Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that produces Sesame Street and other shows, has announced that company co-founder Lloyd N. Morrisett has passed away. He was 93. After receiving his doctorate in experimental psychology, Morrisett served as Vice President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in the 1960s which is where the seed that would become the Children’s Television Workshop was planted. Working alongside Joan Ganz Cooney, the pair would craft the idea that lead to Sesame Street while pondering the potential for television as a tool for education, and ultimately changing the landscape of kid’s programming forever.
Alongside Joan Ganz Cooney and Jim Henson, Morrisett was one of the original co-creators of Sesame Street. Morrisett would go on to serve as as Chairman of Sesame Workshop’s Board of Trustees for thirty years, later working as Trustee and Chairman Emeritus and then Lifetime Honorary Trustee.
“He was fascinated by the power of technology and constantly thinking about new ways …