Mary Lauren Teague

Biography

Mary Lauren Teague is Assistant Professor of Music Business at the Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University.  She is also the Owner of Dotted i Entertainment, LLC, where she advises and counsels Nashville creatives, and a contract attorney for Loeb & Loeb LLP.  As a music lawyer and advisor, she brings her experiences of representing recording artists, legacy artists, songwriters, publishing companies, producers, and other entertainment and media companies to the classroom to provide a unique, immersive learning experience for her students.

She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration (majoring in Music Business) from Belmont University and received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law.  Actively involved in the Nashville music community, Mary Lauren serves on the Board and as Membership Co-Chair of SOURCE, Nashville's largest and longest running women's music business organization. 

Mary Lauren has been honored by the Nashville Business Journal as one of Nashville’s “Top 40 Under 40” and a recipient of the “Women in Music City” award.  She was named to the “Up Next” list of emerging leaders in entertainment law in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report” and as a “Rising Star in Entertainment & Sports” by Mid-South Super Lawyers.  Additionally, she was a Nashville Emerging Leader Award finalist, selected for the GRAMMY Next Class by the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy, and selected for MusicRow’s “Next Big Thing” music industry directory.  In her free time, Mary Lauren loves to travel and spend time outdoors with her husband, Daniel, daughters, Mary Fran and Birdie, and their rescued labradoodle, Ellie.