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Nationality
  
American

Occupation
  
Author, TV Creator.


Name
  
Sheryl Leach

Role
  
Author

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Full Name
  
Sheryl Lyna Stamps

Born
  
December 31, 1952 (age 71) (
1952-12-31
)
Dallas, Texas

Known for
  
Creator of Barney & Friends

Education
  
Southern Methodist University

Nominations
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series

Movies and TV shows
  
Barney & Friends, Barney and the Backyard, Barney's Great Adventure

Similar People
  
Bob West, Dean Wendt, Julie Johnson, Patty Wirtz, David Joyner

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Sheryl Lyna Stamps Leach (born December 31, 1952) is an American children's TV show creator and author much known for being the creator of the popular children's show Barney & Friends. Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer joined her in creating the show.

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Career

Leach, a former teacher, worked with Parker on the idea that would become the eventual TV show in 1987. Originally, the star was going to be a teddy bear, but since her toddler son had an interest in dinosaurs and they went to the museum in fall of that year, the character changed to a dinosaur. Leach then brought together a team who created a series of home videos called Barney and the Backyard Gang. The videos were sold directly to the public. Later, in 1991, Connecticut Public Television employee Larry Rifkin rented a Barney video for his daughter. He liked the concept, so he spoke with Leach and other creators about putting Barney on television. In October of that year, production began on the new TV show, titled Barney & Friends, and in April 1992, it first aired on PBS.

Currently, Leach's company SL Productions LLC is developing a feature film of The Unicorn Sonata, based on the novel by Peter S. Beagle. Additionally, with her husband, Howard Rosenfeld, she has created and funded the Shei'rah Foundation, a not-for-profit organization using media to encourage understanding between differing cultures.

Leach, the daughter of Texas educators Billy and Mary (Whitesides) Stamps, was born in Henderson County, Texas, and raised in Dallas. A graduate of Kimball High School in Dallas, she holds a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University and a master's and honorary doctorate from Texas A&M University–Commerce.

References

Sheryl Leach Wikipedia