2023 Sports Emmys: NBC Olympics’ Molly Solomon on Telling Athletes’ Stories, Overcoming Obstacles to Win Outstanding Live Special
NBC Sports' was honored with Outstanding Live Special on Monday night
Story Highlights
From a production perspective, the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Live Special is the biggest honor of the night. Many noteworthy productions were nominated, but NBC Sports’ presentation of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics came out on top.
At the ceremony, NBC Olympics’ Executive Producer Molly Solomon explains the logistical and operational hurdles that needed to be navigated in order to produce a successful event and how the network continues to come up with fresh ideas every two to four years.
Those credited on the project included:
Executive Producer
Peter Bevacqua, Molly Solomon
Coordinating Producers
Rebecca Chatman, Richard Cordella, Joe Gesue, Robert Hyland, Mark Lazarus, Mark Levy, Brian Orentreich, James Thompson
Senior Producers
John Barnes, Mark Bellotti, Marissa Boyajian, Ryan Burke, Kelly Campbell, Thomas Davidson, John Felling, Daniel Fleschner, Sam Flood, David Gabel, Joe Gallin, John Gilmartin, Brian Gilmore, Stephen Greenberg, David Grindley, Lee Ann Gschwind, Vivian Kim, William Kunz, Matthew Marvin, William Matthews Jr., Daniel McColl, John McGuinness, Kaare Numme Iii, Phil Parrish, David Patterson, David Picker, Jaime Sasso, Tracy Snyder, Ron Vaccaro, Gary Zenkel
Producers
Michelle Acevedo, Chris Alexopoulos, Paul Aspan, Todd Benjaminson, Shane Bishop, Matthew Boline, Charles Bottitta Jr., Wallace Bruckner, Kerry Byrnes, Tim Canary, James Carr, Brett Castelluccio, Darren Chiappetta, Michelle Cho, Aaron Cohen, Liz Collins, Mark Condron, Nancy Devaney, Richard Diamond, Shanshan Dong, Robert Dustin, William Ebersol, Duane Evans, Yiannis Exarchos, Aaron Feldstein, Joel Felicio, Joshua Freedenberg, Neil Gallow, Rene Hatlelid, Darryl Jefferson, Scott Karpen, Scott Keith, Kristen King, Colleen Kragh, Susan La Salla, Terri Leopold, Steven Louie, Christopher Maguire, Brittany Mania, Alexa Maremaa, Agata Michalak, Jaime Necrason, Elyse Noonan, Richard O’Connor, William O’Reilly, Atila Ozkaplan, Nicholas Pace, Diane Penny, Alexa Pritting, Stephanie Purcell, Xavier Rangel, Tom Roche, Lauren Ruderman, Susan Saladino, Olivia Santini, Lindsay Schanzer, Michael Shames, Lana Sherman, Lyndsay Signor, Donald Slouffman, Kevin Soldani, Peter Steep, Daniel Steir, Jennifer Storms, Shane Swinnerton, Gino Tanasescu, Jennie Thompson, Kaitlin Urka, Patricia Vega, David Wilke, Amy Zimmerman
Videotape Producers
Alex Budish, Cynthia Castanares, Drew Devine, Marissa Havens, Maeve Kelly, Kenneth Pivor, Carly Santiago, Andrew Schutzman, Paige Shepperly, Michelle West
Feature Producers
Tina Cerbone, Jennifer Chiogioji, Scott Cohen, Stacy Gitlin, Rachel Goodman, Paul Hawkins, Whitney Loehr, Justin Masse, Valentine Moossa, Stephen Palgon, Max Rahamin, Rahul Rohatgi, Alexandra Shaule, Kathryn Walsh, Laurie White, Elinore Wright
Field Producers
Kate Anderson, Savannah Brotherton, Claire Brown, Joanne Deherrera, Jeffrey Fabian, Robert Kistner Iii, Gregory Magruder, Christene Martin, Billy Rapaport, Margaret Ryan, Mason Seay, Robin Sherman, Jackie Smith, Devan Valoroso
Highlight Producers
William Boland, Jean Casimir, Julie Frahm, Eric Hamilton
Coordinating Director
Michael Sheehan
Senior Director
Glenn Morris
Directors
Kelly Atkinson Jr., Corey T Boudreau, Charles Dammeyer, Elizabeth Donovan, Douglas Grabert, Scott Katz, Susan King, Robert Lanning, Steven Lawrence, Terry Lingner, Joseph Martin, Jennifer Morrison, Timothy Nelson, Sean Owens, Sean Page, James Pritting, Michael Torello
Associate Producers
Amelia Acosta, Alexis Aurigemma, Marina Ayuso, Victoria Balarezo, Colin Bane, Joseph Bartozzi, Evan Baughman, Gabriella Beltrami, Eleanor Bering, Will Bjarnar, Alex Boccard, Lauren Boone, Benjamin Bouma, Nicholas Bruce, Robert Calamari, Hallie Carmen, Hannah Caso, James Castelluccio, Daniel Charlip, Lisa Chisholm, Michael Cloonan, Julia Clukey, Alexis Coble, David Cook, Miles Coplin, Carolyn Costa, John Coyle, Harvey Creasey, Daniel Cuthbert, Lauren De La Rosa, Caroline Delfin, Anthony Devita, Rachel Dibartolo, Adam Discko, Andrew Dougherty, Monica Downer, Benjamin Drabik, Christopher Dupre, Arthur Durazo, Michelle Ellis, Elizabeth Eng, Patricia Ennis, Brian Fahey, Micki Fahner, Lauren Fein, Adam Feldfogel, Patricia Fiske, Robert Fitzgerald, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Matthew Ford, Josh Fowler, Quinn Frankel, Evan Frondorf, Daniel Fumano, John Furlong, Nicole Gaddie, James Gallagher, John Gallagher, Kelly Garcia, Alexander Ginnis, Brandon Glass, Daryel Gonzalez, Philip Guidry, Frederick Haas, Brian Halligan, Casey Halpern, Megan Hart, Paul Herlihey, Courtney Holt, Jedidiah Hopkins, Cindy Hsieh, Matthew Hubbard, Sarah Hughes, Catherine Hunt, Michelle Hurni, John Jarrett, Madison Jones, Michael Kaas, Elliott Kalb, Bryce Kerr, Charles Kiernan, Carol Ko, Kellie Krake, Meghan Kuebler, Phil Lavanco, Larry Lazo, Patrick Leemann, Euan Leith, Kyle Levasseur, Jay Levin, Alex Levine, Andrew Lief, Charrissa Lin, Tyler Loiselle, Grant Lokken, Abigail Lorge, Alex Loschiavo, Kyle Lynch, Scott Lyons, Michael Macesich, Paul Marmaro, Leslie Mazvinsky, Matthew McCollough, Kiara McIver, Alex Metzman, Kirk Meyer, Eric Mirlis, Kat Misko, Deanne Mollema, Erin Moskalczak, David Mueller, Katherine Munro, Stacey Nash, Fallon Oeser, Sean O’Gara, Nicholas Olczyk, Alex Olsen, Olivia Ormond, Sara Oromchi, Patrick O’Rourke, Maria Pagano, Jeff Paris, Jessica Parratto, James Patton, Glenn Petraitis, Caroline Pineda, Jim Piscitelli, Marvin Pittman, Barbara Poskanzer, Jonathan Quartuccio, Daniel Radov, Ana Ramos, Matt Ramundo, Marisa Rauwald, Brian Reilly, Harrison Root, Matt Rosenfeld, Andrew Ross, Adam Rozwadowski, Amy Sabreen, Matthew Salvatore, Brittany Santiago, Megan Sarnacki, Brian Satterfield, Elizabeth Saxon, Michael Schanzer, Mitchell Scherr, Phil Servello, Seth Shore, Miki Singh, Marco Smits, Zoe Sobel, Megan Soisson, Michael Soroky, Julie Stocker, Andrew Stopera, Barbara Strain, Andrew Suarez, Neil Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Derek Surka, Neil Suto, William Swenson, Tamer Tartir, David Teodosia, Sydney Thayer, Krystle Thompson, Rachel Thompson, Martin Thorstensson, Benjamin Tom, Christian Trinidad, Sam Tydings, John Walters, Bradley Washilition, Thomas Wehrle, Douglas Weinstein, Nina Weiss, Joshua Whidden, Akiva Wienerkur, Greer Wilson, Michael Wisniewski, Benjamin Wolf, Chris Yip
Operations Producers
Blaire Burns, Mingson Burns, Ian Dawes-Kuchta, Marsha Edscorn-Bird, David Mazza, Ryan Soucy, Molly Zampano Kuchta, Charlotte Zoller
Associate Directors
Lucas Altman, Brigette Boginis, Erin Bollendorf, Jeffrey Burriesci, Andrew Cavanaugh, John Coleman, Emily Conboy, Greg Costa, Lea Darley, Christopher Demaio, Janine Devito, Richard Ellis, Christopher Gray, Mitch Green, Kerry Jackson, Marla Keethler, Diana MacLeod, Daniel Masi, Catherine Newman, Laura Ouziel Mack, Chad Perry, Doug Safchik, Caroline Sayer, Elisabeth Sobel, Stacy Toy, Dominick Tringali, Wayne Wilson, Brian Zwolinski
Editors
Erik Anderson, Sosse Arduino, Trevor Aylward, Thomas Bartos, Brett Blau, Brice Bowman, David Bragg, Arnold Branch, Brad Buckwalter, Sean Campbell, Kevin Carcich, Anthony Carvahlo, Keith Chirgwin, Ray Conley, Thomas Costello, David De La Parra, Paul Devlin, Stephen Digirolamo, Tres Driscoll, Matt Epstein, Jeff Fisher, Billy Gardner, Bob Gassel, Brian Gauthier, Josh Glaser, Craig Gordon, Emad Hashim, Mike Iacovino, Brandon Jennings, Michael Johansen, Cameron Kim, Attila Kirjak, Brandon Klein, Kenneth Lambert, Brian Lockwood, Brian Longenecker, Scott Lozea, Aaron Macof, Dave Madden, Philip Magnotti, Sosse Misserlian, Will Moss, Shayne Murphy, Michael Oliver, Erik Paulsen, Bruno Pellegrini, Victor Perez, Natalie Posey, John Rizzo, Corey Sadler, Raphael Seth, Lamont Smith, Gregg Stouffer, Howard Tate, Ryan Theisen, James Twomey, Scott Visavachaipan, Mark Weinstein, Matthew West, Matt Wilson, Karl Woitach, Ryan Yeager, Adam Zeitlin
Stage Managers
Alexzandra Andrews-Jameau, Jodi Bacon, Todd Bivona, Kenneth Corbin, Cynthia Jacobsen, Allen Neugent, Kameron O’Brien, Christine Reilly, Russ Relkin
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