Nationality American Role Television producer Name Angela Santomero | Website www.angelasclues.com Occupation Television producer Spouse Greg Santomero | |
Full Name Angela C. Santomero Born 1968 (age 46–47) The Bronx, New York Known for Co-creator of Blue's Clues, creator of Super Why, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Peep and the Big Wide World and The WotWots Education Teachers College, Columbia University Movies and TV shows Blue's Clues, Super Why! Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series Books A Blue's Clues Holiday, Welcome To Blues Clues, Good night - Blue, Blue's big birthday, Blue Goes to School Similar People Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler, Donovan Patton, Steve Burns, Fred Rogers | ||
Angela santomero blue s clues 2001 peabody award acceptance speech
Angela C. Santomero (born 1968) is an American television executive producer and co-creator of the long-running Nickelodeon children's television program Blue's Clues, as well as the PBS children's shows Super Why, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Peep and the Big Wide World and The WotWots and the Amazon Studios series Creative Galaxy.
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- Angela santomero blue s clues 2001 peabody award acceptance speech
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Works cited
- References
Early life and education
Santomero grew up in Harrington Park, New Jersey, where she attended Harrington Park Public School before attending and graduating from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan in 1986. She received her bachelor's degree from Catholic University, which later presented her with their Young Alumni Merit Award. She earned a master's degree in child development and psychology, with a specialty in instructional technology and media, from Columbia University. During graduate school, she was influenced by the research of Daniel R. Anderson, who studied the effects of television violence on children and later served as a researcher and consultant for Blue's Clues, and "became fascinated with the idea that if television could have a powerful negative effect on kids, it could have an equally powerful positive effect on them..." She was also influenced by Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and the researchers of Sesame Street.
Career
Santomero worked as a researcher for Nickelodeon in the early 1990s, when the network was looking to create a new television show for preschoolers. In 1994, Santomero, along with director Todd Kessler and animator Traci Page Johnson (a group that Nickelodeon executive Brown Johnson called a "green creative team"), created the "landmark" series Blue's Clues. According to writer Diane Tracy, Santomero, Kessler, and Johnson did not possess traditional backgrounds of most producers of children's programs, but "did possess an amazing combination of talents, backgrounds, and personal attributes". Santomero served as executive producer and head writer, and designed the show's research and curriculum. She produced and developed other Blue's Clues projects, such as the full-length movie Blue's Big Musical Movie, educational CDs and books based on the show, and two Blue's Clues theatrical productions, which toured across the U.S. In 2004, Santomero co-created the Discovery Kids and TLC TV Series Peep and the Big Wide World with Kaj Pindal, Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. In 2007, Santomero created the PBS program Super Why; she also served as executive producer and head writer. In 2009, Santomero co-created the New Zealand TV Series The WotWots with Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor.
In 2011, she became host of PBS's The Parent Show, an online series about parenting. In September 2012, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, for which Santomero is executive producer and head writer, debuted on PBS.
Personal life
Santomero resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her husband Greg, an Emmy Award-winning designer/creative director and their two daughters.