{"id":248990,"date":"2026-07-22T02:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:42:10","slug":"jamie-balliet-emmy-winning-freddy-awards-producer-dies-at-55-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248990\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Balliet, Emmy-winning Freddy Awards producer, dies at 55 | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"jaime balliet passes.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5fce9e64ebb.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A longtime producer of the Freddy Awards has died.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Balliet&#8217;s obituary says she passed away peacefully on July 15th.<\/p>\n<p>She spent nearly three decades working for the State Theatre for the Arts in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Balliet won two Eastern Atlantic Emmy Awards for producing the Freddy Awards, which showcases regional high school musical productions and the exceptional student performers and crews.<\/p>\n<p>The Palmerton High School graduate was also a strong advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, women\u2019s equality, and Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her wife, Meghan, and her daughters Lucy and Olivia.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Balliet was 55 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A longtime producer of the Freddy Awards has died. Jamie Balliet&#8217;s obituary says she passed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2181,102648,83306,106561,106564,106563,106562,10095],"class_list":["post-248990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton","tag-emmy-awards","tag-freddy-awards","tag-jamie-balliet","tag-lgbtqia-advocacy","tag-palmerton-high-school","tag-state-theatre-for-the-arts","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}