Elizabeth Deane Explained

Elizabeth Deane
Occupation:Producer, writer, and director
Children:2
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 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 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 documentary 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biographies. WGBH Arts. March 2, 2015.
  2. Web site: Vietnam Online Transcripts and Credits. March 29, 2005. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  3. A TV Monument to the 'TV War'. William A. Henry III. October 3, 1983. Time.
  4. America's First Television War. William Broyles Jr. Newsweek. October 10, 1983.
  5. Web site: America's Mandarin. March 29, 2005. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  6. Web site: Homefront USA. March 29, 2005. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  7. Web site: The End of the Tunnel. March 29, 2005. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  8. Web site: Vietnam: A Television History. Peabody Awards. March 2, 2015.
  9. Crisis in Central America, on PBS. John Corry. The New York Times. April 9, 1985.
  10. Web site: Frontline: Crisis in Central America (PBS). Peabody Awards. March 2, 2015.
  11. War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. Zvi Dor-Ner . Elizabeth Deane . David Alan Rosenberg . The Journal of American History. 73. 3. December 1989. 2936578.
  12. War, Peace and nukes: How the world changed. Marc Gunther. Detroit Free Press. January 23, 1989.
  13. Prepare to be hooked on War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. Mike Boone. The Gazette. January 22, 1989.
  14. News: Television Review; Once More, Remembering When Rock Was Young. John J. O'Connor. September 25, 1995. The New York Times. March 2, 2015.
  15. Hail, Hail rock 'n' roll. Tina Maples. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. September 21, 1995.
  16. PBS Launches Season with 'Rock & Roll,' a stellar documentary. Tom Dorsey. Louisville Courier-Journal. September 24, 1995.
  17. Web site: Rock & Roll. Peabody Awards. March 2, 2015.
  18. Web site: Elizabeth Deane. OpenVault. March 2, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103631/http://openvault.wgbh.org/scholar/elizabeth-deane. April 2, 2015. dead.
  19. Web site: 28th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Recipients. ASCAP. March 2, 2015.
  20. Report by Nominee All Positions Elizabeth Deane. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
  21. Web site: Television Huw Wheldon Award for the Best Arts Programme or Series in 1997. BAFTA Awards. March 2, 2015.
  22. Web site: Cast & Crew: Film Credits for Nixon. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  23. Recurring Patterns. Rick Kogan. Chicago Tribune. October 15, 1990.
  24. The Countless Sides of Richard Nixon. Mark Feeney. Boston Globe. October 15, 1990.
  25. Web site: Broadcast awards. PBS. March 2, 2015. March 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210802/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/about/award/broadcast. dead.
  26. Web site: Cast and Crew. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  27. The Bootleg Politician. The Independent on Sunday. Phillip Whitehead. October 11, 1992.
  28. Web site: BPG Awards 1993. December 31, 2007. Broadcasting Press Guild. March 2, 2015.
  29. Web site: The American Experience: The Presidents. Peabody Awards. March 2, 2015.
  30. Web site: Cast & Crew: The Rockefellers. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  31. In the Footsteps of Giants of Power. Hal Boedeker. Orlando Sentinel. October 15, 2000.
  32. Tycoon's Tale – The Rockefellers. Walter H. Combs. Buffalo News. October 15, 2000.
  33. Web site: Cast & Crew: Film Credits. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  34. American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant. . May 3, 2002.
  35. That Man in Grant's Tomb is More Than He Seemed. Ron Wertheimer. The New York Times. May 3, 2002.
  36. Web site: The Film and More. December 19, 2003. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  37. Citizen King. Dorothy Rabinowitz. Wall Street Journal. January 16, 2004.
  38. Web site: Llew Smith films and links. BlueSpark Collaborative. March 2, 2015.
  39. Web site: Film Description. August 26, 2005. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  40. Prolific Letters Give us a Terrific Twosome for the Ages. Ted Mahar. The Oregonian. January 22, 2006.
  41. American Experience: John & Abigail Adams. Irv Letofsky. Hollywood Reporter. January 23, 2006.
  42. Tony Awards Broadcast Receives Writers Guild Nomination. Andrew Gans. December 14, 2006. Playbill. March 2, 2015.
  43. Web site: Producers. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  44. Web site: Latin Music USA. PBS. March 2, 2015.
  45. Evolution of Latin Music. Jordan Levin. Miami Herald. October 11, 2009.
  46. Why US Moves to a Latino Beat. David Hinckley. New York Daily News. October 12, 2009.
  47. Web site: Aspen Ideas Festival 2009. The Aspen Institute. March 2, 2015.
  48. Web site: Elizabeth Deane. WGBH. March 2, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103631/http://openvault.wgbh.org/scholar/elizabeth-deane. April 2, 2015. dead.
  49. Executive Producer Got Her Start in Coconut Grove. Hal Boedekeer. Miami Herald. September 20, 1992.

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