Patricia Alvarado Nuñez | |
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Born | Panamá City, República de Panamá |
Education | Emerson College |
Occupation | Television producer, writer and photographer |
Years active | 1988–present |
Notable credit(s) | PBS, PBS Kids, American Experience, WGBH-TV, Univision |
Spouse(s) | Alan Catello Grazioso |
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.
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."