The experimental educator teamed up with television producer Joan Ganz Cooney to create Sesame Street after seeing his daughter interact with a TV Llo

Sesame Street co-creator Lloyd Morrisett dies aged 93

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2023-01-25 10:00:09

The experimental educator teamed up with television producer Joan Ganz Cooney to create Sesame Street after seeing his daughter interact with a TV

Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of Sesame Street, the educational television show watched by millions of children around the world, has died at the age of 93.

Morrisett’s death was first announced on Tuesday by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit he helped to co-found under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.

Sesame Workshop mourns the passing of our esteemed and beloved co-founder Lloyd N. Morrisett, PhD, who died at the age of 93. pic.twitter.com/I9cSez95Px

Born in 1929 in Oklahoma City, Morrisett initially trained to be a teacher with a background in psychology. He became an experimental educator, looking for new ways to educate children from less advantaged backgrounds through his work at Carnegie Corporation, a philanthropic foundation that focuses on education.

It was while working there that he teamed up with public television producer Joan Ganz Cooney to eventually create the Children’s Television Workshop, with the idea of making educational programs for children.