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Sharon Grimberg
Writer, Producer, Director
Sharon Grimberg is an award-winning filmmaker with 25 years of experience working for public television. According to The Baltimore Sun, her latest film McCarthy, about the infamous Wisconsin senator, met “the highest hopes that the most enlightened founders of public broadcasting had for the medium.” Her previous project, a mini-series on the history of the circus, garnered a Writer’s Guild nomination and was on The Wall Street Journal’s list of the best television of 2018. Grimberg was the executive producer of The Abolitionists, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and of the multi-platform mini-series We Shall Remain, which retold US history from a Native perspective. According to The Washington Post, the project “shifted the focus and the weight of history.” From 2003-2015, Grimberg was the senior producer of American Experience where, she played a key role in the origination, development, acquisition, and editorial oversight of more than 130 films.
Cyndee Readdean
Producer and Director
Cyndee Readdean is an award-winning director, producer, and writer. Her films have appeared on PBS, ABC, MSNBC and EPIX. Readdean directed and produced episode two of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award-winning series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War and the Emmy-nominated film The FBI & the Panther. She served as the series producer on the four-hour series By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem. Her producer credits include Freedom Summer, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the George Foster Peabody Award; the Emmy-nominated Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; and the two-hour premiere episode of the OBAMA series. Readdean is a member of DGA, PGA and WGA.
Jon Neuburger
Editor
Jon Neuburger has worked on a wide range of award-winning, nonfiction series including NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, Design Squad, and Lidia celebrates America, as well as many independent productions. His work for American Experience includes the four-hour mini-series Walt Disney; the Primetime Emmy-winning JFK, and more recently, McCarthy. His projects for the PBS current events series Frontline include Sick Around the World, a comparison of universal healthcare systems; The Brotherhood, an exploration of the Muslim brotherhood’s role in the Egyptian revolution; and The Age of AIDS. His independent productions include The Ghost Army, Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street, and Sacred Cow: the Case for (Better) Meat.
Kathleen Shugrue
Business Manager
Kathy is an Emmy Award winning television producer who has worked in television production for more than 30 years. She spent 20 years working at WGBH/Boston where she worked on a wide range of documentary series as Business and Production Manager and ultimately served as Senior Producer for the PBS Childrens’ Series ZOOM and FETCH with Ruff Ruffman. She worked with Twin Cities PBS to develop and served as Co-Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-winning children’s science series, SciGirls. Kathy has now returned to her business-roots where she serves as Business Manager for Winter Pink Films.