Ted is a full-time correspondent for “Chronicle”, the long-running and award-winning nightly-newsmagazine on WCVB-TV, ABC’s Boston affiliate. Covering New England, he reports on a wide-range of stories, from human-interest to current events. He received a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award in 2003 for his reporting on Boston’s “Big Dig.” Elsewhere on television, he hosted “The Popular Mechanics Show” on the Discovery Channel, and “Lighthouses” for HGTV. On the Travel Channel’s “Freeze Frame”, he landed on top of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, explored caves in Puerto Rico, and swam with sharks in Tahiti.
He is a frequent opinion columnist for Boston’s Metrowest Daily News, has written op-ed pieces for The Boston Globe, and writes a weekly online column for the Bostonchannel.com.
Ted also counts numerous professional theatre credits. He studied acting in New York with Emily Mann, and appeared on the NBC soap, “Another World.” With Boston’s Lyric Stage Company, he has appeared in David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”, and “Speed the Plow”, winner of a 1997 Elliot Norton Award. Other Boston credits include “The Deal” with the Huntington Theatre Company, “Death of a Salesman” with the Nora, and the original production of Israel Horovitz’s “North Shore Fish” with Gloucester Stage. As Detective Nick Rossetti in “Shear Madness”, he helped solve the crime more than 500 times in both the Boston and Chicago productions of America’s longest-running play ever. He is the co-author of the play, “Yom Kippur in DaNang”, and has written several plays for the annual Boston Theatre Marathon.
Ted received his B.A. and M.F.A. from Brandeis University,
is married with two daughters, and lives just west of Boston.
