Awards & Winners

Sarah Durkee

Sarah Durkee is a singer-songwriter, 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 literacy education series, Between the Lions, 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", "Arthur", "Wonder Pets", "Dora the Explorer", and "Lomax: The Hound of Music". She and Paul Jacobs collaborated on several songs for Meat Loaf, including the 1984 hit "Modern Girl." Both Durkee and Jacobs are veterans of the National Lampoon comedy troupe from the 1970s. 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 for her writing contributions to "Sesame Street" and Between the Lions, for both script and songwriting. She lives in New York City.

Awards by Sarah Durkee

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sarah Durkee.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Between the Lions

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song - Children's and Animation It's a p-h!
Between the Lions

2009


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series
Honored for : Between the Lions

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series Between the Lions

2008


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series
Honored for : Between the Lions

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Between the Lions
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series Between the Lions

2007


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song – Main Title and Promo
Honored for : Q Without U
(Between the Lions)

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song - Children's and Animation Q Without U
Between the Lions

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series Between the Lions

2004


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series
Honored for : Between the Lions

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Between the Lions
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series Between the Lions

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Between the Lions

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Between the Lions
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series Between the Lions

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street

1990


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition
Honored for : Sesame Street

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition Sesame Street