KATHERINE WEIDER-ROOS

Creative Arts Producer

Contact

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Office: 2003 AA
Phone: (734) 764-7314

Curriculum Vitae

M.A., University of Michigan, 1996
B.A., McGill University, 1992

Biography

In 2005 Katherine Weider was hired by Michigan Public Media and the School of Art & Design to find innovative ways to bring artists at the School to the public broadcast airwaves. The result was the PLAY Project, a unique gallery space for time-based work, now playing on Michigan Television and the Michigan Channel, as well as on the web at playgallery.org.

Before coming to the School, Weider specialized in producing arts programming at PBS. She began her career as a segment producer for Detroit Public Television's weekly show, Backstage Pass, and quickly moved on to become Show Producer, winning a regional EMMY award for her work in 1998. She went on to produce smART TV (Southeast Michigan ART Television), an educational series bringing arts and culture programming to middle school students in Southeast Michigan.

In 2000, she was Writer/Producer for Mahler's Beethoven, a nationally broadcast program featuring the Detroit Symphony, and Co-Producer for the highly acclaimed documentary, Sprawling of America. In 2001, Weider received an EMMY award in the category of Cultural Feature for her piece, "Visionary States and the Artist." In 2002, she produced The Sphinx Competition: Breaking the Sound Barrier, an hour-long documentary about diversity in classical music, as well as a multi-camera production of the 2004 Sphinx Competition both of which were broadcast nationally in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Her last large project before joining the School in 2005 was an independent documentary, In a HeartBEAT: The Story of Mosaic Youth Theatre, co-produced with Michigan Television. The hour long documentary premiered at the Detroit Film Theatre in 2005 and then aired nationally on PBS stations. The program won a regional EMMY for Best Documentary in 2006.

In addition to three regional EMMY awards and ten EMMY nominations for her production work over the years, Weider was awarded a Producers Academy fellowship by PBS and CPB in 2001. She received a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan in 2003. She has won three Telly Awards.

Before her career with PBS, Weider taught production classes in the Film/Video Program at the University of Michigan for two semesters. While at UM, she produced experimental video work in collaboration with composer Duncan Nielson, Mary Simoni and dancer Jason Marchant, among others. Her work, Serial Barbie, was shown at Miller Theatre in New York City in 1997.