "The Chanticleer."