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Patricia Alvarado Núñez is an American television producer, director, and published photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has created, produced, co-produced, executive produced, written and directed television and digitally distributed documentaries, music specials and series on social and cultural issues including the American Experience PBS primetime documentary Fidel in 2004, an episode of PBS Kids' Postcards from Buster which was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series. She later served as the Creator and Series Producer of the WGBH series "Neighborhood Kitchens" which won an Emmy Award in 2014. Patricia was an Executive Producer of "Sing That Thing," an amateur choral group competition television series which ran for four seasons by broadcaster WGBH. Alvarado Núñez is currently the Executive Producer of WGBH's World Channel online, television, and podcast series "Stories from the Stage" which broadcast nationally on the PBS network and won two Webby Awards.

Background

Alvarado is the daughter of the executive director of the Panamanian non-profit organization Fundacion Pro Integracion and a late lead computer programmer for the National Bank of Panama. She attended the University of Panama School of Communication where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and Emerson College in Boston where she received a master's degree in global marketing communications and advertising. In 1999, she married independent filmmaker and Emmy Award nominated television producer Alan Catello Grazioso who's an executive producer of multimedia at Harvard University's Harvard Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In November 2012, Alvarado Núñez debuted her blog series on WGBH.org with an article entitled "Five Gluten-Free Recipes from Around the World. She was series producer of one of the United States longest-running Latino public television series La Plaza at WGBH-TV which continuously broadcast for 34 years. At the invitation of the World Bank, Alvarado Núñez represented the United States public broadcasting industry as a panelist at the 4th International Public Media Forum "Sustainability, Inclusion and the New Latin American Reality" in Brasilia, Brazil. and the 6th International Public Media Forum in Bogotá, Colombia. Patricia won her 5th Emmy Award on June 7, 2014 for "Outstanding Informational/Instructional Series" for her work on "Neighborhood Kitchens."

Television work

During 2021, Alvarado won her second Webby Award as executive producer of the GBH national series “Stories from the Stage.” In 2004, Alvarado co-produced "Fidel," a two-hour documentary about the life of Fidel Castro. In 2001, Alvarado'sdocumentary Getting to Fenway aired on WGBH-TV and won Best Sports Special at the New England Emmy Awards. Alvarado produced the public television series María Hinojosa: One-on-One, a five-year running studio-based program hosted by Maria Hinojosa and distributed nationally by American Public Television, won Best National Informational Program at the Imagen Awards in Los Angeles.

Alvarado has produced interviews with notable celebrities including Tony winning playwright, American composer, lyricist, singer, actor, and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Queen Noor of Jordan, entertainers Tony Plana, Phylicia Rashād, Jimmy Smits, Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong, novelist Junot Diaz, Sapphire author of the book Push (novel), Grammy award-winning musicians Chucho Valdés, Danilo Pérez and Paquito D'Rivera, journalist Alfredo Corchado, Jorge Ramos (news anchor), and María Elena Salinas, sports legends such as Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher) and Luis Tiant, and others.

Photography work

Alvarado's photography work has been featured in print and on-line on WGBH and PBS related websites including the PBS.org website MyType2, Neighborhood Kitchens online, WGBH High School Quiz Show online (seasons 1 & 2), WGBH Digital Mural. Her photography featured on RootCapital.org was taken in Peru, Rwanda and Kenya. Alvarado's photography work was published twice as the front cover of the September 2013 and May 2015 editions of WGBH Explore! Member Magazine and in The Boston Globe article by Glenn Yoder in the June 19, 2012 online and print editions.

Awards and nominations

1. (Won) Webby Award Winner, 2021 - Stories from the Stage - WGBH/THE WORLD CHANNEL - Boston
2. (Won) Webby, People's Voice Winner, 2020 - Stories from the Stage - WGBH/THE WORLD CHANNEL - Boston
3. (Won) New England Emmy Award, 2014 - Neighborhood Kitchens - WGBH - Boston
4. (Won) Imagen Award, 2011 - Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One - WGBH - Boston
5. (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2008 - Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids
6. (Won) Parents' Choice Award, 2008 - Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids

Selected filmography & photography

Executive producer

• 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 : Stories From The Stage (WGBH) (Season Six - currently in production)
• 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014: Sing That Thing (WGBH) (Season One - produced six episodes, Season Two - produced eight episodes)

Senior news producer

• 2014: WGBH News (produced 15 television, radio and online stories - completed)

Series producer

• 2013: Neighborhood Kitchens (WGBH season two - produced 13 half-hour episodes - completed)
• 2011-2012: Neighborhood Kitchens (WGBH season one - produced 12 half-hour episodes - completed)
• 2011-2006: María Hinojosa: One-on-One (WGBH, APT - 5 seasons - produced 85 half-hour episodes)

Producer

• 2006: Postcards from Buster ("Your Friend, My Friend") which was nominated for a 2008 national daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series at the 35th ceremonies of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at Lincoln Center in New York City.
• 2002: WGBH-TV 2003 production El Tiante: A Red Sox Story, featuring Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame pitcher Luis Tiant, which premiered at the Harvard Film Archives and on television on GBH Channel 2 (PBS-Boston).

Co-producer

• 2005: Fidel Castro - (2 hour PBS special - domestically aired on American Experience (PBS) and internationally on the National Geographic Channel)"

Photographer

• 2024: Portrait of Devi Lockwood: Radcliffe Moments: Friendship through the Archives—Outdoor and online exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Harvard Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Display Location: Radcliffe Yard from September to December, 2024

• 2024: Portrait of Narges Mahyar: Radcliffe Moments: Communicating Climate Change—Outdoor and online exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Harvard Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Display Location: Radcliffe Yard from September to December, 2024

References

1. ^ "American Experience | Fidel Castro | Film Credits". PBS. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
2. ^ ""Postcards from Buster" Your Friend, My Friend (San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico) (2007)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
3. ^ Day 35 Program emmyonline.org
4. "WGBH News and Media Relations". Archived from the original on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
5. "WGBH Launches New, Original Singing Competition". WGBH. August 7, 2014. Archived from the original on August 18, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
6. "Liz Cheng Talks "Stories from the Stage" WORLD Channel Premiere (AUDIO)". HuffPost. 5 October 2017.
7. "Fundación Pro-Integración". Funproi.org. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
8. ^ "Interview with Filmmaker Patricia Alvarado about his documentary films "El Tiante: A Red Sox Story" and "Getting to Fenway", 11/03". NewEnglandFilm.com. Archived from the original on 2012-11-23. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
9. "WGBH Food: Neighborhood Kitchens: Five Gluten-Free Recipes From Around the World". Wgbh.org. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
10. "La Plaza". WGBH. Archived from the original on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
11. "EBC and World Bank to Organize International Conference on Public Media in Latin America". World Bank Group (Press release). August 21, 2013.
12. Press release wgbh.org
13. ^ "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
14. "26th Annual Imagen Awards - Nominees & Winners | The Imagen Foundation". Imagen.org. 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
15. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
16. Tony Plana Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
17. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
18. "La Plaza Episode Guide 2005 - Jimmy Smits". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
19. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
20. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
21. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
22. "La Plaza Episode Guide 0001 - Chucho Valdes in Concert". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
23. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
24. "Paquito D'Rivera in Studio". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
25. "Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
26. Conversations with Ilan Stavans : Jorge Ramos. (VHS tape, 2002). . OCLC 49394005. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
27. "WGBH Media Player Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One: Maria Elena Salinas". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
28. "Credits — Living with MyType2". PBS. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
29. ^ "Neighborhood Kitchens". Wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
30. "High School Quiz Show". Wgbh.org. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
31. "digital mural". WGBH. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
32. "Root Capital". Root Capital. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
33. "WGBH Television". WGBH.
34. "New WGBH show explores neighborhoods and their restaurants - Food & dining". The Boston Globe. 2012-06-19. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
35. "NEW Webby Gallery + Index".
36. "NEW Webby Gallery + Index".
37. "The 37th Boston/New England Emmy®Award Winners" (PDF). newenglandemmy.org. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
38. aria Hinojosa: One-on-One (WGBH)
39. "Postcards from Buster".
40. "The Struggle To Find A Starter Home In A Luxury-Housing Market". WGBH News. August 6, 2014.
41. Alvarado Núñez, Patricia (July 30, 2014). "How Climate Change Is Taking A Toll On Urban Trees". WGBH News.
42. Alvarado Núñez, Patricia (July 29, 2014). "Alewife's Silver Maple Forest: Growth And Conflict". WGBH News.
43. Alvarado Núñez, Patricia (July 9, 2014). "In Boston, Grow Your Own Birds And Bees". WGBH News.
44. "Bringing Commercial Farming Back To Boston". WGBH News. July 1, 2014.
45. Alvarado Núñez, Patricia (July 1, 2014). "In Athol, Learning The Rhythm Of Farm Life". WGBH News.
46. "Where Boston Falls Short Of World Class". WGBH News. May 29, 2014.
47. "Boston's Rising Star In The Global Economy". WGBH News. May 27, 2014.
48. "Overcoming Cultural Stigmas About Mental Illness And Barriers To Treatment". WGBH News. May 5, 2014.
49. "Curling For Gold: Local Paralympians Headed To Sochi". WGBH News. February 24, 2014.
50. "Neighborhood Kitchens". WGBH. Archived from the original on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
51. "Harvard Film Archive Screening". Harvard Film Archive. January 31, 2003. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
52. "WGBH-American Archive of Public Broadcasting". American Archive of Public Broadcasting. January 1, 2003. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
53. "American Experience | Fidel Castro | PBS". PBS. Archived from the original on 2005-01-29.
54. "Radcliffe Moments: Devi Lockwood". Harvard Radcliffe Institute. September 20, 2024. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
55. "Radcliffe Moments: Devi Lockwood". Harvard Radcliffe Institute. September 20, 2024. Retrieved October 14, 2024.

External links

• Patricia Alvarado Núñez Linked In Page
• New England Film Article
• Official Website
• MIT Press Article
• María Hinojosa: One-on-One Homepage
• Neighborhood Kitchens Blog Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Neighborhood Kitchens Homepage
• Patricia Alvarado at IMDb

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