Sharon Dymmel

Three-time Emmy Award-winner Sharon Dymmel has written and produced television shows, feature film scripts, commercials, and independent documentary projects of outstanding quality since 1995. Among her many achievements Sharon has worked on several television series for PBS-three of which have been recognized with Emmy Awards. She also acted as Head Writer and Story Editor for the Emmy-nominated biography series entitled More Than the Music (hosted by country music legend Charlie Daniels). In the early 2000's, Sharon penned more than a dozen scripts for the Telly Award-winning PAX-TV series Encounters with the Unexplained (hosted by Jerry Orbach of Law & Order fame). She has written a number of one-hour television specials/DVD releases including Portrait of Courage: The Untold Story of Flight 93; Heroes Among Us (which details September 11th survivor stories), and George W. Bush: Faith in the White House-which Frank Rich of the New York Times called "the one must-see" DVD of the 2004 election season. She was named Story Editor at Grizzly Adams Productions in 2010 and was responsible for developing a slate of television and film projects for the company as well as overseeing and nurturing a stable of writers. In 2011 she was the co-producer for the documentary feature Tanzania: A Journey Within which received numerous awards including the prize for Best Documentary at the 2011 Soho International Film Festival and opened in American theaters in April 2014. After taking a hiatus to care for her family, she returned to television as a producer for the nationally syndicated PBS travel series Samantha Brown's Places to Love which received the 2019 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Travel and Adventure Program. Sharon lives in Southern California with her amazing husband of 24 years, her teenage daughter who is a budding playwright, and her middle-school son who lives to surf and declared himself "pretty much over school" in 4th grade.