Alan Catello Grazioso

Alan Catello Grazioso
Grazioso in Hong Kong in 2015
Born	Alan Catello Grazioso New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Residence	Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	Italian-American
Alma mater	Northeastern University, Notre Dame High School (West Haven, Connecticut)
Occupation	Filmmaker, TV & Online Producer, Writer, Director and Editor
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Patricia Alvarado Nuñez (m. 1999)
Website	http://www.graziosopictures.com https://www.alan-grazioso.com

Alan Catello Grazioso is an Emmy Award winning and five-time nominated American filmmaker and nonfiction television and online producer, writer, director and editor. Grazioso served as producer for three PBS Kids television series including Postcards from Buster for which he was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series. His notable online video credits include "Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken" a web-based interactive project funded and published by Oxfam America which received a 2016 Webby Award Honoree achievement. On May 12, 2016 The Washington Post ran a two-minute online short film produced by Grazioso for Oxfam's "Lives on the Line" campaign and current affairs website AJ+ ran a separate social media targeted version that went viral and currently has over 6.4 million views on AJ+'s Facebook page. Alan is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston.

Alan grew up in and around New Haven, Connecticut in a blue collar family. His father, Catello F. "Cal" Grazioso, has been a union crane operator for the past 55 years with Local 478 in Connecticut. His mother, Delores "Dee" Grazioso, worked as an administrator for the Yale School of Medicine for over 25 years. He attended Notre Dame High School (West Haven, Connecticut) where he played varsity baseball, served as class treasurer and yearbook photographer before graduating in 1987. During Grazioso's Sophomore year at Northeastern University he had the opportunity to undertake a full-time six month "co-op" position at NPR (National Public Radio) in Washington, DC. While at NPR Grazioso worked closely with public radio personality Liane Hansen and interacted with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, and Noah Adams for as he recalls "an experience that just rocked my world."