Richard Wormser

  Richard Wormser has written, produced and/or directed over 70 programs for television, foundations, educational institutions, and government. He originated, was series producer, co-directed and co-wrote, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, the story of the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation 1880-1954. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow received national acclaim and has won the prestigious Peabody Award for excellence in television programming, three national Emmy nominations, the International Documentary Association Best Series award, Cine Gold Eagle and the Chris Award.

Wormser has also written, produced, and directed:

• The Emmy nominated PBS documentary Delta Dreams, the story of a dying community in the Arkansas Delta struggling to get back on its feet. The program also received the national NETA award documentary and journalism award.
• Hubert’s World, a film about an extraordinary mentally and physically disabled man determined to live a normal life.
  
• Rethinking Cancer, a 60 minute documentary on non-toxic ways to treat cancer for the Foundation for the Advance of Cancer Therapy (FACT).
• The Road to Removal for the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation on the forced Cherokee removal from Arkansas and the South in the 1820s and 1830s.
  
• Lives in the Balance, a documentary that followed four, very bright, at-risk school children through middle school.
  

  He is presently collaborating with Gilles Carter in writing and co-producing Independence: The Native American Struggle for Freedom during the American Revolution and The Road To Civil War: From Union to Disunion.

Other television credits include: Islam's West (WNET); The Global Workshop (WNET); Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow (Coronet/MTI); The Fighting Ministers (PBS); Death for a Juvenile? (MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour); The Other Side of Victory (NEH/PBS); Up From The Ashes, (3-2-1 Contact), Joseph (HBO); Landscapes of Hope (PBS), Sesame Street (WNET); Other People, Other Places, (ABC); The Ultimate Machine (WNET).

GRANTS

  Wormser has received numerous grants for a variety of television projects including: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, a four-part television series on the African American Struggle for Freedom 1865-1954; Independence, The Other American Revolution: The Road To Civil War, a three part PBS television series on America during the ante-bellum years (1789-1861); The Road To Removal: The Story of the Cherokees removal west of the Mississippi 1800-1840.

FUNDERS

  The National Endowment for the Humanities.
  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
  Native American Public Telecommunications.
  The National Endowment for the Arts
  The Writers' Guild of America.
  PBS and the Amax Foundation.

Wormser is an award-winning author and photographer of young adult non-fiction.

  The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
  Three Faces of Vietnam
  To the Young Filmmaker
  Wandering.
  The History of Hoboes and Tramps in America
  Growing Up in the Great Depression
  Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow
  Allen Pinkerton: America's Private Eye and American Islam

His books have won numerous prizes including the Carter G. Woodson Honor Book award.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

  University of New Haven
  The New School University in New York City
  The University of Bridgeport

GUEST LECTURES

  NYU
  SUNY Albany
  The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville