Emerson Alums Honored with Emmys for Production, Editing, Music
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This story has been edited to include Alyssa Dressman Lehner’s Emmy win.
Emerson alums picked up Emmy Awards for their work on television shows and series over the past year, including a couple of two-time winners and two first-time winners.
Rob Paine ’92 was co-executive producer of The Oscars, which won for Outstanding Variety Special (Live). Paine, who has 16 Emmy nominations, also won in 2022 for Outstanding Variety Special (Prerecorded) for Adele: One Night Only.
Editor Steve Welch ’92 also picked up his second Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program for his work on the Welcome to Wrexham episode, “Up the Town?”. In 2003, he won Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series for Malcolm in the Middle.
First-time Emmy winners included Catherine Trasborg ’11, who won Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment) for her work on The Daily Show’s “The Dailyshowography of Vivek Ramaswamy: Enter the Ramaverse,” and Alyssa Dressman Lehner ’99, who won Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program for her work on The Voice. Trasborg has three previous nominations and Lehner has one.
And Scott Wittman ’76 picked up his first Emmy for his song, “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” featured in the “Sitzprobe” episode of Only Murders in the Building, which won Outstanding Music & Lyrics. He has three Emmy nominations (and one Oscar nomination).
Though they weren’t on the ballot, Maggie Morlath ’16, was a Producer of Shark Tank, which won Outstanding Structured Reality Program, and Chris Del Conte ’93 is Director and World Wide Head of Visual Effects & Virtual Production at Amazon MGM Studios, producer of Outstanding Emerging Media Program winner Fallout: Vault 33.
While all of Emerson’s winners took home their awards during the Creative Arts ceremonies on Sept. 7 and 8, one Emersonian did take the stage during the Primetime Awards Show on Sept 15. Emmy Award-winner Henry Winkler ’67 joined his Happy Days castmate Ron Howard to present the award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
As the two stood in a recreated set of Arnold’s Diner, Howard noticed there wasn’t any music playing (like all the other presents got). Good thing the Fonz was there to give the jukebox a slap.
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