Rob Tranchin is a senior producer, writer and director of documentaries and outreach specials for KERA, where he also serves as executive producer for content. His national productions for PBS include Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater (co-written and produced with Kay Cattarulla), Roy Bedichek's Vanishing Frontier, Wildcatter (for American Experience), Who Cares about Kids? with poet and author Maya Angelou, For a Deaf Son, and Peacemaker. In 1999, Tranchin won a national Emmy Award as writer and co-producer of KERA’s four-part, nationally-televised PBS series The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). In 2000, Tranchin was nominated for another national Emmy Award as writer and co-producer of KERA’s documentary Matisse & Picasso, a compelling portrait of two giants of 20th century art. He is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University, and has lived and traveled extensively in Japan, where he worked as an assistant director to the Japanese film director Imamura Shohei.
