Philip J. Marshall
Executive Producer, National Productions, Maryland Public Television
Philip J. Marshall joined Maryland Public Television in 2006 as executive producer, National Productions. He creates, develops, produces and directs, a wide variety of productions for national public television release.
F.S. Key After the Song, Mr. Marshall’s latest project, is the result of nearly six years of research, writing, producing, directing, and editing. The three-part one-hour docu-drama series isbeing released by American Public Television for national broadcast in September. The series is the second half of a documentary he produced in 2014 about Francis Scott Keysearly history and his writing of our national anthem. Key,in this new program, is shown as a constitutional lawyer immersed in the issue of slavery. The film highlights how events of the 1830’s areextraordinarily similar to current political and social issues today.
Most recently, Mr. Marshall served as a producer and director of historical segments for a three-hour national live Great Performancesconcert on PBS – Star-Spangled Spectacular –hosted by John Lithgow and featuring dozens of performers including Kristin Chenoweth, Kenny Rogers, Melissa Etheridge, Smokey Robinson, Train, and Little Big Town,who came together to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the writing of the national anthem.
Prior to that, Mr. Marshall produced and directed a two-hour public television special on Irish music and its development in America called The Music of Ireland. Working with Moya Brennan, lead singer of the Irish super-group Clannad, he interviewed more than 40 top Irish artists and celebrities including Bono, Sinéad O’Connor, and Liam Clancy in his final interview. The film earned an Emmy for best cultural documentary and was voted audience favorite at the Park City Music Festival.
Mr. Marshall is best known in public television for his work on NYTV: By the People Who Made It, a program celebrating and exploring the first 50 years of New York television and its effects on American society. Hosted by Al Roker and Walter Cronkite, the program had more than 60 major celebrity participants. It was nominated for nine Emmy Awards and earned four awards.
Mr. Marshall was the official documentarian of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. He and his MPT crew filmed more than 150 hours of raw footage documenting the entire three-year restoration process the museum undertook from 2007 to 2009. The extensivefilming resulted in a program for the History Channel series Mega-Movers, titledIntrepid: On the Move. Mr. Marshall is also continuing development of a two-hour pubic television special on 40 years of American foreign policy as seen through the missions of the ship and its crew.
Earlier, Mr. Marshall created Concorde Alpha-Delta: An Intrepid Journey, a history of the Concorde aircraft and the story of the final journey of one of the aircraft to the Intrepid Museum.
In dramatic and stage work as a member of “The Players” in New York, Mr. Marshall directed Timothy Hutton, Robert Vaughn, and Barney Martin in a staged reading of Patterns, by Rod Serling. Mr. Marshall also worked with Timothy Hutton on an historical documentary and interactive DVD about “The Players,” a legacy of the 19th century performer Edwin Booth who came from Maryland.
Mr. Marshall started his career in the educational film industry and in 1986, while at Phoenix Films, he developed and was executive in charge of production on a short film titled Molly’s Pilgrim, which earned the Oscar that year for Best Short Subject.
Listed in Lexington’s Who’s Who in Media, Mr. Marshall has extensive experience as an executive producer, senior producer, and film and tape editor, is considered an expert in digital production techniques, and is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA).