Richard Fernandes

Richard A. Fernandes (b. 1964) is an American television director and producer.

Positions held

• Director on Bear in the Big Blue House, Out of the Box, Between the Lions, Johnny and the Sprites, and The Pet Psychic.
• Assistant Director on Taina and Clarissa Explains It All.
• Producer on Taina, Bear in the Big Blue House, The Pet Psychic, and The Book of Pooh.
• Editor on Clarissa Explains It All, Taina, The Puzzle Place, Reading Rainbow and Nickelodeon Arcade.

Awards and nominations

Fernandes has been nominated for seven Daytime Emmy Awards in the categories Outstanding Single Camera Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Editing, Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series, and Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series, for his work on Reading Rainbow, Bear in the Big Blue House, Between the Lions, Out of the Box, and Blue's Room. He was nominated from 1997 to 2008, and won once in 2000. His win was shared with Mitchell Kriegman and Dean Gordon.