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Shirley Saldamarco

Shirley Saldamarco is the Supervising Producer and a member of the Faculty at the Entertainment Technology Center. Shirley has been at Carnegie Mellon for most of her adult life. In the early ’70s, she was a student in the School of Drama where she studied Theatre Administration. She returned to the School of Drama in 1990 and continues to teach classes in Producing for Television and Film and master class workshops; she has also taught classes in “Creative Enterprises” to students in the Heinz School Master of Entertainment Industry Management Program.

Shirley is President of Interactive Media Productions, the company she founded in 1982, which provides clients with Custom Broadcast and Non-broadcast Video Production, DVD and Intranet Training, Web-casting, Meeting Planning, Staging, Power-point Presentations, Video Walls, Computer Generated Graphics and Animation. As an Independent Producer, her projects include documentaries, public affairs programs, and special programming, which have aired on PBS, network and cable television. “After the Tears,” a program produced for United Mental Health has been screened internationally, winning awards and acclaim in Egypt, Israel and Europe, as well as the United States. She proudly displays a number of awards including an Emmy nomination, Matrix Award in Broadcast News and Documentary, Golden Cine, a Pennsylvania Cable Arts Network Award, an American Psychological Association Award, and several Telly Awards. She has a particular interest in producing quality programming for children ages two to six and produced the pilot, “Charlie’s Sharing Adventure” which has found an audience in daycare organizations and preschools. This same interest landed her the position of Dialogue Director for 52 episodes of “Johnson and Friends,” on the Fox Network. Most recently she produced, “Once Upon a Toon”, a co-venture between the Entertainment Technology Center, cartoonist and storyteller, Joe Wos and Production Masters, Inc.