Carol-Lynn Parente (born December 15, 1963) is an American television producer, known as the executive producer of the children's educational TV series ''
Sesame Street
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Hero Elementary
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NorthJersey.com
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.
Early life
Carol-Lynn Parente was born in
Queens
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, and grew up in
West Milford, New Jersey
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. She majored in marketing and economics at
Rutgers University
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Parente began working on the children's educational TV series ''
Sesame Street
''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...
'' as a post Production Assistant.
Parente managed the animation and post production of the show's '' Elmo's World'' segment, introduced to the show in 1998. She has also done similar work on ''Elmo's World: Happy Holidays'' and ''Kids Favorite Songs 2'', both of which were winners of Telly Awards.
She was promoted to the position of executive producer in June 2005. She has won multiple Emmy Awards for her work on the show. As senior producer, Parente shared the Emmy Award in 2006 for "Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series", the seventh award she has earned.Carol-Lynn Parente: Executive Producer , ''
Sesame Street
''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...
The Hudson Reporter
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''.
Awards and accolades
In 2008 Parente was honored at the second annual Showtime 2009 gala at the
Park Performing Arts Center
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in Union City, where she lives. She was given an award for her work, which she accepted with help from the ''Sesame Street'' character
Elmo
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