Festival of Creative Operations 2024

Lynn Kestin Sessler is a Peabody, Webby and Parent’s Choice Award-winning Producer and Development Executive who animated series, digital, podcast and live action TV programming for PBS, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Sesame Street, and MTV Networks. Lynn is currently Creative Executive at Fablevision creating a slate of podcasts for kids and families. She specializes in adapting books to TV series and movies and creating content on multiple platforms.

On the TV front, Lynn is Webby award winning Executive Producer on Go, Dog, Go! on Netflix ,PBS’ The Cat in the Hat Knows A lot About That! And the PBS KIDS audience animated movie -ROCKET SAVES THE DAY.

In the podcast world, Lynn has created and produced a slate of Webby award-winning audio and video podcasts for Nickelodeon, including Dora's Recipe for Adventure, Avatar Braving the Elements and Goodnight Bedtime Stories. She has also produced 6 current audio series for Audible and created award-winning podcasts for PINNA (Highlights Hangout, and the Webby & Parent’s Choice honoured-Emma-Made Lemonade) and Noggin.

In the interactive space, Lynn was Supervising Digital Producer, on Ready Jet Go!, the Webby Award - honoured The Cat in the Hat Knows a lot About That!, WordGirl, and Sesame Street, among others On the audio side, overseen the creation and production of the Webby award winning shows from Nickelodeon including Avatar Braving the Elements, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Dora’s Recipe for Adventure, Nickelodeon’s Goodnight Bedtime Stories and more.

Lynn was elected to the National Board of Producers Guild (PGA)/CoChair of the New Media Council, in the TV Academy and, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Children’s Media Association and the Common Sense Media Board of Advisors.