Brysac, Shareen Blair 1939-

PERSONAL:

Born 1939, in Denver, CO; daughter of Fred Edward and Margaret Brysac; married Karl Ernest Meyer (a newspaper journalist), 1989. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Columbia University, B.A., 1961.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY.

CAREER:

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, New York, NY, dancer, 1960-64; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (publisher), New York, NY, staff member, 1966-68; Random House, Inc. (publisher), New York, NY, director of audio-visual department, 1968-74; Columbia Broadcasting System, New York, NY, producer for NBC News, 1974-84; City University of New York, New York, NY, program manager for CUNY-TV, 1985-86; Campus Programming Service, New York, NY, director, 1987—. Dancer with Jose Limon Dance Company, 1960 and 1964, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1962, and Lincoln Center Repertory Company, 1964. Producer of the television documentary 1968.

MEMBER:

Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America.

AWARDS, HONORS:

duPont Citation, 1978, for 1968; Emmy Awards, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1978, for 1968, and 1982, for Juilliard; George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Awards, Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia, 1981, for The Ballerina, and 1982, for Juilliard; Rockefeller Foundation grant, 1987.

WRITINGS:

(With husband, Karl E. Meyer) Tournament of Shadows: The Race for Empire in Central Asia, Counterpoint (Washington, DC), 1999.

Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Writer, producer, and director of the television specials The Cowboy, The Craftsman, and The Ballerina; writer and producer of the television presentation Juilliard.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, October 18, 1999, review of Tournament of Shadows: The Race for Empire in Central Asia, p. 59.