Alan Catello Grazioso
Alan Catello Grazioso is an American non-fiction filmmaker, multimedia expert, and online content producer. Grazioso oversaw content production for three PBS Kids television series including "Zoom", "Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman" and "Postcards from Buster", the last of which he was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series. Grazioso's 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. In 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. Grazioso graduated from Northeastern University in Boston. In 2017, he oversaw production of a series of video assets for Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) ManageMentor, a subscriber-based online learning platform for global Fortune 500 companies. Grazioso is a staff member of Harvard Business School (HBS), overseeing production for HBS MBA and executive education programs. At HBS, Grazioso is responsible for the creation of curriculum-focused content and overseas on-location production internationally and domestically in close  partnership with HBS faculty. Background. Grazioso grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Cal Grazioso, was a union crane operator with Local 478 in Connecticut. His mother, Dee Grazioso, worked as an administrator for the Yale School of Medicine for over 25 years. He attended Notre Dame High School 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 took a full-time six-month "co-op" position at NPR in Washington, DC. His other credits include video editor of the video companion of  a 2008 Thompson Learning textbook, as well as producer of the "Resources for Early Learners" public online site created by the WGBH Educational Foundation.