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Michael Loman

Professor of Television

BS, New York University.

Professor Michael Loman has spent 30 years writing and producing for some of America's most famous and groundbreaking television shows. He wrote for All in the Family, Happy Days, One Day at a Time and Alice and wrote and produced for The Cosby Show, Newhart, and The Hogan Family. One of the pilot scripts that he wrote (Ladies Man) went on to become a series at CBS for which he served as Supervising Producer. Loman is also a formidable presence in the field of children's television having served as Executive Producer of Sesame Street for 10 years. He traveled to Israel to help create an Israeli-Palestinian version of Sesame Street and also went to China to help in the creation of the Chinese Sesame Street.

He received his Bachelor's degree from New York University's School of Education. In recent years he has returned to his roots in education, teaching courses on television at Yale University and NYU. He has had speaking engagements at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, USC and various other universities and has been interviewed on a multitude of television shows. Michael has won 11 Emmy Awards, a Humanitas Certificate, and has received our department's Weil Family Award for excellence in teaching.

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