PRODUCER BIOGRAPHIES
John Howe
John Howe is the KUED/PBS Executive Producer and one of public broadcasting’s accomplished executive producers/directors/writers. His most current projects are the national PBS project Red Rock Serenade for PBS Pledge for summer 2014 and Return of the Wolves: the Next Chapter (narrated by Peter Coyote) for national PBS in January 2014.
Five Rivers, Five Voices, about five great rivers of the American West (narrated by Peter Coyote), was nationally distributed to PBS stations and features the Salmon, Yellowstone, Rio Grande, San Juan, and Colorado Rivers.Horses of the West: America’s Love Story, narrated by actress Ali MacGraw, premiered on PBS in March 2012.Grand Canyon Serenade premiered on PBS in the summer of 2011 and features world-class images combined with music from some of the world’s most beloved classical music composers. Wilderness: The Great Debate featuring Robert Redford and narrated by actor Peter Coyote premiered recently on PBS and PBS World.
Recent projects include Wallace Stegner, a biographical film portrait of the environmental and literary icon for PBS primetime,and The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo for PBS HD about the forced march of the Navajo exiled to a barren reservation. Both are narrated by actor Peter Coyote.Desert Wars: Water and the West, airing nationally on PBS and PBS HD, explores the fight for water between rural ranchers and Las Vegas.Wild River: The Colorado (primetime PBS, PBS HD, and PBS Home Video) traces the Colorado River from its headwaters to its demise in the burning sands of Mexico. Both films are narrated by actor Joseph Campanella.
Other recent projects are the national PBS and Netflix ( film, Butch Cassidy and The Outlaw Trail, narrated by actor/Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook; the PBS HD Channel's Utah: The National Parks; the PBS film Artists of the West, a portrait of Charles Russell, Frederic Remington, and Thomas Moran; andthe national primetime PBS film, The Snow Wolves, about endangered wolves of the arctic and the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park.John Howe is the Executive Producer of PBS’s highest rated holiday performance series, Christmas with The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, featuring such guest artists as Natalie Cole, David McCullough, Reneé Fleming, Tom Brokaw, and Alfie Boe from Les Miserables.
Carol Dalrymple has helped to create and deliver numerous award-winning PBS documentaries and programs.She has been recognized with multiple awards as producer/director and for Individual Achievements in Craft (Editing, Graphics, and Audio) from the Emmy Awards, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Rocky Mountain Region; the Houston International Film Festival; the Society of Professional Journalists; the Utah Broadcasters Association; and by the Utah Department of Community and Culture, and the Utah Division of Indian Affairs.
She has worked with John Howe on many of his films, including Horses of the West: America’s Love Story (narrated by Ali MacGraw); The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo; Five River, Five Voices; Wilderness: The Great Debate; and Wallace Stegner (all narrated by Peter Coyote);Desert Wars: Water and the West; Wild River: The Colorado; and Utah: The National Parks (all narrated by Joseph Campanella).
Carol Dalrymple and John Howe’s 2011 co-production Grand Canyon Serenade has been seen by an estimated 200 million viewers and continues to be a source of viewer-supported programming for PBS stations across the nation.
She has contributed, in various capacities, to KUED productions that have been broadcast nationally on PBS including: Maynard Dixon: To the Desert Again and No Safe Place: Violence Against Women.