Fellowships
Exploring the Frontier of Children’s Learning
Sesame Workshop is looking for creators like you!
Through our fellowships we seek to find fresh new writing talent and emerging storytellers who are want to help Sesame achieve our mission of helping children become smarter, stronger and kinder.
Learn more about the ways you can create content with Sesame Workshop.
Directors’ Program
Sesame Workshop Directors’ Program is a pilot directing fellowship from the creators of Sesame Street.
Writers’ Room
Sesame Workshop Writers’ room was created especially to find fresh new writing talent from writers who reflect the diversity of our vast audience.
Sesame Pitches
Sesame Pitches allows creators to submit their ideas direct to the Sesame Workshop team.
The Sesame Workshop Writer’s Room is an 8 week writing intensive program for writers who reflect the vast diversity of our audience. The Writing Fellows each develop and workshop their own original children’s television concept and script, with guidance from a wide range of industry leaders. Select fellows will have their work featured in a staged reading and will be awarded developmental deals from Sesame Workshop.
Jen Bosworth-Ramirez | Ventura, CA
Originally from Chicago, Jen Bosworth-Ramirez is the daughter of a fierce Colombian immigrant mom, and a used car salesman turned psychologist father. A former therapist herself, Jen writes bold, grounded, and funny television for young folks and their families. Her stories primarily focus on using humor and compassion to destigmatize mental illness, especially within BIPOC communities. When not writing, Jen works with young people with autism spectrum disorder and lives in Ventura, Ca with her husband and their very recalcitrant dog, Doris.
Rebecca Chu | Santa Monica, CA
Hailing from Irvine, California, Rebecca Chu is an international, award-winning writer and film producer who loves fostering connection among disparate communities through her work. She is the co-founder of Moonbeam Literary & Media, a diverse children’s storytelling company that spans books, film, television and digital media. A mother to three young children, Rebecca recently earned her MFA from the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, after originally building her career as a business leader in tech and entertainment.
Marc Morales | Los Angeles, CA
Marc is a Puerto Rican writer/director with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emerson College. Based in Los Angeles, his work straddles both drama and comedy, exploring themes of existentialism, coming of age, and identity.
Batoul Mourad | New York, NY
Batoul is a writer from New York City. She studied History Education at NYU and has taught children grades pre-K to 12th grade. She now writes, primarily comedy, and is passionate about the storytelling inherent in our histories, whether global, national, or local. She is also a 2024 fellow at the Moonshot Pilot Accelerator Program where she will be pitching her original half-hour comedy to companies like HBO, Hulu, and Netflix.
Natasha Tarpley | Chicago, IL
Natasha Tarpley is an acclaimed children’s book author and content creator whose work affirms the richness of Black life, and the power of kids to choose who and what they want to be. She is the author of the classic bestselling picture book, I Love My Hair!, the award-winning picture book, The Me I Choose To Be, the new Keyana Loves…picture book series, and the middle grade novel, The Harlem Charade. Natasha is also the writer and Co-Creator of the award-winning children’s mystery podcast, Opal Watson: Private Eye. She lives in Chicago with her family.
Dejen Tesfagiorgis | Brooklyn, NY
Dejen (Day-Jin) is a Brooklyn-based screenwriter and comedian. He’s a former PBS Kids Writing for Animation fellow and sales engineer at Microsoft, and has performed in videos for Disney+, NBC News Digital, Cosmo, Bleacher Report, the Harlem Film Festival, NY Sketchfest, and in a national TV spot for Cortizone-10. Dejen writes/performs sketch comedy monthly at UCB Theater, and produces ~6 sketches a month to his YouTube channel, @DejaDejaComedy, currently at 5k fickle followers.
