Barbara Gaines (television producer), Date of Birth

Barbara Gaines (television producer)

American television producer

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1957

Profession: television producer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Barbara Gaines was Executive Producer of the Late Show with David Letterman.
She held that position from May 2000 through the show's finale in 2015.
She was a 1975 graduate of George W.
Hewlett High School and 1979 graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in educational television.She began her association with David Letterman in 1980 as a production assistant on The David Letterman Show and rose through the ranks.
She held such positions as production coordinator and assistant producer.
In fifteen years as a producer on the show, she gained eleven Emmy nominations and won 5 consecutive awards for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
She became one of the most popular members of staff with audiences, when she began making regular appearances on the show, including taking part in 'How's The Weather?', where Letterman would telephone a random number in a phone book picked out by Gaines, to ask about the weather where the person lived.
She also worked on production for the Orange Bowl Parade; One of the Boys, a comedy series starring Mickey Rooney, Nathan Lane and Dana Carvey, and The $50,000 Pyramid.Gaines made the 2008 Ten Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz… list.