SAG Awards Exec Producer Kathy Connell Announces Retirement, Previews Her Final Ceremony (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSAG Awards executive producer Kathy Connell, who helped launch the awards show 28 years ago and has been with the show ever since, has confirmed that this weekend’s ceremony will be her last.“I am retiring,” she tells Variety. “It’s been 28 wonderful years.
Well, last year was sort of interesting, but 27 wonderful years. It is time and I am looking forward to family and traveling.
I couldn’t be more proud. I call it one of my two babies. One of my babies is a Title IX officer at UC Irvine. And this is my other baby and, they’re both doing great and don’t need me anymore.”Jon Brockett, who will executive produce Sunday’s SAG Awards with Connell, calls it a bit of an end of an era for the show. “Kathy’s been the leader of this ragtag band for a long time.
I have learned a boatload from her in terms of how to produce the show and I am very humbled and honored to follow in her footsteps — her leopard print, kitten heel footprints.” At least, for Connell’s final show, the SAG Awards will return in-person this year on Feb.
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