Sarah Durkee is a writer and lyricist, a television lyricist and screenwriter, and an author and humorist.
Durkee and her husband
Paul Jacobs are the creators of the theme song for the popular
PBS
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literacy education series, ''
Between the Lions
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'', and have also written many other musical numbers for the program. Since the mid-1980s, Durkee has also been a frequent contributor of scripts and songs to the children's 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) ...
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Arthur
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Wonder Pets
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Dora the Explorer
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Lomax, the Hound of Music". She and Paul Jacobs collaborated on several songs for
Meat Loaf
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, including the 1984 hit "Modern Girl." Both Durkee and Jacobs are veterans of the ''
National Lampoon'' comedy troupe from the 1970s (she as an actor, he as music director). In January 2006, her first novel for young adults, ''The Fruit Bowl Project'', was published by Delacorte Press. Its target audience is students in grades 5–8.
Sarah Durkee has won five
Daytime Emmy Awards
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for her writing contributions to "Sesame Street" and ''Between the Lions'', for both script and songwriting. She lives in New York City.
External links
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Jacobs and Durkee, ''National Lampoon''fro
Mark's Very Large ''National Lampoon'' Site(April 20, 2002)
Living people
Daytime Emmy Award winners
21st-century American composers
Sesame Street crew
Year of birth missing (living people)
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