Traci Paige Johnson is an American animator and voice actor best known
for creating the Nick Jr. preschool television series, Blue's Clues
(1996â€"2006), its spin-off, Blue's Room (2004â€"2007), and the reboot
series, Blue's Clues & You! (2019â€"present).While a student at
Northwestern University, where she earned a degree in radio,
television, and film, Johnson began developing her "unique signature
style of cutout animation using construction paper and everyday
objects and textures". She was a freelance animator in the early 1990s
when cable television network Nickelodeon wanted to create a new
television show for preschoolers. She already had experience working
in children's television. In 1994, Johnson, along with producer Angela
Santomero and director Todd Kessler, which Nickelodeon executive Brown
Johnson called a "green creative team", created the series Blue's
Clues. According to writer Diane Tracy, Johnson, Santomero, and
Kessler did not possess traditional backgrounds of most producers of
children's programs, but "did possess an amazing combination of
talents, backgrounds, and personal attributes". Also, according to
Tracy, Johnson would "change the look of preschool children's
television". Johnson reported that she was cast as the voice of Blue,
the show's main animated character because out of the show's crew, she
sounded the most like a dog.While in high school, she was a member of
an award-winning student-produced comedy show, Beyond Our Control
which ran on the local NBC affiliate, WNDU-TV, at that time owned and
operated by the University of Notre Dame.She is married to Robert
Mowen (another Beyond Our Control alum) and has three sons: Thomas,
Oliver, and Emmet.
for creating the Nick Jr. preschool television series, Blue's Clues
(1996â€"2006), its spin-off, Blue's Room (2004â€"2007), and the reboot
series, Blue's Clues & You! (2019â€"present).While a student at
Northwestern University, where she earned a degree in radio,
television, and film, Johnson began developing her "unique signature
style of cutout animation using construction paper and everyday
objects and textures". She was a freelance animator in the early 1990s
when cable television network Nickelodeon wanted to create a new
television show for preschoolers. She already had experience working
in children's television. In 1994, Johnson, along with producer Angela
Santomero and director Todd Kessler, which Nickelodeon executive Brown
Johnson called a "green creative team", created the series Blue's
Clues. According to writer Diane Tracy, Johnson, Santomero, and
Kessler did not possess traditional backgrounds of most producers of
children's programs, but "did possess an amazing combination of
talents, backgrounds, and personal attributes". Also, according to
Tracy, Johnson would "change the look of preschool children's
television". Johnson reported that she was cast as the voice of Blue,
the show's main animated character because out of the show's crew, she
sounded the most like a dog.While in high school, she was a member of
an award-winning student-produced comedy show, Beyond Our Control
which ran on the local NBC affiliate, WNDU-TV, at that time owned and
operated by the University of Notre Dame.She is married to Robert
Mowen (another Beyond Our Control alum) and has three sons: Thomas,
Oliver, and Emmet.
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