Sunday Story Time with Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aroson (creators of Peg + Cat)

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Ages 4-8

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Come celebrate the newest installment in the Peg + Cat series, which inspired an Emmy Award winning animated TV series.  Creators Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aroson will lead the group in song with their ukulele.

About Peg + Cat: The Pizza Problem:

Peg + Cat is the Emmy Award–winning animated TV series created by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson and produced by The Fred Rogers Company. It was named Best New Series at the 2015 Kidscreen Awards.

It’s opening day for Peg’s Pizza Place! Peg and Cat are excited to take their first order—from the Teens!—only to learn that some of their customers want a whole pizza while one of them wants half a pie. How can Peg and Cat make half a pie when they don’t know what half is? Luckily, Ramone and Mac are there to help, with a slice up the middle of the pie. As more customers come in, things get entertaining, with Peg singing a jazzy song and Cat doing a dance. But soon there’s another problem: four orders, but only two and a half pizzas left. Peg is totally freaking out—until Cat reminds her that when it comes to halves and wholes, it’s all in how you slice it.

About the Creators:

Jennifer Oxley was born in Hollywood, California, and caught the filmmaking bug early—she made her first film at the age of seven. Since then she has directed fifteen short films for Sesame Street, as well as the award-winning adaptation of Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee’s children’s book Please, Baby, Please. Her short film The Music Box was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent children’s film collection. Her work in children’s television includes directing and artistic credits. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award for her role as director on Little Bill, and she created the look and animation style of Wonder Pets!, which won an Environmental Media Award and the prestigious Japan Prize. Most recently Jennifer Oxley teamed up with Billy Aronson to create the hit PBS KIDS animated series Peg + Cat. Peg + Cat is the Emmy Award–winning animated TV series created by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson and produced by The Fred Rogers Company. It was named Best New Series at the 2015 Kidscreen Awards.

Billy Aronson’s one-act plays have been produced in eight Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathons and published in six volumes of The Best American Short Plays as well as in Broadway Play Publishing’s Funny Shorts. His full-length plays have premiered at Playwrights Horizons, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the San Francisco Playhouse, and 1812 Productions. His writing for the musical theater includes the original concept and additional lyrics for the Broadway musical Rent and the book for the Theatreworks USA musical Click, Clack, Moo. With artist Jennifer Oxley he created Peg + Cat, an animated PBS KIDS series that won three Emmy Awards in its first season. With his wife, Lisa Vogel, he created Jake and Anna, their animated offspring.

Peg + Cat is the Emmy Award–winning animated TV series created by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson and produced by The Fred Rogers Company. It was named Best New Series at the 2015 Kidscreen Awards.