Tony Geiss



Tony Geiss is a staff writer and songwriter for Sesame Street and related productions, often teamed with Judy Freudberg. Geiss conceptualized the Honkers (based on his own childhood habit of honking his nose ) and Abby Caddaby.

Geiss' early TV career was spent in London scripting The David Frost Show, and first joined Children's Television Workshop as a writer on the health series Feelin' Good. He also scripted television specials and revues for the likes of Dick Cavett and Bill Cosby. In the 1980s, after scripting Follow That Bird as his cinematic debut, Geiss and Freudberg co-wrote the Don Bluth animated features An American Tail and The Land Before Time.

Writing Credits

 * Sesame Street
 * Don't Eat the Pictures
 * Follow That Bird
 * Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting
 * Sing-Along Earth Songs
 * Elmo Saves Christmas
 * The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street
 * Cinderelmo
 * Elmo's World segments: Dinosaurs, Doctors, Ears, Fish, Jumping, Penguins, School, Skin, Weather, Wild Animals

Books

 * The Count Counts a Party
 * Elmo Saves Christmas
 * The Four Seasons
 * Honk if You Like Honkers
 * The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook
 * The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 4
 * The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures
 * Susan and Gordon Adopt a Baby
 * Vegetable Soup