Credits
2002
Producer, Writer—Making Parents Your Partners, a training video produced for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to acqauint Emergency Department staff with the special concerns of children with special healthcare needs.
Writer—MedQuist marketing video (MedQuist Corporation, Marlton, NJ)
Writer—Valley Advanced MRI brochure (VAMRI, Easton PA.)
Writer—Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Foundation VNR (PR Newswire, Boston, MA)
Writer, drafted major article for the Radiology Department at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston that appeared in a national radiology magazine.
Writer, Interviewer—Linens-n-Things back-to-school video 2002 (Linens n’ Things, Clifton, NJ). Marketing video designed for use in stores during the back to school shopping season.
Writer,
Interviewer — Linens-n-Things back-to-school VNR 2002 (Linens n’ things,
Clifton, NJ). This video news release was distributed free to all national and
local television news organizations to promote Linens n’ things during the
back-to-school shopping season.
2001
Writer
— Annual Report: Massachusetts General Hospital Radiology Department.
Writer
— After-school series (Jason Foundation, Needham, Massachusetts). Realized
three video scripts from outlines and video provided by client. The videos were
for an after school program about the oceans.
Writer,
Interview — ASC marketing video (ASC Corporation, Hoesbach, Germany).
Writer,
Interviewer — Heartlab marketing video, Heartlab, Connecticut.
Writer,
Interviewer — Dennis Haley profile (10 minutes, Ernst & Young, Boston,
Massachusetts). Retirement video for E&Y partner Denis Haley.
Writer
— Talk Technology marketing video (12 minutes, Talk Technology, Bensalem,
Pennsylvania).
Writer, Interviewer — Linens-n-Things back-to-school video 2001 (Linens n’ Things, Clifton, NJ). Marketing video designed for use in stores during the back to school shopping season.
Writer,
Interviewer — Linens-n-Things back-to-school VNR 2001 (Linens n’ things,
Clifton, NJ). This video news release was distributed free to all national and
local television news organizations to promote Linens n’ things during the
back-to-school shopping season.
Writer,
Interviewer — Waters Corporation meeting video (Waters Corporation, Milford,
Massachusetts). Short-video designed to motivate service managers at their
annual meeting.
Writer,
Interviewer — Diane Miller profile (Diane Miller, Belmont, Massachusetts).
Campaign video to promote the candidacy of Reverend Diane Miller for president
of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Editor
— Humankind, Mike Hughs interview (Human Media, Belmont, Massachusetts).
Prepared initial edit and script for this episode of Humankind, a radio
interview series heard nationally on public radio.
Editor
— Humankind, Neale Donald Walsch interview (Human Media, Belmont,
Massachusetts). Prepared initial edit and script for this episode of Humankind,
a radio interview series heard nationally on public radio.
Writer — Know Your Customer (12 minutes, March, 2000, Fleet Bank, Boston). This training video was designed to teach bank workers in South America to correctly research and fill out the “know your customer form,” used by the bank to detect money laundering. The video used dramatic elements in combination with a narrator.
Writer, Interviewer ¾ Linens-n-hings back-to-school video 2000 (Linens n’ Things, Clifton, NJ). Marketing video designed for use in stores during the back to school shopping season.
Writer, Interviewer ¾ Linens-n-Things back-to-school VNR 2000 (Linen’s n’ things, Clifton, NJ). This video news release was distributed free to all national and local television news organizations to promote Linens n’ things during the back-to-school shopping season.
Writer, Interviewer ¾ Internet shopping VNR (SmarterKids.Com, Needham, MA). This video news release was distributed free to all national and local television news organizations to promote SmarterKids.Com during the Christmas buying season.
Writer ¾ Welcome to PG&E video (PG&E National Energy Group, Bethesda, MD). This video is used to welcome visitors to the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, and the Salem Harbor power plant in Salem, Massachusetts. It explains how the plant works, and discusses some of the plant’s environmental features.
Producer, Writer ¾ Chronicle: Healthbeat Project #13 (14:30 minutes, September, 1999, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). This program focused on longevity research, impotence, and doctor patient relationships.
Producer, Writer ¾ Scene/Backstage (28:00 minutes, June, 1999, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, and The Boston Neighborhood Network, Boston, Massachusetts). Thirty-minute pilot for a television magazine series about Boston’s cultural life. The pilot was eventually broadcast by WCVB-TV, but the series was never made.
Producer, Writer ¾ Chronicle: Healthbeat Project #12 (14:30 minutes, June, 1999, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). This program reported on the City of Boston’s effort to reduce cancer deaths among minority populations.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #11 (14:30 minutes, March, 1999, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). This program featured segments on keeping the weight off, the effects of aspirin, alcohol, and anger on heart disease, and the special health concerns of African-American males.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #10 (14:30 minutes, January, 1999, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). This program featured segments on the newest miracle drugs for arthritis, the latest research on the common cold, and information about seasonal affective disorder.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #9 (14:30 minutes, December, 1998, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Three patients talk about their experience with alternative medicine.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #8 (14:30 minutes, September, 1998, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). This program reviewed the contributions made by the famous Framingham Heart Study to our knowledge of heart disease on the occasion of the Studies fiftieth anniversary.
Producer, Writer — Beneath the North Atlantic (48 minutes, July, 1998, Oceanic Research Group, North Reading, Massachusetts). Gray seal pups are born in the middle of winter on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine. Blue sharks migrating near the coast of Rhode Island stop and frolic with divers. Two wolffish, mated for life, peer from their underwater cave. These are among the amazing creatures that inhabit the North Atlantic. Few films have been made about this ocean because it has a reputation for being cold and murky. But there are many rewards for those with patience.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #7 (14:30 minutes, June , 1998, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Surgery: we are in the operating room as Donna Kennedy has her gall bladder removed.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #6 (14:30 minutes, April, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Insomnia, backaches, headaches.
Supervising Producer — The Healthy Kids Show (eight thirty-minute episodes, February, 1998, The Family Channel). Series of magazine style programs on parenting and child health hosted by Kim Alexis.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #5 (14:30 minutes, January, 1998, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). This program focuses on diet and nutrition.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Worcester (5 minutes, October, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on the town and gown relationship between Clark University and its neighborhood.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #4 (14:30 minutes, September, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). The program focused on the doctor patient relationship and also updated viewers on the people introduced in the first program.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #3 (14:30 minutes, June, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). The program focused on stress and health and updated viewers on the people introduced in the first program.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #2 (14:30 minutes, March, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). The program focused on exercise and fitness and updated viewers on the people introduced in the first program.
Producer, Writer ¾ Chronicle: Fighting Back (5 minutes, February, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Story of woman with ALS, although totally disabled, fighting to raise money for research.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: HealthBeat Project #1 (14:30 minutes, January, 1997, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). First show in a series that followed several people who were trying to lose weight, stop smoking, and get fit.
Producer, Writer, Narrator — Sharks: The Real Story (58 minutes, 1996, Oceanic Research Group, North Reading, MA). A one-hour documentary about the search for a shark feeding frenzy. Divers travel from California to the Pacific. The film ends with a spectacular feeding frenzy sequence.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: New Hampshire Kindergarten (5 minutes, October, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). New Hampshire remains the only state in the union that does not mandate that cities and towns provide kindergarten for all children. Two mothers are trying to change this situation.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Summer of the Shark (15 minutes, October, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Oceanic Research Group divers search for blue sharks and spiny dog fish sharks in New England. Meanwhile, a tourist is attacked by a shark in Truro, and a huge white shark is caught by fisherman in New England waters.
Producer — Changes in the World, Changes in the Classroom (2 Hours, September, 1996, Hometown Productions, Greenfield, MA). National teleconference for high school students, teachers, and administrators on school-to-work, an educational reform effort.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Home Exercise Equipment (5 minutes, May, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Shape up for spring. Treadmills are most efficient. Health Riders not so great. The more you pay the fancier it gets.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Brent Larrabee Profile (5 minutes, April, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). The Framingham Massachusetts police chief has brought modern management techniques to the police department, and says some startling things.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Prenuptial Agreements (5 minutes, April, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Who has them. Why. What about love?
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Inside the Brain (14:30 minutes, March, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Program about the increasing incidence of brain tumors and some of the new technology that may help bring about successful treatment. Includes actual brain surgery footage.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Move Up Homes (5 minutes, February, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on current trends and prices in the move-up home market.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Winter Gadgets (5 minutes, February, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Humorous segment on little gadgets designed to make the winter easier to manage.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Zagat Guide (3 minutes, January, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). We follow the husband and wife team, known for their restaurant guides, as they make a whirlwind tour through Boston restaurants.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Prenatal Care (5 minutes, January, 1996, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on the importance of prenatal care.
Associate Producer, Writer — Diagnosis: Domestic Violence (23 minutes, 1995, Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Boston, MA). This is a training video for health care workers about how to diagnose and deal with patients experiencing domestic violence. Designed and laid out study guide.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Ted Williams Tunnel (14:30 minutes, December, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment one is about the tunnel. Segment two focuses on the history, politics, and funding of the Central Artery Project. Segment three is about the rest of the project still to be completed. Program includes a live segment from the tunnel entrance as the first commercial traffic is allowed through.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Underwater New England (15 minutes, November, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Program featured three segments: unusual creatures of the North Atlantic, the Chester A. Poling (a shipwreck off of Gloucester), and the return of seals to New England. Received New England Emmy Award.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Medical Mysteries (5 minutes, May, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on chronic fatigue syndrome.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Growing, Grilling, Going (5 minutes, May, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on purchasing a new bicycle.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Medical Journal (5 minutes, April, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on choosing a doctor and hospital for your personal health care.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Beating the Clock (5 minutes, March, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on the latest research into health and aging.
Producer, Writer — Chronicle: Cheap Eats (5 minutes, March, 1995, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA). Segment on good, cheap restaurants in the Boston area.
1994/1993
Producer — Learning to Lead (5 part series, 1993/1994, MCET, Cambridge, MA). Teleconference series for high school students, live from Washington DC, about the United States Congress. Students played the roles of legislators, citizens, and members of the press as they debated the Brady Gun Control Bill (1993) and health care (1994). Guests included President Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore (by tape), and Senators Dodd, Dole, Kassebaum, Kennedy, and Kerry.
Producer ¾ FutureVision (5 days, 1991, MCET, Cambridge, MA). A live teleconference/telethon produced for schools throughout the United States. Middle school students participated in this five day event designed to stimulate critical thinking about the technology and lifestyles of the future.
Producer, Writer — A&E's Chronicle: The Charles Stuart Murder Case (30 minutes, 1990, A&E Cable Network, New York, NY & WCVB, Boston, MA). A recap of the murder case that traumatized Boston in 1989.
Producer, Host — Soviet Space (90 minutes, 1990, MCET, Cambridge, MA). A live teleconference produced for schools throughout New England from the Boston Museum of Science featuring astronauts and artifacts from the Soviet space program.
Producer, Writer — Bodywatch: The Dangerous Years (30 minutes, 1989, PBS/WGBH, Boston, MA). A review of how violence affects the lives of young people, including a report on teenage suicide.
Producer, Writer — Bodywatch: The Gap Between the Sexes (30 minutes, 1989, PBS/WGBH, Boston, MA). A review of the latest scientific research about differences in gender behavior.
Senior Producer — The Western Tradition (26 hours, 1987, PBS/WGBH, Boston, MA). A telecourse on the history of western civilization.
Producer, Writer, Director, Narrator — From Busing to Books (30 minutes, 1984, WGBH, Boston, MA). A look inside South Boston High School ten years after opposition to forced busing placed the school in the national spotlight.
Producer, Writer, Director, Narrator — The Orange Line: Good News/Bad News (30 minutes, 1984, WGBH, Boston, MA). A report on the end of 90 years of elevated rail service that both created and protected low-income neighborhoods in Boston. Features shots of trains from many points of view on the now dismantled elevated tracks. Received New England Emmy award.
Producer, Writer, Director — Growing up Gay (30 minutes, 1983, WGBH, Boston, MA). Portraits of four gay teenagers.
Producer, Writer, Director — Staying In the Race (30 minutes, 1983, WGBH, Boston, MA). A report on how Japanese management techniques, which are actually the theories of the American W. Edwards Deming, helped a Massachusetts textile mill recover from bankruptcy.
Producer, Writer, Director — The Housing Dilemma (30 minutes, 1982, WGBH, Boston, MA). A report on the shortage of low-income housing in Boston.
Producer, Writer, Director — Boston's Refugees (30 minutes, 1981, WGBH, Boston, MA). A report about Cambodian refugees in Boston.
Producer, Writer, Director, Narrator — Boston Harbor (30 minutes, 1981, WGBH, Boston, MA). A report on how Boston Harbor was transformed from a working seaport to a residential and business district.
Co-Producer, Writer, Director, Narrator — Ten O’clock News: Is Anybody Hungry in Boston? (5 part series, 1979, WGBH, Boston, MA). A series about hunger and homelessness in Boston produced for The Ten O’clock News. Series nominated for a New England Emmy.
Co-producer, Writer, Director, Narrator — Do We Need Seabrook? (30 minutes, 1977, WGBH, Boston, MA). Review of nuclear power issues.
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