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Phylis Geller, Producter/Writer
Phylis Geller has been a producer and media executive for
over twenty-five years. She has overseen programs in all genres,
including history, science, drama, performance and children's programs.
Projects under her supervision have won some of the most prestigious
awards in broadcasting.
Geller is currently writing and producing a three-part series entitled
The Appalachians, which will air on public television in
Spring 2005. She was writer/producer/director of COSMIC JOURNEY:
The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message, for A&E, which
was nominated for the national Emmy award as Best Science Documentary,
2004. She was executive producer and co-writer of Korean War
Stories, a PBS special which won the national Emmy award for
Best Historical Documentary, 2002. Also for PBS, she was executive
producer and co-writer of Tesla, Master of Lightning, and
producer of pledge specials with Suze Orman, one of which was nominated
for a national Daytime Emmy as Best Service Program, 2004.
Until 1999, Geller was senior vice president of cultural programming
and new media at WETA in Washington, D.C. She was executive producer
on The Face of Russia with the Library of Congress, executive-in-charge
for Ken Burns's Thomas Jefferson , Lewis & Clark,
Frank Lloyd Wright, and Jazz, and executive producer
of the performance series The Kennedy Center Presents and
In Performance at the White House. Prior to joining WETA,
Geller was senior vice president of national productions at KCET/
Hollywood, where she supervised multi-part documentary series such
as The Astronomers, Secret Intelligence, and Millennium:
Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. Specials included Killing
Machines for NOVA. At KCET, she produced numerous dramatic programs
for American Playhouse and specials for Great Performances.
Geller has also served as Head of Special Projects for Mandalay
Media Arts, and as senior vice president for national and international
production at Maryland Public Television. She began her career at
Thirteen/WNET, New York, on The Great American Dream Machine,
continuing on to the series Theater in America, where she
produced Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein and
All Over by Edward Albee, and worked on over thirty other
plays for PBS.
Ms. Geller is a graduate of Smith College. She is married to Frederick
Pollack, poet and adjunct professor at George Washington University.
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