Joan Ganz Cooney
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Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was co-created by her.
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Jim Henson Idea Man
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Follow That Bird
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Knife Skills
Sesame Street: 20 Years & Still Counting! 1969-1989
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Sesame Street Pitch Reel
Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 1 (1969-1974)
Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 3 (1979-1984)
Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 2 (1974-1979)23 credits on file
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About this person
Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET. Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys.
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