Director

Joan Ganz Cooney

Production

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 1103687

IMDb ID: nm0177760

Known for: Production

Born: November 30, 1929

Age: 96

Place of birth: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1968 - 2024

Years active: 57

Average TMDB rating: 7.16

Wikidata: Q6205061

Also known as

Joan Ganz

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Creator (7)Executive Producer (2)

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Biography

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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