Eric Schultz
Producer

Eric Schultz is an NJN award-winning producer and director of arts and cultural programming and a regular contributor to NJN’s weekly arts program, State of the Arts. During his first year at NJN in 2001, he received a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for My Two Dads, a segment for the PBS national project American Family Portraits. In 2003, he received an Emmy for Young at Heart, a State of the Arts feature about Dorothy Young, Harry Houdini’s last surviving assistant on Broadway. The year 2004 brought a New York Emmy for a program featuring legendary choral conductor Joseph Flummerfelt, and this year, Mr. Schultz received another Mid-Atlantic Emmy for a program called Tools of the Trade, which included a story about Mozart’s piano.

Before coming to NJN, Mr. Schultz produced a several nationally distributed PBS music programs. In the fall of 2006, PBS distributed his most recent documentary, Peanuts Gallery, which tells the story of the friendship between legendary cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and the cartoons and music they inspired each other to create.

Eric Schultz was trained as a cellist and during the 1980s performed with orchestras and chamber groups in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Michigan.