SALLY ROSENTHAL
Sally Rosenthal is an award-winning documentary television producer and director, focusing primarily on performing arts history. She produced the six-part PBS series Broadway: The American Musical (2004), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series, as well as the Emmy-nominated six-part PBS series Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009) and the acclaimed three-part PBS series Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013), all with American Masters’ Executive Producer Michael Kantor. She was a producer on the eight-part PBS series Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016), for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Film. Most recently, she produced the American Masters films N. Scott Momaday: Words From A Bear (2019 Sundance Film Festival), and Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (2017 Toronto International Film Festival).