2024Winner
Best Performance
Jim Henson Idea Man
Joan Ganz Cooney
Actor · Producer
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
November 30, 1929
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1985Nominee
Best Picture
Follow That Bird
2011Nominee
Best Performance
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Career Highlights
1989Highlight
Best Performance
Sesame Street: 20 Years & Still Counting! 1969-1989
2021Highlight
Best Performance
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Video
Jim Henson Idea Man
Follow That Bird
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey