Name Josh Selig | Role TV Series Creator | |
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Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction And Composition Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series TV shows The Wonder Pets, Small Potatoes, 3rd & Bird, Oobi, The Adventures of Napkin Similar People Jennifer Oxley, Luis Santeiro, Lou Berger, Tone Thyne, Emily Kingsley | ||
Oobi Song for 200th Episode - "Handful"
Joshua Selig (born May 12, 1964) is an American television producer and director. He is the founder of Little Airplane Productions, a television studio headquartered in New York City. He has won ten Daytime Emmy Awards for his work as a writer on Sesame Street.
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Josh Selig was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He began his career as a child actor on Sesame Street during its first two seasons. As a teenager, Selig attended Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied theater and poetry. He returned to Sesame Street in 1988 as a writer. He also worked on the Israeli-Palestinian and Polish adaptations of the show during the 1990s. In 1998, he conceived the idea for Little Airplane Productions. The company was initially a joint effort between Selig and Lori Sherman. Until 2006, the studio's works were solely live-action, including Oobi and a short film titled The Time-Out Chair. Written and directed by Selig, the film premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and was later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
Selig created Go, Baby! in 2004 as a series of interstitials for Playhouse Disney. In 2005, he directed two pilots for the Wonder Pets! series along with Jennifer Oxley. The show premiered in the United States on March 3, 2006. Wonder Pets! merchandise brought in enough revenue for Selig to open new studios in London and Abu Dhabi, established in 2007. Josh Selig's first international co-production, 3rd & Bird, debuted on CBeebies in June 2008. He continued to produce short-form series throughout the 2010s. Small Potatoes, commissioned by Disney Junior, spawned a television movie that Selig directed in 2013. In the same year, he pitched a pilot titled The Jo B. & G. Raff Show! to Amazon Studios, which was not picked up. He is currently the creator and executive producer of Disney's P. King Duckling and of the South Korean series Super Wings.