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 in 2005, Eric received another Mid-Atlantic Emmy for a program called Tools of the Trade, which included a story about the oldest piano know to exist, a piano from the time of  composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Before coming to NJN, Eric produced several nationally distributed PBS music programs. In the fall of 2006, PBS distributed his most recent documentary, Peanuts Gallery. This documentary 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. Peanuts Gallery  received  the 2006 Award for Best Performance Program from NETA , the National Educational Television Association.

Earlier in life, Eric trained as a cellist and during the 1980s performed with orchestras and chamber groups in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Michigan. When he has time now, he continues to play for groups throughout the Delaware Valley.