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 About the Producer/Author |
 Two-time
Emmy and three-time Telly Award winning producer Maryann Byrd wrote, directed, and produced The Rise of the Southern Biscuit. Based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Maryann works independently under her own company Byrdword Productions. It took hundreds of miles of travel and 35 hours of video tape to capture the interesting characters and tantalizing biscuits featured in The Rise of the Southern Biscuit.
The
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Telly Awards
for Film and Television awarded Maryann and her company, Byrdword
Productions, a total of five top honors for Program Writing, Best
Cultural Documentary, Best Use of Music, Best Cultural Program, and
Outstanding Documentary for The Rise of the Southern Biscuit.
Maryann also authored The Biscuit Dive Guide by interviewing biscuit makers throughout the South who agreed to share their biscuit recipes and biscuit making advice. |
| Maryann is a degreed journalist with a background in broadcast television. She enjoys researching, writing, and directing projects especially for PBS. Maryann received an Emmy nomination for her last PBS documentary, Carousel of Time, and was given a National Educational Telecommunications Association award for her local PBS series on Death and Dying. As a former news reporter/anchor, Byrd has won awards from the Associated Press and multiple Emmy nominations for her news, features, and series reporting. |
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