Michael Loman

Michael Loman ...Your Guide to Sesame Street Executive Producer, Sesame Street 11-Time Emmy Award Winner Instructor, Yale University Michael's Background There are life lessons to be learned from Sesame Street. Although the target audience is 2-4 years of age, the key element has always been how Sesame Street communicates its message. No one does it better. Even when dealing with subjects that tend to overwhelm little children (i.e. Mr. Hooper’s death), the show offers clear insight in an unfrightening manner. All scripts are carefully reviewed by the VP of Curriculum at Sesame Workshop to ensure the proper balance between entertainment values and education. The curriculum is drawn from a forty page statement of educational goals created by pre-school experts.

About The Program
In his presentations, Michael Loman combines lecture with video segments personally compiled from the archives of the 3+ decades of Sesame Street. There are four specific reels available and you, the sponsor, pick two for inclusion in your program.

Mr. Loman is also prepared to discuss the art of situation comedy writing for audiences wishing to explore an analysis of this hugely popular genre.

About Michael Loman
Michael Loman has had an outstanding career as a writer and producer in television.

His credits as a writer include the classics, All in the Family, Happy Days, One Day at a Time and Alice. He has also written several pilots and the libretto for a Broadway musical based on the Our Gang comedies.

As a producer, he was involved in stalwarts such as The Cosby Show (for which he won an Emmy award), Newhart and The Hogan Family.

For the past ten years, as the Executive Producer of Sesame Street he has won an Emmy every year for his work. He has also advised Sesame Street international productions for South Africa, Egypt, Poland, Germany, Spain and Mexico. In addition, he has conducted international writer’s seminars for co-productions of Sesame Street in Jerusalem with the joint Israeli-Palestinian production and in Shanghai with the Chinese production.

Awards and nominations for Mr. Loman include Humanitas Award, NAACP Image Award, Bravo Award (Latino), EDI Award (Easter Seals Society), Parents Choice Award, Japan Prize, Smithsonian Institute Diversity Award and Directors Guild of America Diversity Award.

Michael Loman has spoken to a wide variety of organizations and lectured at Harvard, USC, Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania and other prominent universities. Interviews with Mr. Loman have appeared in major publications such as Variety, Barron’s and The New York Times and he has been on all of the major networks.

He holds a B.S. in Education from New York University and currently teaches two enormously popular courses at Yale University on various aspects of comedy writing and the sitcom genre.

Program Options Include...
GREAT MOMENTS FROM SESAME STREET
HUMOR
DIVERSITY
DANCE
Customized programs also available

Great Moments from Sesame Street
For example:
• Maria and Luis’ wedding
• the birth of Gabi
• the first appearance of Big Bird’s pal, Snuffleupaguss
• Ernie singing “Rubber Duckie” in his bathtub
• Mr. Hooper’s death

Humor
For example:
• “Gone With the Wind”
by Monsterpiece Theatre
• Ernie playing checkers with a live pigeon
• Oscar’s pal, Slimey the Worm, trying out for the Worm Air and Space Agency’s worm spaceship to the moon as Tony Bennett sings “Slimey to the Moon”

Diversity
• Including the extraordinary clip of Lena Horne singing “Being Green” to Kermit the Frog

Dance
• Dance Theatre of Harlem
• Stars of American Ballet Theatre
• Savion Glover
• wheelchair ballet

Topics:
1. How to Use Comedy to Educate: The Impact of Sesame Street
2. Sesame Street’s Greatest Hits: From Dancing to Diversity
3. From Sitcoms to Sesame Street: Diversity is Served

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