I-Comm Week - Speaker Bio

Joseph Summerhays
Faculty, Jacob Burns Film Center

Joe Summerhays specializes in children’s and adolescent entertainment and educational projects with a focus on animation, instructional design, and original programming. He is the author of 35 children's books, and designer of over 70 award-winning interactive children’s software titles.

From 1994 to 2000, Summerhays was creative director at Houghton Mifflin/Sunburst Technology.

He has won many awards including Newsweek’s Editor’s Choice Award and Good Morning America’s “Best Software for Kids.” Joe has produced creative properties for clients such as MTV, HBO, VH1, and AOL.

Summerhays is also a regular lecturer on animation in the Master's program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.