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, American Experience, WGBH-TV, Univision 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,{{cite web , url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/filmmore/filmcredits.html , title=American Experience | Fidel Castro | Film Credits , publisher=PBS , date= , accessdate=2012-12-02 , archive-date=2016-12-24 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224032414/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/filmmore/filmcredits.html , url-status=dead an episode of PBS Kids' '' Postcards from Buster''{{cite web, url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0928315/combined, title="Postcards from Buster" Your Friend, My Friend (San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico) (2007), publisher=IMDb.com, accessdate=2012-12-02 which was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series. She later served as the Creator and Series Producer of the

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series "Neighborhood Kitchens" which won an

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in 2014. Patricia is currently Executive Producer of "Sing That Thing," an amateur choral group competition television series currently in its fourth season of production by broadcaster

.{{cite web, title=WGBH Launches New, Original Singing Competition, date=August 7, 2014, website=

, url=http://www.wgbh.org/press/press_release.cfm?pid=b117c2fc-2219-56f5-66f0-c89a5c25b2cb, access-date=September 12, 2014, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818044925/http://www.wgbh.org/press/press_release.cfm?pid=b117c2fc-2219-56f5-66f0-c89a5c25b2cb, archive-date=August 18, 2017, url-status=dead Alvarado Núñez is also the Executive Producer of WGBH's World Channel online, television, and podcast series "Stories from the Stage" which broadcast nationally on the PBS network.

Background

Alvarado Núñez is the daughter of the executive director of the Panamanian non-profit organization

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and a late lead computer programmer for the

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. She attended the

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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.{{cite web , url=http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/03november/alvarado.htm , title=Interview with Filmmaker Patricia Alvarado about his documentary films "El Tiante: A Red Sox Story" and "Getting to Fenway,", 11/03 , publisher=NewEnglandFilm.com , accessdate=2012-12-02 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123172310/http://newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/03november/alvarado.htm , archivedate=2012-11-23 In 1999, she married independent filmmaker and

nominated television producer

who's the owner and executive producer of Grazioso Pictures, Inc., an award-winning media content production company in Boston.http://cdn.emmyonline.org/day_35th_program_creative.pdf {{Bare URL PDF, date=March 2022 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

on June 7, 2014 for "Outstanding Informational/Instructional Series" for her work on "Neighborhood Kitchens."

Television work

In 2004, Alvarado Núñez co-produced "Fidel," a two-hour documentary about the life of

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. In 2001, Alvarado Núñez's documentary Getting to Fenway aired on WGBH-TV and won Best Sports Special at the New England Emmy Awards. Alvarado Núñez 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.{{cite web , url=http://www.wgbh.org/programs/programDetail.cfm?programid=12& , title=Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One , publisher=Wgbh.org , date= , accessdate=2012-12-02 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104145537/http://www.wgbh.org/programs/programDetail.cfm?programid=12& , archive-date=2013-01-04 , url-status=dead Alvarado Núñez has produced interviews with notable celebrities including Tony winning playwright, American composer, lyricist, singer, actor, and

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creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Queen Noor of Jordan, entertainers

Tony Plana José Antonio Plana (born April 19, 1952) is a Cuban actor and director. He is known for playing Betty Suarez's father, Ignacio Suarez, on the ABC television show ''Ugly Betty'' and for voicing Manuel "Manny" Calavera in the video game ''Grim ...

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, Jimmy Smits,

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of Cheech & Chong, novelist Junot Diaz, Sapphire author of the book Push (novel), Grammy award-winning musicians Chucho Valdés,

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and Paquito D'Rivera, journalist

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, Jorge Ramos (news anchor), and

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, sports legends such as Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher) and Luis Tiant, and others.

Photography work

Alvarado Núñez's photography work has been featured in print and on-line on

and PBS related websites including the PBS.org website MyType2, Neighborhood Kitchens online,{{cite web , url=http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Neighborhood-Kitchens-1859 , title=Neighborhood Kitchens , publisher=Wgbh.org , date= , accessdate=2012-12-02 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022215611/http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Neighborhood-Kitchens-1859 , archive-date=2012-10-22 , url-status=dead 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) Webby Award Winner, 2021 - Stories from the Stage - WGBH/THE WORLD CHANNEL - Boston

(Won) Webby, People's Voice Winner, 2020 - Stories from the Stage - WGBH/THE WORLD CHANNEL - Boston

(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

Selected filmography

Executive Producer

* 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 : ''Stories From The Stage'' (WGBH) (Season Three - currently in production)

Executive Producer

* 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){{cite web, title=Neighborhood Kitchens, work=

, url=http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Neighborhood-Kitchens-1859/episodes/Orinoco-in-Bostons-South-End-39469, access-date=2014-09-13, archive-date=2014-09-13, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913063039/http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Neighborhood-Kitchens-1859/episodes/Orinoco-in-Bostons-South-End-39469, url-status=dead * 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

for Outstanding Children's Series at the 35th ceremonies of the

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at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Co-producer

* 2005: ''Fidel Castro - (2 hour PBS special - domestically aired on American Experience (PBS) and internationally on the National Geographic Channel)"{{cite web, url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/, url-status = dead, archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050129095636/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/, archive-date = 2005-01-29, title = American Experience {{! Fidel Castro {{! PBS, website = PBS

References

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External links

Patricia Alvarado Núñez Linked In Page

Official Website

María Hinojosa: One-on-One Homepage

Neighborhood Kitchens Blog
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Neighborhood Kitchens Homepage
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