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Peter Bowker Writer, World on Fire MASTERPIECE fans remember ’s impassioned adaptation of Wuthering Heights from 2009, which captured Emily Brontë’s masterpiece in all its complexity. With World on Fire he has created a plot with even more twists, turns, and memorable characters, centered on the chaotic events at the outset of World War II. Bowker has been an established screenwriter in the U.K since penning scripts for in the early 1990s. Since then, he has written for many long-running series such as Where the Heart Is and Clocking Off. His original work has included Undercover Heart; Flesh and Blood, for which he won Best Writer at the RTS Awards; Blackpool, which was awarded BANFF Film Festival Best Mini-Series and Global Television Grand Prize; and Occupation, which was awarded Best Drama Serial at the BAFTA Awards, in addition to Best Short-Form Drama at the WGGB Awards and another RTS Best Writer Award. He has since written and . Both productions have won prestigious awards, including a Best Drama BAFTA for Marvellous, which became the most popular BBC2 single drama of the last 20 years. Most recently he has written an adaptation of John Lanchester’s novel Capital and two series of the acclaimed The A Word.

Julia Brown Lois Bennett, World on Fire Driven to escape her cheating lover and dysfunctional family, Julia Brown’s character in World on Fire finds a wartime role that exploits her remarkable singing talent. Luckily, Brown herself is a gifted vocalist and sang much of the soundtrack that accompanies the episodes. In earlier work, she has performed a host of supporting roles on prominent TV series. 2018 saw her as a recurring character in the fourth season of the critically acclaimed mystery crime drama Shetland, playing a misunderstood teenager. In the same year, she was seen as Ecgywn, future Queen consort of Wessex, in BBC America’s popular The Last Kingdom, based on Bernard Cornwell’s stirring Saxon Stories. Brown was previously best known for her 2014 portrayal of Keri Summers in CBBC’s M.I. High, a whimsical action series following the exploits of four children fighting criminals on behalf of the fictional spy agency MI9. She reteamed with CBBC in 2015 for the TV series Eve, about the world’s first fully sentient artificial person coming to live with an ordinary family. In 2020, Brown will also be in The Angel of Darkness, the anticipated sequel to 2018’s The Alienist.

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Jonah Hauer-King Harry Chase, World on Fire

Jonah Hauer-King plays an idealistic British translator turned army officer in World on Fire. He is currently in production for the live action film of The Little Mermaid, directed by Rob Marshall, in which he will take on the role of Prince Eric. Jonah last appeared on MASTERPIECE as Laurie in Little Women. Most recently, in 2019 he starred alongside Clive Owen and Tim Roth in Francois Girard’s film The Song Of Names, and played the young lead in Sony’s A Dog’s Way Home, alongside Ashley Judd. In 2018, he starred opposite Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale in James Demonaco’s Once Upon A Time In Staten Island. Other credits include Ashes In The Snow, Old Boys and his first feature lead role, The Last Photograph. He was also in the West End’s run of The Entertainer starring opposite Kenneth Branagh. Jonah studied at Cambridge University.

Helen Hunt Nancy Campbell, World on Fire

Helen Hunt’s character in World on Fire is a reporter addicted to danger, trying to discover the truth about Nazi from inside the Third Reich itself. Winner of a Best Actress Oscar® for the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, Hunt has had a remarkable career, not only for her acclaimed performances on film, TV, and the stage, but also as an accomplished writer, director and producer. She combined all these talents in Mad About You, the 1990s TV for which she acted, wrote, directed, and produced, earning four Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress, four Golden Globe® Awards (three as lead actress and one as producer for Best Comedy), and a Screen Actors Guild Award®. The hit series is in a limited revival on Spectrum Originals. In other work, her 2012 performance in the movie The Sessions garnered her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and nominations in the same category by the Academy Awards, Golden Globe® Awards, SAG Awards, Broadcast Film Critics’ Awards and BAFTA Awards. Hunt’s recent big screen roles include I See You, Candy Jar, The Miracle Season and Ride (which she also co-wrote, produced, and directed), as well as The Night Clerk, due for release in 2020. On the small screen, she could last be seen in the 2017 Fox drama series Shots Fired, in which she played the governor of North Carolina, coping with a pair of racially charged shootings.

Zofia Wichłacz Kasia Tomaszeski, World on Fire

Playing a Warsaw waitress turned freedom fighter, Zofia Wichłacz is an award-winning actress with many stellar credits on Polish film, television, and stage, now breaking into the international scene. Most recently, in 2019 she starred in the critically acclaimed Danish television program, DNA, playing Julita, the young mother at the center of the story. In 2018, she starred in the original series 1983, an alternate take on history in which the fall of communism never took place. Also in 2018, she appeared in Matthew Weiner’s Amazon series The Romanoffs and the critically acclaimed Polish program, Rojst for Showmax. The previous year, she won the Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival as one of the rising new international stars for her performances in Warsaw ’44, Amok, and other impressive productions. Also for Warsaw ’44, she was the youngest actress (at age 19) to win the Eagle/Discovery of the Year— ’s Academy Award.

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Susanne Simpson Executive Producer, MASTERPIECE

Since joining MASTERPIECE in 2007, Simpson has been responsible for such programs as Sherlock, Wolf Hall, and Victoria, and oversaw all aspects of the U.S. broadcast of the hit series Downton Abbey, the most watched drama in PBS history and recipient of 59 Emmy® nominations and 12 wins. She is also the Executive Producer of MASTERPIECE Studio, a podcast with more than 14 million downloads since 2016. Simpson created the MASTERPIECE Trust, a fund to ensure the future of the series. She is a two-time Academy Award® nominee and two-time Emmy® winner for her documentary and dramatic films for television and theater. Prior to MASTERPIECE, she was a Senior Producer for the science series NOVA, responsible for the content development, financing, and production of new programming, and was the executive producer of IMAX productions such as the award-winning Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure. Simpson is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Writers Guild.

About MASTERPIECE Winner of 83 Primetime Emmys® and 16 Peabody Awards, MASTERPIECE has been essential Sunday night viewing for millions of fans since 1971. Rebecca Eaton is the executive-producer-at-large for the series, and Susanne Simpson is the executive producer. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust. Presented on PBS by WGBH Boston, MASTERPIECE is known for recent hits such as Sherlock, Downton Abbey and Victoria, and beloved classics such as Upstairs Downstairs, Prime Suspect, The Forsyte Saga and Poldark. .org/masterpiece

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “George W. Bush” Premieres Monday and Tuesday, May 4-5, 2020

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Andrew H. Card, Jr. served as Chief of Staff in the presidential administration of George W. Bush from November 26, 2000 to April 14, 2006, making him the second longest- serving White House chief of staff.

From 1992 until 1993, Mr. Card served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush. In August 1992, at the request of President Bush, Secretary Card coordinated the administration’s disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Card served in President Bush’s administration as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. He served in President Reagan's administration as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was liaison to governors, statewide elected officials, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials.

Prior to being named Chief of Staff for the presidential administration of George W. Bush, Mr. Card was General Motors’ Vice President of Government Relations. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Card was President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association (AAMA), the trade association whose members were Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation.

Mr. Card served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975-1983. In 1982, he was named Legislator of the Year by the National Republican Legislators Association and received the Distinguished Legislator Award from the Massachusetts Municipal Association.

Mr. Card graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. He attended the Merchant Marine Academy and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards. A native of Holbrook, Massachusetts, Andy and his wife, Kathleene, have three children and four grandchildren.

Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary, was the primary spokesperson for President George W. Bush and delivered the daily White House briefings from 2001 to 2003. He previously served as the spokesperson for the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. In his almost four years working for President Bush, he served as spokesperson during the historic presidential recount, September 11th, two wars and the anthrax attack. His best- selling book, Taking Heat, details his years in the White House and reached #7 on Best Sellers list.

Prior to joining the Bush campaign, Fleischer was the national spokesperson and communications director for Elizabeth Dole's presidential campaign. He has also worked on Capitol Hill as a press secretary to three Congressmen and one U.S. Senator.

Fleischer is a native of Pound Ridge, New York, and a 1982 graduate of Vermont’s Middlebury College. Now president of his own firm, Ari Fleischer Communications Inc., he offers advice to clients in the corporate and sports worlds on how to handle the press. He is also a Fox contributor.

He resides in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Becki, and their two children.

Filmmakers

Susan Bellows (Senior Producer of ) is an award-winning producer and writer with more than 20 years of experience producing national programs for public television. Bellows was the producer and director of the Emmy Award-winning JFK, which premiered on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in 2013, and writer, director and producer for The Bombing of Wall Street, which premiered on the series in 2018. Since joining the series in 2003, she has provided editorial support and guidance to its broadcast and new media work. Previously, Bellows served as senior producer for the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series Africans in America. Her other producing credits include films for The Great Depression, for which she received an Emmy nomination, and America’s War on Poverty, both productions of Blackside, Inc. Bellows also co-produced New Worlds, New Forms for the WNET-produced series Dancing, an eight-hour landmark series on dance forms around the world.

Barak Goodman (Writer; Senior Producer for Ark Media) has become one of the most prolific and respected nonfiction filmmakers in America. A co-founder of Ark Media, his films have been nominated for an Academy Award and won multiple Emmy and Writers Guild Awards, duPont-Columbia and Peabody Awards, the RFK Journalism Prize, and three times been official selections at the . Among his many films for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE are Oklahoma City, about the worst domestic terrorist attack in American history and its roots in the rise of the radical right; My Lai, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning film on America’s worst war crime; Scottsboro, the Academy Award-nominated film on the trial of black teenagers falsely accused of rape in Depression- era Alabama; Clinton, a four-hour of the 42nd president; and Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation. Goodman was also the director, writer and producer of the six-hour PBS series Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee. He wrote and directed Makers, the first complete history of the modern women's movement, and directed six films for the PBS series FRONTLINE, including the Peabody Award-winning Lost Children of Rockdale County and the duPont-Columbia-winning series Failure to Protect. Slay the Dragon, a film about gerrymandering and voter suppression, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost 40 years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The Statue of Liberty; Huey Long; Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; Jackie Robinson; The Vietnam War and, most recently, Country Music.

A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time. In March 2009, David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said, “... Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films, he showed us a new way of looking at our collective past and ourselves.” The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of his films, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.”

Future film projects include films on Ernest Hemingway and Muhammad Ali, among others.

Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including 16 , two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations. In September 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sarah Burns is the author of The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding (Knopf, 2011) and, along with David McMahon and Ken Burns, the producer, writer and director of the documentary The Central Park Five, about the five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted in the infamous Central Park Jogger rape of 1989. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, was named the Best Non- Fiction film of 2012 by the New York Film Critics Circle and won a 2013 Peabody Award.

She produced and directed, along with David McMahon and Ken Burns, the two- part, four-hour Jackie Robinson, a biography of the celebrated baseball player and civil rights icon, which she wrote with McMahon. The film aired on PBS in April 2016 and she and McMahon were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program and won a WGA award for Documentary Script. She recently finished a documentary about public housing in Atlanta called East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story and is working on a documentary series on the life of Muhammad Ali.

David McMahon has been making award-winning documentary films for more than a decade. In 2010, along with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, he wrote and produced The Tenth Inning, a two-part, four-hour update to their Emmy Award-winning series, Baseball. With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, produced and directed The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about the five teenagers who were wrongly convicted in the Central Park Jogger case of 1989, which won a Peabody Award and Best Non-Fiction Film of 2012 from The New York Film Critics Circle.

In 2016 he teamed with Ken Burns and Sarah Burns again to produce and direct Jackie Robinson, a two-part, four-hour biography of the baseball and civil rights icon, for which he and Sarah Burns received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program and won a WGA Award for Documentary Script.

He recently completed East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story, a two-hour film about a housing project in Atlanta, and is currently at work on a series on the life of Muhammad Ali.

PBS AMERICAN PORTRAIT Winter 2020 TCA Press Tour Panel Bios

Bill Margol has spent over 30 years working in the media industry, covering the ground of writer, producer, editor, developer and executive. A graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Loyola University’s Masters in Emerging Media program, Bill was Executive Producer of Special Projects at Sci-Fi Channel, overseeing specials, documentaries, stunts and events from 1993-1998. He joined TNT in Atlanta as Director of Production in 1998, and in 2003 joined Travel Channel as VP of Production, where he was responsible for the launch of such groundbreaking series as “: No Reservations.” In 2008, Bill joined National Geographic Television as VP Development, where he created the Emmy- nominated series "Brain Games.”

In 2014, Bill joined PBS as Sr. Director of Programming & Development and has overseen such programs as the Emmy-winning documentary A YEAR In SPACE, the groundbreaking series WE’LL MEET AGAIN WITH , as well as programming such as 8 DAYS: TO THE MOON AND BACK, BIG BLUE LIVE, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, LIFE FROM ABOVE, BEYOND A YEAR IN SPACE, GENIUS: WITH STEPHEN HAWKING and WILD ALASKA LIVE.

Jon Kamen, as Chairman and CEO of RadicalMedia, has created one of the world’s leading generators of premium content across all media platforms. Originally renowned for its commercial and advertising success, RadicalMedia has grown to dominate every corner of superior content creation including television, feature films, music programming, live events, graphic and interactive design. Jon continues to embrace the future and push innovation by collaborating with Radical’s community of artists, directors, producers, coders, thinkers, makers and doers.

With over 150 credits, Jon’s artistic vision has been the force behind many Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Peabody Award- winning and nominated titles, including The Fog of War; What Happened, Miss Simone?; Paradise Lost; Concert for George; the pilot episode of AMC’s “;” “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with ;” and “The Fourth Estate.” RadicalMedia partnered with and National Geographic for two environmental documentary films: Paris to Pittsburgh and From the Ashes. Recent

credits include Activate: A Global Citizen Movement for NatGeo, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes for Netflix and the upcoming “Grant” series for the History Channel. Harpo recently announced Kamen as part of the creative team, serving as executive producer for the upcoming Apple TV+ mental health series with Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry.

Kamen, a recipient of the Industry Tribute at the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards, Mayor Bloomberg’s “Made in NY” Award and Smithsonian’s National Design Award, sits on the board of trustees for Rhode Island School of Design, Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Museum of the Moving Image and Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation.

Dave Sirulnick, an award-winning executive producer and President of Entertainment at RadicalMedia, lends his extensive industry expertise toward creating and producing premium content, series, documentaries, digital, video, news programming, specials and live events.

Sirulnick has served as executive producer on several Radical projects, including “Grant,” slated to debut on History Channel in 2020; “More Than an Athlete,” featuring Lebron James, for ESPN+; “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” on Netflix; Emmy-nominated documentary “The Fourth Estate” and The Family Business: Trump and Taxes on Showtime; Oh, Hello on Broadway for Netflix, “The Untold Stories of the 90s” on History Channel; ’s America on PBS; “This is A.I.” for Discovery; and IDA Documentary Award-winning series “Bobby Kennedy for President” on Netflix. Most recently, Harpo announced Sirulnick as part of the creative team, serving as executive producer for the upcoming Apple TV+ mental health series with Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry.

Prior to joining RadicalMedia, Sirulnick served as Executive Vice President of News & Docs at MTV. During his 28-year tenure at MTV, he developed and led some of the channel’s leading and longest-running television series, including Emmy Award-winning documentary series “Made” (2000-2012), Emmy Award-winning series “True Life” (1998-2014), “Total Request Live” (1998-2008), “The Week in Rock” (1987-1997), and Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary series “Choose or Lose” (1992-2012), geared toward increasing the political awareness of its viewers and promoting their participation in local and national elections.

During this time, Sirulnick served as executive producer for MTV’s annual Video Music Awards, producing the pre-show and the awards show for 16 years. Sirulnick also helmed the creation of award-winning music documentaries for the network that featured the likes of superstars Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minaj and Demi Lovato.

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Laura Bradley has been teaching middle school students since 1988, and currently teaches English, broadcast media and design lab at Kenilworth Junior High School in Petaluma, California. She is a PBS Digital Innovator All-Star, Google Certified Innovator, National Board Certified Teacher, Bay Area Writing Project Teacher Consultant and first-place winner of the Henry Ford Teacher Innovator Award.

Danielle Bainbridge is an academic, writer and web series host based in . She has a PhD in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University (2018), and a BA in English and Theatre Studies from the University of (2012). In the 2018-2019 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern, where she teaches courses on history, culture and performance. She is the primary researcher, writer and host of the PBS Digital Studios web series THE ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING, which focuses on highlighting the unusual and under-told history that makes up our collective story and streams on YouTube and . Her ongoing book project, Refinements of Cruelty: Enslavement, Enfreakment, and the Performance Archive, examines the lives of 19th century disabled African American sideshow and freak show performers who were enslaved.

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Great Performances TCA Bios

Great Performances: Ann premieres nationwide Friday, June 19 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf and the PBS Video app

Great Performances – Gloria: A Life premieres nationwide Friday, June 26 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf and the PBS Video app

Holland Taylor Playwright and Actor, Ann in Great Performances: Ann Facebook: @HollandTaylorOfficial; Twitter: @HollandTaylor

Holland Taylor’s New York stage performances include Bess in “Breakfast with Les and Bess,” the original productions of “,” opposite Alan Bates, A.R. Gurney’s “The Cocktail Hour” and recently David Lindsay Abaire’s dark comedy “Ripcord” at The Manhattan Theatre Club, and Broadway’s “” with Nathan Lane. Over the years in , she has performed on stage in “Kindertransport” and played opposite Christopher Lloyd in Yasmina Reza’s “The Unexpected Man” at the Geffen Playhouse. Narrating for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Stravinsky’s “Persephone for Essa- Pekka Salonen” and for John Adams in Phillip Glass’ “Ahknaten,” Taylor also delivered the spoken word in the Harry Potter Suite for Maestro with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has worked extensively in film, appearing in “Romancing the Stone,” “Jewel of the Nile,” “To Die For,” “Next Stop Wonderland,” “One Fine Day,” “George of the Jungle,” “,” “Happy Accidents,” “Spy Kids” (2 & 3), “Keeping the Faith,” “,” and Amy Poehler’s “Baby Mama” and “Gloria Bell,” starring Julianne Moore. On television, Taylor has been nominated for the Emmy seven times, winning Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on “.” Among numerous series starring roles: “The Powers that Be,” Norman Lear’s highly acclaimed political satire; “” with ; and ’s “.” Her final season of “Mr. Mercedes,” a limited TV series for Audience Network, is airing now and stars Brenden Gleeson. Taylor has recently filmed three movies: “The Stand-In” with Drew Barrymore; “Bombshell,” starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and John Lithgow; and “Bill and Ted Face the Music.” Taylor is currently filming Ryan Murphy’s “.” Her performance in Broadway’s “Ann” at Lincoln Center’s Beaumont Theatre earned rave reviews, earning Taylor a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, and the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Solo Performance.

Christine Lahti Actor, Gloria Steinem in Great Performances – Gloria: A Life Facebook: @ChristineLahtiOfficial; Twitter: @ChristineALahti; Instagram: @officialchristinelahti

Christine Lahti earned her first Oscar nomination in 1985’s “Swing Shift” and then took the statue home 10 years as a first-time director for her short film “Lieberman in Love.” In 1998, after multiple nominations, Lahti won both the Emmy and her second Golden Globe Award (TV movie “No Place Like Home” was the first) for her portrayal of Dr. Kathryn Austin on “.” Three years later, her feature film directorial debut “My First Mister” opened the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Recent film credits include film “Becks,” a lead role in Andrew Currie’s independent feature “The Steps” and, opposite Kristin Wiig and Hailee Steinfeld, in “Hateship Loveship,” which had its premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Additional film credits include Sidney Lumet’s “Running on Empty,” for which she received the 1998 L.A. Film Critics Award as well as a Golden Globe nomination; “Leaving Normal” directed by Ed Zwick; “The Doctor” with William Hurt; Bill Forsyth’s “Housekeeping,” which was voted one of the 20 best films of 1987 by many of America’s film critics; “Whose Life is it Anyway?” and “…and Justice for All.” On the TV front, Lahti was most recently seen as Andrea Stevens in “The Good Fight.” She is also well known for her recurring role of Laurel Hitchin in NBC’s “The Blacklist.” Other television credits include Doris McGarrett in CBS’s “Hawaii Five-O” and Sonya Paxton in a recurring role on “Law & Order: SVU.” Her most notable work on the small screen was a starring role on the critically acclaimed series “Jack & Bobby,” for which she received both SAG and Golden Globe nominations. She has also starred in numerous television movies including “Amerika” (Emmy and Golden Globe nomination), Showtime’s “Out of the Ashes,” “The Pilot’s Wife,” “Open House” and “The Book of Ruth” among others. An esteemed thespian, Lahti last appeared on the New York stage with her performance in The Culture Project’s “The Exonerated” alongside and Martin Short. Prior to that, she starred with Morgan Freeman in the Broadway debut “8,” a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage. She also joined the cast of the Tony Award-winning play “God of Carnage,” replacing Marcia Gay Harden in the role. In Los Angeles, she earned a Drama Desk nomination for her role in “Three Hotels” and was also seen in the Geffen Playhouse’s “Love, Loss, and What I Wore.” Currently, Lahti can be seen as Sheryl in CBS’s “Evil.”

David Horn Executive Producer, Great Performances Director for Television, Great Performances – Gloria: A Life Director, Performance & Arts Programming, THIRTEEN Productions LLC Facebook: @GreatPerformances; Twitter: @GPerfPBS

As the executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series Great Performances, David Horn oversees the development, production and programming of WNET’s national performing arts presentations on PBS. During his 39-year tenure with the series, Horn has twice received the prestigious Peabody Award and has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy more than 25 times, winning five. In 2015, he was honored with The Drama League’s Unique Contribution to the Theater Award for his vital work in bringing New York theater to a larger audience across America. In addition to Great Performances, Horn is the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series NYC-Arts, a weekly magazine program hosted by Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn that features the dynamic arts and culture scene in . Horn is also the creator, executive producer and director of Theater Close-Up, a series dedicated to showcasing the innovative productions of New York City’s Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theaters. Horn has also directed several productions in a new collaboration between WNET and the subscription streaming service BroadwayHD, including the historic first live stream of the Broadway musical She Loves Me, followed by Noël Coward’s Present Laughter, starring , Paula Vogel’s critically acclaimed play Indecent and ’s Holiday Inn. After his successful productions of King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth, all of which were recognized with Best Actor Emmy nominations for Sir Ian McKellen, Kevin Kline and Sir Patrick Stewart, respectively, Horn continued his commitment to incorporate Shakespeare into the Great Performances repertoire. In 2015, Horn served as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes and Gareth Naeme for the series The Hollow Crown. Produced as film adaptations of Shakespeare’s history plays, The Hollow Crown featured , Tom Hiddleston and Ben Whishaw, and was followed by The Wars of the Roses, starring Tom Sturridge as Henry VI, as Richard III and an all- star cast, including Sophie Okonedo, Judi Dench and . In summer 2019, he directed the first Great Performances live recording from The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in Park since 1974, Kenny Leon’s modern production of Much Ado About Nothing, featuring an all-black cast, including Danielle Brooks. Horn’s extensive catalog of original productions includes creating In the Spotlight (1993), a series of primetime popular music specials, and executive producing Sessions at West 54th; he was honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for both in recognition of excellence in music broadcast programming. He was also the executive producer of two landmark miniseries for PBS: Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America in 2009 and Broadway: The American Musical, which garnered the Primetime Emmy for Non-Fiction Series in 2005. Horn has produced numerous classical music concerts from Carnegie Hall, as well as internationally in Vienna, Salzburg, Rome and Paris. He has also played an instrumental role in producing a variety of regional operas, many of them world premieres, in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston, where he won an Emmy for John Adams’ Nixon in China. Horn’s multi-camera directing credits for Great Performances include the recent Bernstein Centennial from Tanglewood, four GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends specials, the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell in Concert, Great Performances 40th Anniversary Celebration, multiple Andrea Bocelli concerts including his Central Park event, Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG, Chess in Concert, Hitman: David Foster & Friends, We Love Ella!: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song, South Pacific at Carnegie Hall, Michael Bublé: Caught in the Act, Josh Groban Live at the Greek and many others. From 1981 to 1983, Horn produced the series In Performance at the White House.

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PBS Winter 2020 Press Tour Panel Biographies

Asian Americans Premieres May 2020 on PBS (check local listings)

Hari Kondabolu, series

Hari Kondabolu is a comedian, writer & podcaster based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has been described by The New York Times as “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.” In 2018, his Netflix special Warn Your Relatives was released, and he was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Comics To Watch. Hari has released two comedy , “Waiting for 2042” and “Mainstream American Comic,” with the legendary indie rock label Kill Rock Stars. He has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, ’s NY Stand-Up Show, @Midnight and has his own half-hour special on . He is a former writer & correspondent on the Chris Rock produced FX TV show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In 2017, he released his critically acclaimed documentary The Problem with Apu on truTV. Hari is a regular on the public radio gameshow “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me.” Hari has also appeared on such notable radio shows and podcasts as “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,”” WTF with Marc Maron,” ‘2 Dope Queens,” “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” “A Prairie Home Companion,” “Wits,” “Studio 360,’ and “Bullseye.” He co-hosted the popular “Politically Reactive” podcast with W. Kamau Bell and currently co-hosts “The Kondabolu Brothers Podcast” with his brother Ashok on Earwolf. Hari attended both Bowdoin College and Wesleyan University, graduating from the former institution with a B.A. in Comparative Politics in 2004. A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle, Hari also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008. He was NYU’s APA Institute’s “Artist in Residence” for the 2014-2015 academic year. Hari was born and raised in Queens, N.Y. He went to Townsend Harris High School, and the school’s mascot, “Hari the Hawk,” was named after him during his senior year. (He sometimes fears that his greatest achievement.)

Grace Lee, producer/director

Grace is an independent producer, director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, which The Hollywood Reporter called “an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film won six audience awards before the broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary The Grace Lee Project on the Sundance Channel also won multiple awards. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: Women In Politics and Off The Menu: Asian America, both for PBS. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase, and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc). She is also a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is currently a producer/director on the five-part landmark PBS series Asian Americans as well as And She Could Be Next, a new documentary project about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement.

Renee Tajima-Peña, producer

Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose work focuses on communities of color, immigration, gender, and social justice. Her previous films include Who Killed Vincent Chin?, MY AMERICA...or Honk if You Love Buddha, Labor Women, The New Americans: Mexico Story, Calavera Highway and No Más Bebés. She also directs the multi-media Minecraft-based interactive teaching project, Building History 3.0. Her films have screened at the Cannes, Hong Kong, New Directors/New Films, SXSW, Sundance and Toronto international film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, USA Broad Fellowship, Alpert Award in the Arts for Film/Video, a Peabody and a duPont- Columbia Award. Tajima-Peña teaches social documentary at UCLA, where she is a professor of Asian American Studies, the director of the Center for EthnoCommunications and holds an endowed chair in Japanese American Studies. She was the founding faculty of the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Program in Social Documentation and the inaugural Filmmaker-in-Residence of the International Documentary Association. Tajima-Peña has a long history of media and community and student activism.

Tamlyn Tomita, actress and series narrator

Tamlyn Tomita is an Okinawan/Japanese/Filipina- American actress. She made her screen debut in The Karate Kid Part II and has appeared in leading and supporting roles in the films , The Joy Luck Club, Picture Bride, and Four Rooms. She can currently be seen as Allegra Aoki in ABC's The Good Doctor. Tamlyn has played in independent films and other foreign and Hollywood productions such as The Day After Tomorrow, The Eye, Tekken, the Brazilian drama Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am, Robot Stories, Only the Brave, Real Artists, The Ningyo, First World Problems, The Unbidden, Daddy and Operation: Marriage. Over her career, Tamlyn has also appeared in several TV productions including: Quantum Leap; Living Single; Highlander; Murder, She Wrote; Chicago Hope, Will & Grace, , Strong Medicine, , Women's Murder Club; ; Private Practice; Zoo; CSI: Miami; Touch; ; NCIS: Los Angeles; Bones; and Counterpart, among other dramas and comedies. She has also appeared in recurring roles on the soap operas Santa Barbara, and . She has had recurring roles on shows including: , 24, Eureka, Heroes, Glee, Resurrection, Chasing Life, , How to Get Away with Murder, and most recently, Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. A series regular appearing on the ; and the drama series Berlin Station, Tamlyn will be seen in two yet-to-be announced series in winter/spring 2020.

EXPEDITION WITH TCA Winter 2020 Panelist Bios

Steve Backshall, host and explorer One of television’s busiest presenters, BAFTA Award-winning wildlife expert Steve Backshall has been passionate about the wild world ever since he could crawl. Steve is hugely popular with young television audiences, who are both terrified and delighted to watch his encounters with extraordinary and inspiring predators. Steve is an old-fashioned action hero whose leisure pursuits include mountaineering, kayaking, scuba diving, martial arts and endurance running, which, together with his unsurpassed wildlife knowledge, make him a compelling and motivational speaker for a multitude of audiences.

Steve's most recent credits include “Wild Alaska Live” (BBC One, PBS), “Hedgehog A&E” (Channel 5), “Down The Mighty River with Steve Backshall” (BBC Two), “Extreme Mountain Challenge” (BBC Two), “Fierce” (ITV), “Big Blue Live” (BBC One, PBS) live from Monterey, California, and “Strictly Come Dancing” (BBC One). Steve also fronts the CBBC series, travelling the world to film “Deadly Pole to Pole,” “Deadly 60,” “Live and Deadly,” “Deadly 360,” “Deadly on a Mission,” and most recently, “Backshall’s Deadly Adventures.” Other credits include “Lost ” (BBC One), “Lost Land of the Volcano” (BBC One), “” (BBC One), “Expedition Borneo” (BBC One), “Expedition Alaska” (Discovery), “Britain’s Lost World,” “Extreme Caving,” “Inside Out,” “The One Show,” “” and “.”

In 2011, Steve was recognized with a BAFTA Award for The Best Children’s Television Presenter for his work on “Deadly 60,” as well as the series itself being honored with a BAFTA for The Best Factual Series. Steve was also an on-air correspondent for the PBS and BBC co-production BIG BLUE LIVE, which won the BAFTA for a Live Event in 2016.

Steve is also a prolific author, having published 13 books, and is a proud ambassador for The Scouts and the Get Outside champion for Ordinance Survey.

Bill Margol, Senior Director, General Audience Programming & Development, PBS Bill Margol has spent over 30 years working in the media industry, covering the ground of writer, producer, editor, developer and executive. A graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Loyola University’s Masters in Emerging Media program, Bill was Executive Producer of Special Projects at Sci-Fi Channel, overseeing specials, documentaries, stunts and events from 1993-1998. He joined TNT in Atlanta as Director of Production in 1998, and in 2003, joined Travel Channel as VP of Production, where he was responsible for the launch of such groundbreaking series as “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.” In 2008, Bill joined National Geographic Television as VP Development, where he created the Emmy-nominated series "Brain Games.”

In 2014, Bill joined PBS as Sr. Director of Programming & Development, and has overseen such programs as the Emmy-winning documentary A YEAR IN SPACE, the groundbreaking series WE’LL MEET AGAIN WITH ANN CURRY, as well as programming such as 8 DAYS: TO THE MOON AND BACK, BIG BLUE LIVE, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, LIFE FROM ABOVE, BEYOND A YEAR IN SPACE, GENIUS: WITH STEPHEN HAWKING and WILD ALASKA LIVE.

WINTER 2020 TCA ONE CHILD NATION Panelist Bios

Lois Vossen Series Executive Producer

Lois Vossen is the founding Executive Producer for the PBS primetime series INDEPENDENT LENS. Vossen is responsible for commissioning new films, programming the series and working with filmmakers on editorial and broadcast issues. INDEPENDENT LENS films have received over 20 Emmy Awards, 16 George Foster Peabody Awards, five Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards and eight Academy Award nominations. The series was honored in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 with the International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for Best Curated Series.

Nanfu Wang Director/Producer Cinematographer/Editor

Nanfu Wang is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Wang’s feature debut, Hooligan Sparrow, was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Since its premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, it has won over 20 awards internationally including a Peabody Award, a Cinema Eye Honor award, the George Polk Award, an IDA Documentary Award, and an Independent Spirit Award. Her second feature documentary, I Am Another You, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2017 where it won two special jury awards, opened theatrically in September 2017, and premiered on INDEPENDENT LENS in 2018.

Brian Stuy Co-Founder of Research-China/Film Subject

Brian Stuy is the owner and founder of Research-China. He and his wife Long Lan have three daughters from China: Meikina from DianBai, Meigon from Guangzhou, and Meilan from Luoyang. After discovering that documentation for one of their adopted children was fake, Brian and his wife created the organization with the mission of reuniting adopted children with their families in China through DNA testing. Brian has been actively involved in FCC (Families with Children from China) for a number of years and has served as president of the chapter. Additionally, he has had numerous articles regarding adoption research appear in Adoption Today Magazine and various FCC publications.

Aside from the research on China adoptions he began in 2001, Brian has extensive experience in research. His study of Utah Mormon history has been published in such journals as Dialogue, Sunstone, and Journal of Mormon History. He has had articles published in several anthologies, and his five-volume work on Mormon history from 1886-1898 has seen multiple reprints and is frequently used as source material by Utah historians and writers.

Longlan Stuy Co-Founder of Research-China/Film Subject

Long Lan Stuy is Research-China's in-country guide and translator. She has worked with Brian Stuy since the inception of the organization, and previously owned "Long Lan's Place" on Shamian Island from 1996 until her marriage to Brian. She shares her vast knowledge and love of her home country with each family who works with Research-China, and is passionate about assisting the children who remain in China's orphanages.

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American Masters — Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Premieres nationwide Tuesday, February 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/milesdavis and the PBS Video app in honor of Black History Month

TCA Panelist Bios

Stanley Nelson Director and producer, — Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool @StanleyNelson1

Stanley Nelson is one of the foremost chroniclers of the African American experience working in nonfiction film today. His films, many of which have aired on PBS, combine compelling narratives with deeply researched historical detail, shining new light on both familiar and under- explored aspects of the American past. Nelson, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, has received numerous honors over the course of his career, including five Primetime Emmy Awards and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences, the Emmys, the Peabodys and IDA. In 2013, Nelson received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. His latest film, the Grammy-nominated American Masters — Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2019. Past films include Boss: The Black Experience in Business; Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and

Universities and NAACP Image Award-winning The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, both for Independent Lens; three-time Emmy Award winner Freedom Riders and Peabody Award winner Freedom Summer. In 2000, Nelson, along with his wife, Marcia A. Smith, founded Firelight Media, a nonprofit production company dedicated to using historical film to advance contemporary social justice causes, and to mentoring, inspiring and training a new generation of diverse young filmmakers committed to telling underrepresented stories.

Erin Davis Son of Miles Davis @erindavisMDP

Erin Davis, son of late jazz icon Miles Davis, is a Los Angeles-based musician, producer and composer who runs Miles Davis Properties, LLC along with his sister Cheryl Davis and cousin Vince Wilburn. He also toured and recorded with Miles Davis. He is a regular participant on industry panels, including at the GRAMMY Museum and SXSW; he partnered with Apple for their “Meet The Musicians” series; and he is co-host of the annual Miles Davis House event at SXSW with Wilburn. Additionally, he is an executive producer for Miles Davis Properties, LLC on the GRAMMY-nominated documentary American Masters – Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool and was a producer on the feature film “Miles Ahead” starring Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor. His credits include producing the original music for the Richard Pryor documentary “Omit the Logic,” which won a NAACP Award for Best Documentary; “Caught in the Cross Fire” starring 50 Cent; and others. Previously, Davis was a drummer for the EMI Records recording group Bloodline, an all-star rock group featuring the offspring of famous musicians, including GRAMMY-nominated blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa.

Vince Wilburn Nephew of Miles Davis @NefofMiles

Vince Wilburn, nephew of late jazz icon Miles Davis, oversees Miles Davis Properties, LLC, along with Erin Davis (son of Davis) and Cheryl Davis (daughter of Davis). Wilburn is a highly accomplished drummer, bandleader, producer and radio host, who both toured and recorded with Miles Davis on many legendary recordings from 1984 through 1987, including the GRAMMY Award-winning “AURA,” which he co-produced; “Decoy,” which he also co- produced; “You’re Under Arrest;” and the 2008 GRAMMY-nominated “Miles From India,” which hit No. 8 on the Billboard jazz charts. Wilburn also toured internationally with the All-Star “Miles From India” ensemble to sold-out crowds. He is bandleader and drummer for Miles Electric Band, performing to sold-out crowds both domestically and internationally. Wilburn was influential in putting together the record-breaking release “Everything Is Beautiful” — a reimagined project produced by that charted at No. 1 for Jazz, No. 10 for Hip Hop and No. 5 for Top Current R&B. He is an executive producer for Miles Davis Properties, LLC on the GRAMMY-nominated documentary American Masters – Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool and was a producer on the feature film “Miles Ahead.”

Marcus Miller Bassist and Miles Davis collaborator @MarcusMiller959

Marcus Miller has been a force in the music industry for over 40 years. He has composed classics for Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross and David Sanborn, to name a few. Miller’s relationship with Miles Davis began at the age of 21 when he became a member of Davis’ 1981 comeback band following Davis’ five-year hiatus. Within a few years, Miller became a crucial influence in Davis’ career, composing, producing and arranging three albums that helped define the sound of Davis’ final era, including the album “Tutu.” The title piece, written for Bishop Desmond Tutu, is often described as one of the most significant contributions to the contemporary jazz canon. Miller is an UNESCO Artist for Peace and spokesperson for the Slave Routes Project, work that inspired his GRAMMY-nominated release “,” followed by “,” also nominated for a GRAMMY in 2018. Miller is also a film composer, tours worldwide and has been the host of “Miller Time” on SiriusXM radio for nearly a decade.

Michael Kantor American Masters Executive Producer @MKantorfilm

Michael Kantor joined American Masters as the series’ executive producer in April 2014 and founded its theatrical imprint, American Masters Pictures, in January 2016. American Masters Pictures premiered three films at Sundance Film Festival in 2019: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am; other Sundance premieres include Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (Peabody Award) and Richard Linklater – Dream is Destiny. Recent programs include Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Itzhak and Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage. An Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, Kantor’s PBS series include Broadway: The American Musical (hosted by ), Make ‘Em Laugh (hosted by ) and Superheroes (hosted by Liev Schreiber), and he co-wrote the companion books for each series. He served as executive producer of Give Me the Banjo with Steve Martin and distributes the American Film Theatre series, including Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, starring Katharine Hepburn, and Chekhov’s Three Sisters with Laurence Olivier. Kantor serves as a Tony nominator and oversees the American Masters Podcast.

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