Sarah Durkee

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Sarah Durkee is a singer-songwriter, a television lyricist and scriptwriter, 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 and Jacobs have also been frequent musical contributors to Sesame Street, and they have 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 (she as an actor, he as music director). 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 won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2004 for her writing contributions to Between the Lions, and another in 2007, in collaboration with her husband Paul, for their song "Q Without U," also from Between the Lions.

[edit] External links

• Sarah Durkee at the Internet Movie Database
• Jacobs and Durkee, National Lampoon from Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site (April 20, 2002)