Education Emerson College Years active 1988–present | Spouse(s) Alan Grazioso Name Patricia Nunez | |
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Born Panama City, Republica de Panama Occupation Television producer, writer and photographer Notable credit(s) PBS, PBS Kids, American Experience, WGBH-TV, Univision | ||
Patricia Alvarado Nuñez is an award winning American television producer, director, and published photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has created, produced, co-produced, executive produced, written and directed television 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 is currently Executive Producer of "Sing That Thing," a new choir competition television series currently in its third season of production by broadcaster WGBH.
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Background
Alvarado Nuñez 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 marketing communications and advertising. In 1999, she married independent filmmaker and Emmy Award nominated television producer Alan Catello Grazioso who's the owner and executive producer of Grazioso Pictures, Inc., an award-winning media content production company in Boston. In November 2012, Alvarado Nuñez 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 invite of the World Bank, Alvarado Nuñez 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
In 2004, Alvarado Nuñez co-produced "Fidel," a two-hour documentary about the life of Fidel Castro. In 2001, Alvarado Nuñez's documentary Getting to Fenway aired on WGBH-TV and won Best Sports Special at the New England Emmy Awards. Alvarado Nuñez 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 Nuñez has produced interviews with notable celebrities including 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 Nuñez'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 Nuñez 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
- (Won) New England Emmy Award, 2014 - Neighborhood Kitchens - WGBH - Boston]
- (Won) Imagen Award, 2011 - Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One (WGBH-Boston)]
- (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2008 - Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids
- (Won) Parents' Choice Award, 2008 - Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids