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Dorothea Gillim has led kids’ media productions at GBH for almost fifteen years, beginning with the Emmy award-winning PBS KIDS series Curious George. She currently oversees all projects in production and development, including the PBS KIDS podcast Keyshawn Solves It as well as Molly of Denali, which has won a Peabody, Television Critics, and Kidscreen Award.
She began her television career as a writer/audio editor on the Peabody Award-winning series Dr. Katz for Comedy Central. Dorothea went on to produce Science Court for ABC Saturday Morning and Time Warp Trio for Discovery Kids before creating her first animated comedy, Hey Monie, for Oxygen/BET. In 2006 she created WordGirl for PBS KIDS, winner of four Emmys and a Television Critics Association Award.
Before her media career, Dorothea was a fifth-grade teacher. She has a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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