Alan Catello Grazioso is an American online marketer, filmmaker, and nonfiction television producer, writer, director, and editor. Grazioso served as a content producer for three PBS Kids television series including Postcards from Buster for which he was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series. His notable online video credits include "Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken" a web-based interactive project funded and published by Oxfam America which received a 2016 Webby Award Honoree achievement. On May 12, 2016 The Washington Post ran a two-minute online short film produced by Grazioso for Oxfam's "Lives on the Line" campaign and current affairs website AJ+ ran a separate social media targeted version that went viral and currently has over 6.4 million views on AJ+'s Facebook page. Alan is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston. In 2017 he produced a series of 23 videos for Harvard ManageMentor, a subscriber-based online learning platform for global Fortune 500 companies owned and distributed by Harvard Business Publishing wholly owned non-profit subsidiary of Harvard University. He's currently a full-time staffer at Harvard Business School as an interactive producer creating content in close partnership with HBS faculty and their research teams. Grazioso sits on the advisory boards of several organizations. He regularly consults startups as well as produces projects on-location internationally and domestically.
Background
Alan grew up in and around New Haven, Connecticut in a blue-collar Italian-America family. His father, Catello F. "Cal" Grazioso, has been a union crane operator for the past 55 years with Local 478 in Connecticut. His mother, Delores "Dee" Grazioso, worked as an administrator for the Yale School of Medicine for over 25 years. He attended Notre Dame High School where he played varsity baseball, served as class treasurer and yearbook photographer before graduating in 1987. During Grazioso's Sophomore year at Northeastern University he had the opportunity to undertake a full-time six-month "co-op" position at NPR in Washington, DC. While at NPR Grazioso worked closely with public radio personality Liane Hansen and interacted with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, and Noah Adams for as he recalls "an experience that just rocked my world." His other notable credits include video editor of the video companion of the 2008 Thompson Learning "Interviewing in Action in a Multicultural World" textbook as well as producer of the Massachusetts Department of Early Educational and Care funded "Resources for Early Learners" public online site created by the WGBH Educational Foundation. In 2010, Grazioso's documentary work has been featured on Link TV's ViewChange.org website, a site “to help raise awareness of global development issues" funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Grazioso served as senior editor on the Boston Red Sox 2011 season opening television commercial "We Will Not Rest: Base Runner" which featured Jacoby Ellsbury and premiered in March 2011 on ESPN.
