Audrey Morrissey ’89 and Chris White ’91 were among recent nominees announced for the 2013 Emmy Awards.
Morrissey has been an executive producer of the popular reality show The Voice since 2011. The show has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. Along with other producers of the hit show, Morrissey was also nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television.
White ’91 has made a name for himself working with documentaries. Vice president of programming and production at POV, a PBS documentary film series, White is part of the team that has received nine Emmy nominations in various categories including Best Documentary, Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form, and Outstanding Science and Technology Programming.
Before joining the POV team, White worked as an associate producer and production office manager on the 2002 award-winning documentary Blue Vinyl. He also produced the children’s program An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance for the Museo Italio-Americano in San Francisco.
Morrissey and White are among the many Colgate alumni who have been nominated for or received an Emmy Award.
While working as a producer for ABC’s Wide World of Sports for nearly fifty years, Douglas Wilson ’57 won seventeen Emmy Awards.
Some recent winners include Joe Berlinger ’83, who received two Emmys for his documentaries Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hillsand Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America. For his work on the television show Murphy Brown, Barnet Kellman ’69 won two Emmys and a Director’s Guild Award.
Kevin Briody ’85 received a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding original song in 2008 for his number “Little Starr,” which aired on ABC’s One Life to Live. His “We All Fall Down” won the best original song Emmy in 2009.
At the time a Colgate senior, Ryan Meyers ’10 received a spot on the productions team of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. His team won an Emmy for Best Live Sports Series in 2010.
Matt Renner ’01, won an Emmy and was nominated several times for his past work as executive-producer of the Discovery Channel top-rated series Deadliest Catch.
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