Wqed pittsburgh rick sebak biography

American film director

Richard Sebak^[1] (born June 5, 1953) is an American public broadcastingtelevision producer, writer and narrator who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.

Wqed pittsburgh rick sebak biography

Early life and education

Richard Sebak was born on June 5, 1953, in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]} He attended Bethel Park High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Sebak's first foray in the nostalgia documentary is the 1984 documentary Shag for South Carolina ETV, about a dance popular in the region.

Four years later at WQED, Sebak produced The Mon, The Al & The O, about the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers, which meet to form at Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle; and Kennywood Memories, about Kennywood, a historic local amusement park.

As of March 2006, 313,227 copies of Sebak's films had been sold or given