Ellen Doherty is Chief Creative Officer for Fred Rogers Productions, overseeing the development and production of content for all platforms. She serves as executive producer for the company’s current series on PBS KIDS – Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Odd Squad, Donkey Hodie and Alma’s Way.

She also developed Donkey Hodie and Alma’s Way and is the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the award-winning Through the Woods, a short form series about nature also available on PBS KIDS. Ellen also founded FRP’s Writers’ Neighborhood, a career development program for emerging writers in children’s media, now in its fifth year.

In 2025, she created and led production of Many Ways to Show You Care, a digital first initiative about caregiving for children and families. In 2023, Ellen was inducted into the inaugural cohort of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Silver Circle, which recognizes distinguished service within the industry for 25 years and was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s first-ever list of “The 75 Most Powerful People in Kids’ Entertainment.”

She was also spotlighted in Variety’s 2022 Family Entertainment Impact Report as one of the year’s top content creators, producers, directors, and executives. In 2018, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy® Award for Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like, a primetime special for PBS on the 50th anniversary of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. A Webby® and four-time Emmy® Award-winning producer and writer with more than 20 years’ experience in children's media, Ellen was previously executive producer and story editor of the PBS KIDS series Cyberchase. She oversaw production of television and digital content for the series for six seasons, including creating several shortform video series. Ellen began her career as an associate producer on the beloved PBS KIDS series Reading Rainbow. She has a B.A. in Communications from Boston College and will show you on her hand where she grew up in Michigan.