Merrill La Monte Brockway was an American television producer known for producing the PBS television series Dance in America.
10 Facts About Merrill Brockway
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Merrill Brockway began playing piano at age seven, and served in the United States Army in Europe during World War II, when he drove for a chaplain and played music for the chaplain's services.
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Merrill Brockway became interested in dance after a Columbia classmate took him to see Martha Graham.
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In 1953, Merrill Brockway joined WCAU and his first job was moving scenery for Action in the Afternoon.
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Merrill Brockway then joined PBS and directed and produced Dance in America, a sub-series of Great Performances, until 1980, when he returned to CBS as executive producer of arts programming for the newly formed CBS Cable cultural channel, which was discontinued two years later.
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Merrill Brockway directed American Masters installments on Stella Adler and Tennessee Williams.
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Merrill Brockway received two primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Dance in America, in 1979 and 1984.
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Merrill Brockway won two awards for directorial achievement from the Directors Guild of America.
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Merrill Brockway retired to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1993.
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Merrill Brockway's archives are stored at National Dance Institute New Mexico.