Resume
Produce
television magazine segments, video documentaries, educational and training
videos, corporate videos, and company newsletters. Write articles, live
presentations, and video scripts.
SKILLS
Strong creative
abilities including critical thinking, writing, directing, editing, and
storytelling skills combined with experience in project management, including
planning, budgeting, accounting, and personnel supervision.
Independent
producer and writer since 1995. Highlights include:
·
Oceanic
Research Group, North Reading, MA
Silent
Wrecks (in production), documentary about World War II
shipwrecks in the Marshall Islands.
Endangered Mermaids (2001), documentary about the endangered
Florida Manatee.
Beneath the North Atlantic
(1998), documentary about the ecology of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Sharks: The Real Story
(1996), science oriented documentary about sharks. (Recut for USA Networks as Sharks:
Search for a Frenzy).
·
Massachusetts
Department of Public Health, Boston, MA
Making Parents Your Partners (2002), documentary style training video for
healthcare professionals about children with special healthcare needs.
·
WCVB–TV,
Needham, MA
Chronicle: The HealthBeat
Project (January, 1997 – September, 1999), a series of 13
specials on current medical topics.
Have produced segments and programs for Chronicle
since 1984.
·
Hearst-Argyle
Television Productions, Needham, MA
The Healthy Kids Show (1997), a
series of 8 programs on parenting made for
Healthy Kids Magazine, broadcast on
the Family Channel.
·
Partners
HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA
Write,
edit, layout, and photograph for two quarterly newsletters on medical computing
for the Information Systems Division.
·
Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA
Annual report for the MGH Radiology
Department; Ghost wrote a series of articles for various publications about
technological developments in radiology.
·
New
England Institute of Art & Communication, Brookline, MA
Teach courses
in single and multi-camera production, writing, and documentary production.
EXPERIENCE
Massachusetts Corporation for Educational
Telecommunications, Cambridge, MA
Senior
Producer (September, 1990 – December, 1994). Responsible for the annual production
of over 500 live, interactive, instructional teleconferences for K-12 schools
throughout the United States, including studio production and live television
remotes. Managed staff of over 15 producers, associate producers, and
production assistants. Produced, directed, and/or hosted some programs.
WGBH–TV, Boston, MA
Producer
(October, 1988 – March, 1989), Bodywatch,
a series on medical topics for PBS. Produced two complete programs and portions
of a third.
WGBH–TV, Boston, MA
Senior
Producer (July, 1986 – December, 1987),The
Western Tradition, a $2.1 million, 52-part series for PBS on the history of
western civilization, funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project. Managed all phases
of production and post–production and a staff of researchers, scholars,
writers, and designers.
Executive
Producer for News and Public Affairs (October, 1985 – July, 1986).
News
Director (January, 1985 – October, 1985), The
Neighborhood Network News.
Producer
(September, 1981 – July, 1984). Produced, wrote, and directed documentaries and
other public affairs programs. Managed other producers.
Reporter
(March, 1976 – September, 1981), The Ten
O’clock News. Did general assignment reporting and substituted regularly
for anchor, show producer, and assignment editor. Nominated twice for a New
England Emmy.
Producer
(October, 1974 – December, 1975), The
Habitat Project.
News
Director (October, 1973 – October, 1974).
Program
Director/News Director (September, 1969 – July, 1973).
1984 Boston/New
England Emmy Award, Outstanding Public Affairs Programming for The Orange Line: Good News/Bad News, May
23, 1984, WGBH–TV, Boston.
1995
Boston/New England Emmy Award, Information/Public Affairs – Series (location
format) for Chronicle: Underwater New
England, November 2, 1995, WCVB–TV, Boston.
B.A.,
History (1969), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Contact:
Art Cohen
153 Warren Ave.
Boston, MA 02116
T: 617.247.3679
F: 617.247.4896
artcohen@verizon.net