Elizabeth Deane

Elizabeth Deane
Residence Boston
Occupation Producer, writer, and director
Employer WGBH-TV

Elizabeth Deane is a writer, producer and director of documentary films for PBS, specializing in American history. She is based primarily at WGBH-TV in Boston with work ranging from presidential politics to biographies and musical history.[1]

Career

Early in her career, Deane wrote and produced three episodes of the 13-part series Vietnam: A Television History with Stanley Karnow as chief correspondent.[2][3][4] The three episodes were titled "America's Mandarin," "Homefront USA," and "The End of the Tunnel."[5][6][7] Vietnam won a Peabody Award[8] and seven Emmy awards. Originally broadcast in 1983, the program was re-broadcast by the PBS history series American Experience in 1997.[2]

In 1985, Deane was senior producer for Frontline's four-part series Crisis in Central America,[9] which won a Peabody Award.[10] She was senior producer for the 13-part series War and Peace in the Nuclear Age for WGBH in 1989.[11][12][13]

In 1995, she was executive producer for the PBS series Rock & Roll, a co-production of WGBH and the BBC. The ten-part series, with former New York Times music critic Robert Palmer as chief consultant, traced the history of rock music from the 1950s through the early 1990s.[14][15][16] It won a Peabody Award and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Deems Taylor award for excellence in music programming.[17][18][19] The program was also nominated for an Emmy.[20] Under the BBC title of Dancing in the Street, the series was nominated for the BAFTA award.[21]

Deane has produced many documentaries for the American Experience series including programs for its collection, The Presidents. She was executive producer for "Nixon" in 1990, and wrote, directed and produced Part II of the three-part series.[22][23][24] "Nixon" was nominated for an Emmy that year[20] and won a Writers Guild Award for Deane in 1991.[25] She was executive producer for "The Kennedys" in 1992,[26][27] which won the Best Documentary award from the British Broadcasting Press Guild in 1993.[28] The Presidents series won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1997.[25][29]

As part of her work for American Experience, Deane was executive producer for "The Rockefellers" in 2000, and wrote, directed and produced Part 1.[30][31][32] She was executive producer of "Ulysses S. Grant," which aired in 2002. She also wrote, produced, and directed part two of "Ulysses S. Grant."[33][34][35] Reconstruction: The Second Civil War followed in 2004. Deane was series producer for Reconstruction, and she wrote and produced part two of the series.[35][36][37] Reconstruction gained a Writers Guild Award nomination for Deane.[38] She was series producer and wrote "John & Abigail Adams" for The Presidents in 2006.[39][40][41] "John & Abigail Adams" was also nominated for a Writers Guild Award.[42]

In 2009, she was co-creator and executive producer of a second musical history for WGBH and the BBC, Latin Music USA. The four-part series documented music created by Latinos in the U.S.[43][44][45][46] and was featured at the Aspen Ideas Festival.[47]

Deane has also worked with WGBH's Media Library and Archives writing short essays featuring programming from the archives for the WGBH digital program guide. The essays are posted on Open Vault, the website of the WGBH archives.[48]

Personal life

Raised in Coconut Grove and Coral Gables, Florida, Deane is an art history graduate of Wellesley College. She is married with two children and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.[49]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Biographies". WGBH Arts. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Vietnam Online Transcripts and Credits". PBS. March 29, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ William A. Henry III (October 3, 1983). "A TV Monument to the 'TV War'". Time Magazine.
  4. ↑ William Broyles Jr (October 10, 1983). "America’s First Television War". Newsweek.
  5. ↑ "America's Mandarin". PBS. March 29, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Homefront USA". PBS. March 29, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ "The End of the Tunnel". PBS. March 29, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Vietnam: A Television History". Peabody Awards. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  9. ↑ John Corry (April 9, 1985). "Crisis in Central America, on PBS". New York Times.
  10. ↑ "Frontline: Crisis in Central America (PBS)". Peabody Awards. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  11. ↑ Zvi Dor-Ner, Elizabeth Deane, David Alan Rosenberg (December 1989). "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age" 73 (3). The Journal of American History.
  12. ↑ Marc Gunther (January 23, 1989). "War, Peace and nukes: How the world changed". Detroit Free Press.
  13. ↑ Mike Boone (January 22, 1989). "Prepare to be hooked on War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". The Gazette.
  14. ↑ John J. O'Connor (September 25, 1995). "TELEVISION REVIEW; Once More, Remembering When Rock Was Young". The New York Times. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  15. ↑ Tina Maples (September 21, 1995). "Hail, Hail rock 'n' roll". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
  16. ↑ Tom Dorsey (September 24, 1995). "PBS Launches Season with 'Rock & Roll,' a stellar documentary". Louisville Courier-Journal.
  17. ↑ "Rock & Roll". Peabody Awards. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Elizabeth Deane". OpenVault. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  19. ↑ "28th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Recipients". ASCAP. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Report by Nominee All Positions Elizabeth Deane". The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
  21. ↑ "Television Huw Wheldon Award For The Best Arts Programme or Series in 1997". BAFTA Awards. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Cast & Crew: Film Credits for Nixon". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  23. ↑ Rick Kogan (October 15, 1990). "Recurring Patterns". Chicago Tribune.
  24. ↑ Mark Feeney (October 15, 1990). "The Countless Sides of Richard Nixon". Boston Globe.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Broadcast awards". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  26. ↑ "Cast and Crew". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  27. ↑ Phillip Whitehead (October 11, 1992). "The Bootleg Politician". The Independent on Sunday.
  28. ↑ "BPG Awards 1993". Broadcasting Press Guild. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  29. ↑ "The American Experience: The Presidents". Peabody Awards. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  30. ↑ "Cast & Crew: The Rockefellers". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  31. ↑ Hal Boedeker (October 15, 2000). "In the Footsteps of Giants of Power". Orlando Sentinel.
  32. ↑ Walter H. Combs (October 15, 2000). "Tycoon’s Tale – The Rockefellers". Buffalo News.
  33. ↑ "Cast & Crew: Film Credits". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  34. ↑ "American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant". People Magazine. May 3, 2002.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Ron Wertheimer (May 3, 2002). "That Man in Grant’s Tomb is More Than He Seemed". New York Times.
  36. ↑ "The Film and More". PBS. December 19, 2003. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  37. ↑ Dorothy Rabinowitz (January 16, 2004). "Citizen King". Wall Street Journal.
  38. ↑ "Llew Smith films and links". BlueSpark Collaborative. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  39. ↑ "Film Description". PBS. August 26, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  40. ↑ Ted Mahar (January 22, 2006). "Prolific Letters Give us a Terrific Twosome for the Ages". The Oregonian.
  41. ↑ Irv Letofsky (January 23, 2006). "American Experience: John & Abigail Adams". Hollywood Reporter.
  42. ↑ Andrew Gans (December 14, 2006). "Tony Awards Broadcast Receives Writers Guild Nomination". Playbill. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  43. ↑ "Producers". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  44. ↑ "Latin Music USA". PBS. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  45. ↑ Jordan Levin (October 11, 2009). "Evolution of Latin Music". Miami Herald.
  46. ↑ David Hinckley (October 12, 2009). "Why US Moves to a Latino Beat". New York Daily News.
  47. ↑ "Aspen Ideas Festival 2009". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  48. ↑ "Elizabeth Deane". WGBH. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  49. ↑ Hal Boedekeer (September 20, 1992). "Executive Producer Got Her Start in Coconut Grove". Miami Herald.