Tom Casciato is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and film & television executive. A director, writer and producer, he has created critically acclaimed nonfiction television programs that have appeared on PBS, ABC, NBC, TBS and Showtime. Along with directing Two American Families 1991-2024 with Kathleen Hughes, he is a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, specializing in profiles of musicians and their work. In 2023 he was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, producing and hosting the Thousand Roads podcast series, in which he interviewed fellow doc filmmakers about the intersection of documentary film and journalism. He directed and produced pieces featuring Don Cheadle and Ian Somerhalder for the second season of National Geographic’s award-winning climate-change series, Years Of Living Dangerously. Tom has worked at WNET for several stints, serving variously as Director of News & Current Affairs and Executive Producer of two PBS series, Wide Angle and the Emmy Award-winning Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports. At WNET he was also the Senior Producer of PBS NewsHour Weekend. His work has received numerous awards including two national Emmys, a New York Emmy, the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, the Peabody Award, the Dateline Club’s Society of Professional Journalists’ First Amendment Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, the Christopher Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award.