Arlene Sherman was an American

United States

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 television producer

Television producer

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Positions held

• Producer on Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983. The title comes from a song in the special "Don't Eat the Pictures," sung by Cookie Monster. It was released to VHS in 1987...
  
  (1983)
• Executive Producer on Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (1994), Elmo's World: The Wild Wild West (2001), Sesame Street: Computer Caper (2002), Sesame Street: Healthy, Happy Monsters (2004), What's the Name of That Song (2004), and Sesame Street: Friends to the Rescue (2005)
• Co-executive-producer on Elmo's World: Reach for the Sky (2006), Elmo's World: Pets! (2006), and Elmo's World: What Makes You Happy? (2007)

Awards and nominations

Sherman received two Primetime Emmy award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 nominations in the category Outstanding Children's Program, for her work on Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983. The title comes from a song in the special "Don't Eat the Pictures," sung by Cookie Monster. It was released to VHS in 1987...

and Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration. She was nominated in 1984 and 1994. Her first nomination was shared with Dulcy Singer

Dulcy Singer

Dulcy Singer served as an American television producer for Christmas Eve on Sesame Street in 1978 and as executive producer for Sesame Street from 1982-1995.She received her B.A...

, Lisa Simon

Lisa Simon

Lisa Simon is an American television producer and director.-Positions held:* Assistant Director on Chavez * Production Assistant on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit * Consulting Producer on Wonder Pets...

, and Tony Geiss

Tony Geiss

Tony Geiss was an award-winning producer, scriptwriter, songwriter and author, known principally for his children's work....

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She has also been nominated for ten Daytime Emmy awards in the categories Outstanding Children's Series, and Outstanding Pre-school Children's Series, for her work on Sesame Street

Sesame Street

Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

. She was nominated from 1991 to 2003, and won all ten awards. Her first win was shared with Dulcy Singer and Lisa Simon.

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