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Sesame Workshop, originally known as the Children's Television Workshop, is an American nonprofit educational television production and media company that has been responsible for the production of se
CTW Co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney, in 1985
Co-founder Lloyd Morrisett, in 2010
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, in 1989
The South African co-production Takalani Sesame, with its unique set and some of the show's characters
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 Workshop
…the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally. Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett developed the idea to form an organization to produce the Sesame Street television series. They spent two years, from 1966 to 1968…
Joan Ganz Cooney, in her apartment, portrait by Lynn Gilbert, 1977, New York