Sesame Street
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Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation, and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop and was created by Joan Ganz
Co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney. Pictured 1985
Lloyd Morrisett, co-creator. Pictured 2010
First Lady Barbara Bush participates with Big Bird in an educational taping of Sesame Street at United Studios, 1989
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a Let's Move! and Sesame Street public service announcement taping with Big Bird in the White House Kitchen, 2013
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,
Sesame Street
…comedy, animation, and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) and was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. It features Jim Henson's Muppets, and includes short films, with humor and cultural references. It premiered on November 10, 1969…
Joan Ganz Cooney, in her apartment, portrait by Lynn Gilbert, 1977, New York