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Joan Ganz Cooney
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz on November 30, 1929) is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television…
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Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz on 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 also co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a B.A. degree 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 (Channel 13). Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys. (From Wikipedia)
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2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie Self
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2017
Knife Skills
Movie Executive Producer
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2015
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
Movie Self
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2011
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Movie Self
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2008
Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 1 (1969-1974)
Movie Creator
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2008
Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 3 (1979-1984)
Movie Creator
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2008
Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 2 (1974-1979)
Movie Creator
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2006
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Movie Self
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2005
5, Rue Sésame
TV show Creator
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1989
Sesame Street: 20 Years & Still Counting! 1969-1989
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1985
Follow That Bird
Movie Executive Producer
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1985
Television
TV show
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1978
1, rue Sésame
TV show Creator
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1972
Vila Sésamo
TV show Creator
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1969
Sesame Street
TV show Creator
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1969
Sesame Street Pitch Reel
Movie Self
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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Plaza Sésamo
TV show Creator
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Takalani Sesame
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