SESAME STREET—During the 1970s I was one of the Directors of this series, both on location and in the studio. Many of the Muppet segments I directed and several short films I produced are still being aired as part of the series.
DIRECTOR (selected works)
WHAT KIDS WANT TO KNOW ABOUTSEX & GROWING UP ̶ Director of this 60 minute video for air as well as on DVD for home and school audiences.
THE ROTTEN TRUTH ̶ Director of this PBS prime time special on the garbage problem (1990). Still a best-selling home video.
SHALOM SESAME ̶ Director of comedy segments featuring Joan Rivers, Itzhak Perlman, Alan King, David Brenner, and others of this home video series.
YOU CAN'T GROW HOME AGAIN ̶ Director and field producer of this one hour PBS special on the vanishing rain forests.
SESAME STREET IN PUERTO RICO ̶ Directed this Emmy-nominated PBS prime-time special shot entirely on location in Puerto Rico (1979).
THE GAME AND ITS GLORY ̶ Directed Donald Sutherland in this prime-time NBC Special about the history of baseball. Winner of a Prime-time Emmy as Outstanding Sports Special (1982).
BIG BIRD IN CHINA ̶ Second Unit Director & Associate Director of this ninety minute special for NBC, shot in China. Winner of a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program (1983).
NICKELODEON– Produced, wrote, and directed a series of shorts for this cable channel during its initial seasons.
CARRASCOLENDAS ̶ Associate Producer and Director of this bilingual PBS series for children (1974). Produced in Austin, Texas.
WRITER / SCRIPTCONSULTANT/CREATIVE ADVISER:
THE BASEBALL BUNCH ̶ Developed the original scripts and directed this weekly half-hour syndicated series for teens, produced by Major League Baseball Productions. Aired for several seasons on CBS.
AMIGOS - I wrote the series produced by the University of Tennessee for PBS. The series taught Spanish as a second language to English speaking 1st to 4th graders.
EDITOR:
SESAME STREET ̶ Post Production Supervisor. Was responsible for the technical quality and pace of this show from 1971 to 1980.
CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET ̶ Associate Director/Editor of this Emmy award-winning PBS special, directed by Jon Stone.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
U.S.State Department (USIA) and Member of the Indo-U.S. Sub-commission on Education and Culture. For the USIA I was sent to Lima, Peru, to lecture producers and directors on the techniques of film and television production. For the Indo-U.S. Sub-commission I was participant in a number of workshops aimed at teaching the techniques of science television writing and production to Indian producers and directors.I have field produced, directed, and written in locations such as: Borneo,Malaysia, Australia, Japan, France, Greece, Deep Sea off Bermuda (underwater archeology),England, Spain, India, Luxembourg, China, Mauna Loa-Hawaii, Mexico,Costa Rica, Machu Picchu-Peru, Puerto Rico, and others.