Trailblazer Carol Scott Dies at 56 Emmy Winning Producer-Director

Carol Scott Caramadre, a pioneering television producer-director who won her fourth Daytime Emmy Award just last month, passed away June 24 in Studio City, California.  Caramadre, 56, had been battling chondro sarcoma cancer for more than two years.  Credited as Carol Scott, she was a behind-the-scenes trailblazer in the world of television for women professionals from the 1970s through the present.
The Pennsylvania native first broke into television in 1971 as a production assistant for ABC-TV in New York, after attending Centinary College for Women in New Jersey.  Quickly advancing, Scott worked her way up from associate director and other directorial positions to producer roles and is heavily lauded for achievements in the three-camera sitcom format.  She made her mark with syndication staples such as Night Court, All in the Family and many other programs. Scott was also instrumental in the Starlight Vocal Band specials, the platform that launched the promising, young comedian David Letterman.

Scott partnered with then-husband David Sheehan in 1982 to produce the first-ever Broadway musical broadcast on live television, Bob Fosse's Tony Award winning musical Pippin. In 1993, she joined the General Hospital team, where she played an array of roles, including camera director, line producer, co-producer, producer and more.  Scott's work on GH yielded four Emmy awards.

Carol Scott Caramadre is survived by her husband, Smith-Barney investment manager Brian Caramadre; her daughter, Kelly Marie Sheehan; her mother Mercedes Englehart Pryce of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; a brother and two sisters.  In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Premiere Oncology Foundation, attn: Lee Rosen, M.D., 2020 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 510, Santa Monica, California 90404.