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Halle Stanford is a Primetime and Children’s Emmy Award winner, a 2025 Silver Circle Children’s and Family Emmys inductee, and a twelve-time Emmy-nominated television producer whose work has helped shape the global landscape of children’s and family entertainment. Over a distinguished career spanning decades, she has created, developed, written, and showrun groundbreaking primetime and family series in both live-action and animation. During her 30 year tenure at The Jim Henson Company, which included serving as President of Television for 8 years, she guided some of the industry’s most beloved franchises, including Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Sid the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train, Slumberkins, Harriet the Spy, Pajanimals, and Bear in the Big Blue House. Her projects have been sold to leading platforms such as Netflix, Apple TV, PBS, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Warner Bros., Hulu, BBC, CBC, and Cartoon Network, earning more than one hundred awards and international honors.

Now the founder of 7 Crow Stories, Halle continues to champion imaginative, inclusive, and educational storytelling that inspires young audiences worldwide. In 2025, her company launched the YouTube series The Monty Pickle Show, and Halle expanded her partnership with The Jim Henson Company by co-creating the PBS KIDS series Wowsabout and executive producing Lore Olympus for Amazon MGM Studios. She collaborates closely with writers, artists, and curriculum experts to ensure her work meets the highest creative and developmental standards. In addition to producing, she co-authored the Bloomsbury children’s series Jim Henson’s Enchanted Sisters and writes the Substack Little Producer on the Prairie, sharing insights on the craft of storytelling. A mentor, frequent speaker, and dedicated industry leader, Halle serves on multiple advisory and professional boards and remains committed to fostering creativity, community, and meaningful impact through the transformative power of television.