Cooney, Joan Ganz

LC control no.	n 80072668
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Cooney, Joan Ganz *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Ganz, Joan, 1929-
Associated place	New York (N.Y.) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	19291130
Place of birth	Phoenix (Ariz.)
Field of activity	Television--Production and direction Public television Management
Affiliation	University of Arizona WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) Children's Television Workshop
Profession or occupation	Television producers and directors Executives
Found in	Children are people, too [SR] 1979 (a.e.) label (Joan Ganz Cooney) narration (pres. of the Children's Television Workshop) I am Big Bird: the Caroll Spinney story, c2014: container (featuring Joan Ganz Cooney) Wikipedia, August 14, 2015: (Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television producer, co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop; born November 30, 1929 as Joan Ganz, in Phoenix, Arizona; earned a B.A. in education from the University of Arizona in 1951; worked for the State Department in Washington, D.C., as a journalist in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a publicist for television and production companies in New York, New York; in 1961, she became interested in working for educational television and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET; 1966-1969, developed the CTW and Sesame Street; as executive director of CTW from 1969-1990, she was one of the first female executives in American television)
Associated language	eng