

Suzanne Mitchell has produced numerous television series and specials as well as feature length documentaries. She has won two Emmys, two Gracie Awards and an Omni Intermedia Award.
Suzanne's broadcast career began in New York as the feature producer for Metromedia's 10 O'clock News, where she won her first Emmy for Best Local News Documentary, for the “Tin Pan Alley” celebrating the art of music song writing. Mitchell fell in love with long-form story telling and on-location production during documentary shoots for Lee Iacocca and Ford Motor Corp. in Africa and Europe. Hired by Fox Television to help create their first news magazine show, The Reporters, Suzanne exhibited a flair for obtaining notable exclusive interviews, a talent she tapped effectively as producer for Geraldo from 1989 to 1992.
At Time Warner in 1993 and 1994 she produced two People Magazine network entertainment specials and created programming for Time Warner’s cutting edge Full Service Network, the first fully interactive shopping channel.
In 1996 and 1997 she collaborated with Lovett Productions and Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple to create the ABC special, New Passages. She directed segments for the President’s Summit for America's Future and in 2001 re-teamed with Kopple on the four-hour special, The Hamptons and most recently went on to produce Kopple’s Woodstock Now & Then celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock.
In 1997 and 1998 Mitchell produced two comprehensive historical documentary programs -- ABC's The Century, with Peter Jennings, which included exclusive interviews with nuclear scientist Hans Bethe, Steve Jobs and others; and A&E's The Millennium Biography Special, which focused on 100 of the most influential people of the last 1000 years and included interviews with Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Hillary Clinton, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Mitchell’s lifestyle programming includes directing the Food Network's Two Hot Tamales in Mexico, and producing cooking, home design and gardening segments for the syndicated show, B. Smith with Style in the late 90s.
As supervising producer for HBO in 2000 and 2001, Suzanne managed a multi-million dollar budget for the 13 part docu-drama, G-String Divas.
In 2005 Mitchell Executive Produced Fatal Fathers, a one hour documentary for A&E. She also created six PBS documentaries focused on women’s issues, for which she won two Gracie awards and one Emmy, and documentaries for Discovery, the Sci Fi Channel and the Hallmark Channel.
Suzanne’s experience as an independent producer since 1996 for The Oprah Winfrey Show includes Harpo Productions’ 2008 Martin Luther King special. Other independent producer projects include The Big Idea for CNBC, Isaac with Isaac Mizhrahi for E! Entertainment, I Married Sammy Hagar for VH-1 and Dr. Oz’s Second Opinion.
In 2006, Suzanne was recruited by AT&T to create a new technology and entertainment portal. Here she developed and produced 52 episodes of The Hugh Thompson Show, a variety-talk show dedicated to science and technology aimed at AT&T’s three screen strategy: wireless, PC and ipTV. Mitchell managed production budgets for the show’s multi-level platform advertising model and oversaw 60+ hours of content. In 2008 Mitchell went on to produce and direct behind-the-scenes shorts and webisodes chronicling the making of FX’s acclaimed series, Rescue Me, starring Denis Leary and Damages, starring Glenn Close.
In 2010 Mitchell produced a reality pilot for A&E and produced a series of mini documentaries as part of History’s epic series America The Story of Us. In addition, she is working on her own independent film, Poet on the Prairie, which brings to life the story of Dayton O. Hyde, one of the few remaining real cowboys, and his passion for preserving the way of life in the prairies of the American West.
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