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Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television writer and producer.She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was co-created by her.
CTW Co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney, in 1985 Co-founder Lloyd Morrisett, in 2010. In the winter of 1966, Joan Ganz Cooney hosted what she called "a little dinner party" [8] at her apartment near Gramercy Park. Attending were her husband Tim Cooney, her boss Lewis Freedman, and Lloyd and Mary Morrisett, whom the Cooneys knew socially. [9]
The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett. The series aired on PBS for 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971, to April 15 ...
Joan Ganz Cooney, speaking of the international co-productions of Sesame Street [116] Shortly after the premiere of Sesame Street , the CTW was approached by producers, educators, and officials in other nations, requesting that a version of the show be aired in their countries.
Lloyd Newton Morrisett Jr. (November 2, 1929 – January 15, 2023) was an American experimental psychologist with a career in education, communications, and philanthropy. . He was one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop), the organization that created the children's television show Sesame Street, which Morrisett created with Joan Ganz Cooney from ...
Co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney, 1985 The Carnegie Corporation , one of Sesame Street's first financial backers, hired Cooney, a producer of educational talk shows and documentaries with little experience in education, [ 7 ] during the summer of 1967 to visit experts in child development , education, and media across the U.S. and Canada.
Sesame Workshop, formerly Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American nonprofit television production company. It has been involved in a variety of television series and films, in addition to international co-productions of Sesame Street that have been broadcast in over 140 countries.
By summer 1970, he had made the first international agreements for what the CTW came to call "co-productions". [3] Sesame Street co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney, in 1985. Cooney was surprised that other countries were interested in producing their own versions of the American show. As of 2006, there were 20 active co-productions. [2]