Tony Geiss

Tony Geiss is a staff writer and songwriter of Sesame Street, Madeline (Tv series) and related productions, he teams up with Judy Freudberg. Geiss conceptualized the Honkers (based on his own childhood habit of honking noses), Abby Cadabby and Ken Strawberry.

Geiss' early TV career was spend 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 Sesame Street Presents: 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. Freudberg and Geiss also wrote Madeline: Lost in Paris, again with Don Bluth. They three Academy Awards include Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song and Best Picture. He is also credited as head writer of for several Sesame Street home videos and Madeline (TV series).