Fern Field Brooks is a television producer/writer/director who works as a television network executive for USA Network and the Sci Fi Channel. She joined the network ranks in the summer of 1996 as Director of Current Programming for both networks and development for SFC and in October of 1998 was promoted to Vice President of Programming for the Sci Fi Channel. She began her career in television working as a producer on Norman Lear's television sitcom "Maude". During one of the show's hiatus periods she produced a featurette which was nominated for an Oscar and subsequently she produced and developed children's programming, movies and mini-series for Lear's companies and then partnered with her husband, Norman Brooks, under their own banner, Brookfield Productions. She has received an Emmy, two Peabody Awards, two Humanitas Awards and a Distinguished Service Award from the President of the United States for her work with the disabled. Born in Italy of Russian parents, she grew up in New York, returning to Rome as a young newly- wed to continue her operatic studies and concert appearances. She considers "singing" the first career she gave up. Returning to New York from Rome after separating from her first husband, she went to work for an industrial film company and wound up marrying her boss. She characterizes that relationship as the most traumatic of her life. After meeting her third husband-to-be, she moved to Los Angeles in the mid-seventies. She and Norman Brooks had known each other for twenty-three years and they had been married for eleven years when he died.  Nominated for Short Films (Live Action) 1978: A DIFFERENT APPROACH - Producer (w. Jim Belcher) 1 nomination