Luis Santeiro

Luis G. Santeiro (b. October 9) is a Cuban-American playwright and television writer who was a member of the Sesame Street writing staff from 1978 to 2020. In this role he has shared a number of Emmys won for Best Writing in a Children's Series. 
His other work for Children's Television Workshop includes penning Sesame Street, Special, writing lyrics for a number of songs including "Dentist of Seville" and "Todos un Pueblo," and developing the Troubles the Cat segments on Big Bag.
Two of his common collaborators on Sesame Street songs include Joe Raposo and Stephen Lawrence.
Santeiro also created the bilingual 1970s television sitcom Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? and in August 2017 published his memoir Dancing with Dictators: A Family's Journey from Pre-Castro Cuba to Exile in the Turbulent Sixties.
==Writing Credits==
* Sesame Street, Special (pledge-drive special)
* The Alphabet Game (video)
* Sing-Along Earth Songs (video)
* Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years (video)
* A New Baby in My House (video)
* Rosita's Block Party (book)
* Fiesta (video)
* A is for Asthma (video)
* Big Bird's Sunny Day Camp Out (stage show)
* The Furchester Hotel
** Episode 109: Mystery Weekend
** Episode 121: Ballroom Dance Weekend
** Episode 122: Bebe Comes to Stay
** Episode 211: Space Alien Party
Sesame Street episodes written by Santeiro include:trusted source via User:Scarecroe
* Episode 1316
* Episode 1591
* Episode 1604
* Episode 1624
* Episode 1626
* Episode 1627
* Episode 1665
* Episode 1669
* Episode 1711
* Episode 1722
* Episode 1743
* Episode 1844
* Episode 1872
* Episode 1904
* Episode 1914
* Episode 1920
* Episode 1934
* Episode 1951
* Episode 1970
* Episode 1999
* Episode 2001
* Episode 2015
* Episode 2024
* Episode 2029
* Episode 2054
* Episode 2068
* Episode 2128
* Episode 2141
* Episode 2144
* Episode 2157
* Episode 2159
* Episode 2161
* Episode 2167
* Episode 2174
* Episode 2214
* Episode 2220
* Episode 2224
* Episode 2225
* Episode 2243
* Episode 2251
* Episode 2276
* Episode 2285
* Episode 2292
* Episode 2302
* Episode 2310
* Episode 2315
* Episode 2325
* Episode 2326	
* Episode 2332
* Episode 2334
* Episode 2344
* Episode 2363
* Episode 2368
* Episode 2370
* Episode 2381
* Episode 2382
* Episode 2392
* Episode 2393
* Episode 2400
* Episode 2409
* Episode 2416
* Episode 2429
* Episode 2434
* Episode 2446
* Episode 2456
* Episode 2465
* Episode 2468
* Episode 2481
* Episode 2488
* Episode 2498
* Episode 2513
* Episode 2520
* Episode 2531
* Episode 2534
* Episode 2535
* Episode 2539
* Episode 2574
* Episode 2575
* Episode 2584
* Episode 2585
* Episode 2610
* Episode 2613
* Episode 2623
* Episode 2649
* Episode 2691
* Episode 2697
* Episode 2699
* Episode 2707
* Episode 2716
* Episode 2728
* Episode 2747
* Episode 2776
* Episode 2801
* Episode 2818
* Episode 2853
* Episode 2928	
* Episode 2940
* Episode 2943
* Episode 2975
* Episode 3016
* Episode 3057
* Episode 3068
* Episode 3102
* Episode 3160
* Episode 3206
* Episode 3222
* Episode 3229
* Episode 3246
* Episode 3268
* Episode 3273
* Episode 3326
* Episode 3357
* Episode 3373
* Episode 3408
* Episode 3432
* Episode 3491
* Episode 3524
* Episode 3529
* Episode 3535
* Episode 3560
* Episode 3642
* Episode 3662
* Episode 3665
* Episode 3696
* Episode 3697
* Episode 3759
* Episode 3798
* Episode 3804
* Episode 3817
* Episode 3856
* Episode 3859
* Episode 3873
* Episode 3901
* Episode 3917
* Episode 3918
* Episode 3928
* Episode 4004
* Episode 4015
* Episode 4016
* Episode 4024
* Episode 4032
* Episode 4039
* Episode 4063
* Episode 4071	
* Episode 4090
* Episode 4105
* Episode 4121
* Episode 4134
* Episode 4142
* Episode 4153
* Episode 4163
* Episode 4169
* Episode 4179
* Episode 4195
* Episode 4200
* Episode 4209
* Episode 4213
* Episode 4219
* Episode 4222
* Episode 4260
* Episode 4262
* Episode 4276
* Episode 4277
* Episode 4280
* Episode 4322
* Episode 4403
* Episode 4415
* Episode 4506
* Episode 4515
* Episode 4523
* Episode 5132
==Sesame Street Song Credits==
AllOverTheWorld.jpg|"All Over the World"
Image:Airbip.jpg|"Air"
Image:4209b.jpg|"Amazing Awesome Seven Song"
File:2481a.jpg|"Amor"
File:BaaBamba.jpg|"Baa Baa Bamba"
File:2468d.jpg|"Baa with Me"
File:ElmoTelly.sillyanimals.jpg|"Baby Say It Loud"
File:2125d.jpg|"A Baby's Life"
Image:Song-Baile.jpg|"Baile"
File:Eight-Subtract.png|"Barnacle Subtraction"
Image:2475c.jpg|"Basura"
File:Bigbirdsong.jpg|"Big Bird's Song"
Image:Bigkidscry.JPG|"Big Kids Cry"
Image:2namesarebetter.jpg|"Bilingual Fruit Song"
Image:IFeelTotallyProud.jpg|"Birthday Emotions"
3326e.jpg|"Boy Blue Had a Little Lamb"
File:2393b.jpg|"Break Out of Your Shell"
File:1872a.jpeg|"Buenos Dias"
2251c.jpg|"Cabbage Soup"
Image:4213b.jpg|"Camouflage Carla"
Image:E&BMechanics01.jpg|"Car Mechanics Song"
File:Charmin.jpg|"Charmin' (song)"
File:2585e.jpg|"Chorus of Insects"
File:3246c.jpg|"Clucky Clucky Chicken"
3068d.jpg|"Come to the Window"
Image:Congasong.JPG|"Conga Counting Song"
Crackingnuts.jpg|"Cracking Nuts"
Image:Band-dididrops.jpg|"D Duah Duah"
File:DaDon%27tWalk.jpg|"Da Don't Walk
Image:ItSoonGetsDone.jpg|"Daddy Helps with the Dishes"
3642d.jpg|"Dance, Dance, Dance"
Image:FelicidadesDany.jpg|"Danny's Birthday"
Image:DentistofSeville.jpg|"Dentist of Seville"
3187x.jpg|"Different"
2975c.jpg|"A Different Kind of Singing"
Image:Differentyetthesame.jpg|"Different Yet the Same"
Image:Celina.Jelly.jpg|"Do the Jelly"
Image:FireWolf.jpg|"Don't You Go Back In"
Image:2285-DreamTeam.jpg|"The Dream Team"
File:Captain-Eight.png|"Eight is Great (Elmo the Musical)"
Image:3136j.jpg|"Elbows and Knees"
Image:Moon.elmo-lavender.jpg|"Elmo and the Lavender Moon"
Image:Elmo4Ducks.jpg|"Elmo's Ducks"
File:4716c.png|"Elmo's Plant Song"
File:4277d.png|"Falling Leaves"
1449c.jpg|"Feathered Friends"
Image:Rosita.Fiesta.jpg|"Fiesta"
Image:4163g.jpg|"Five Sock Conga
Image:4195f.jpg|"The Flapping Song"
Image:4222d.jpg|"Floating on Air"
File:4403a.png|"Flower Show Song"
2535a.jpg|"Forty Miles"
File:TalkLikeNatasha.jpg|"The Gaga Father"
File:GiftOfToothpaste.jpg|"Gift of Toothpaste"
File:3268d.jpg|"Girl of La Mancha"
1357c.jpg|"A Grouch Ballad"
File:2159f.jpg|"Grouch Melody"
Image:2776 05 Grouchelot.jpg|"Grouchelot"
Image:Song-Grouchology.jpg|"Grouchology"
Image:Vegetables.jpg|"Grow High Grow Low"
File:2776_03a.jpg|"Grumble Grumble"
Image:TheHeartofaFrog.jpg|"Heart of a Frog"
Image:HaceFrio.jpg|"Hace Frio!"
2716d.jpg|"Happy Trashing"
File:3524i.jpg|"Have I Told You?"
Captain-Heave.png|"Heave Ho"
Image:Split_screen_home.jpg|"Home to Me"
File:Ullman1.jpg|"Honk Ding Quack Quack Game"
Image:AbbyBroccoliSong.jpg|"Hurray-Hurrah for Broccoli"
3901d.jpg|"I Don't Wanna Sing Song"
3559-CS.jpg|"I Feel Happy"
Image:4200f.jpg|"I Finally Saw a Rainbow"
File:I-Say-Banana.jpg|"I Say Banana"
File:4515f.png|"I Will Always Come Back"
File:2265h.jpg|"I Wish I Were a Postcard"
Image:Moon.cookie.jpg|"If Moon Was Cookie"
File:4615c.png|"I'm a Beast"
File:1459-ImFlying.jpg‎|"I'm Flying"
Image:Kermitsongit'salive.jpg|"It's Alive"
File:Folge2533-9.jpg|"King Sneer"
File:3529c.jpg|"Kuku's Song"
File:SamRamey.LToreador.jpg|"L Is for Low"
File:3990p.jpg|"Library Song"
Image:Ernieplant.jpg|"Little Plant"
File:LookNFlap.png|"Look 'n Flap"
File:4602b.png|"Look for the Slime"
File:4142d.jpg|"Look, There's Zero Bananas"
Image:Lookthroughthewindow.jpg|"Look Through the Window" (Spanish lyrics)
2161b.jpg|"Lullaby the World"
Image:Mangotango.jpg|"The Mango Tango"
Image:3164zc.jpg|"Martian Family (Yip Yip Song)"
File:Drawingthingsmelove.jpg|"Me Draw Cookie"
Image:2096m.jpg|"Me and My Chair"
File:1722a.jpg|"The Milkshake Shake"
File:4909g.png|"The Monster Wash"
File:3357c.jpg|"Moon 'Round the Earth
Image:Muevete.jpg|"Muevete"
Image:Song-Musica.jpg|"Musica"
3901g.jpg|"Musical Menu"
2574-D2.jpg|"My Baby's Going to Have a Baby"
File:4802f.png|"My Favorite Sneakers"
Tellyspacefriend.jpg|"My Outer Space Friend"
Khome.polliwog.jpg|"My Polliwog Ways"
File:2315_04.jpg|"Natasha's Up-A-Bye"
Image:2292b.jpg|"Naughty Door Opera"
Image:Frieda.jpg|"New Baby"
File:2468a.jpg|"New Menu"
2325d.jpeg|"Nimi Nami Nomi"
NoMeGusta.jpg|"No Me Gusta"
Image:4209e.jpg|"The Number Siete Rumba"
Image:Congacountingsong.jpg|"Numero Comparsa"
File:Denycegraves.jpg|"Operatic Lullaby"
File:4724f.png|"Papí's Song"
File:Lookatapaperclip.jpg|"The Paperclip"
File:Song.Tothevet.jpg|"Pet at the Vet"
File:QuieroJugar.jpg|"Quiero Jugar"
File:4506d.png|"Quince"
Image:Recyclesongcartoon.jpg|"Recycling Blues"
File:RhymeOut.jpg|"Rhyme Out"
File:RhymesForMando.png|"Rhymes with Mando"
File:4322c.png|"Rocco's Friendship Song"
4016j.jpg|"Sesame Chicken Dance"
File:SSMuppetGroup.jpg|"The Sesame Street Alphabet"
Image:4209c.jpg|"Seven Chickens Dance"
Image:4209f.jpg|"Seven S Things Song"
File:1670b.jpg|"She Brings Out the Grouch in Me"
File:SimpleClappingSong.jpg|"Simple Clapping Song"
2584b.jpg|"Sing It Out, Baby"
File:2963-C10.jpg|"Singing in the Shower"
File:4134-JalopySong.jpg|"Sloppy Jalopy"
File:Vlcsnap-2018-03-08-17h18m11s930.png|"Snuffle Lullabye"
Image:SnuffleShuffle.jpg|"The Snuffle Shuffle"
2029b.jpg|"Snuffy's Song"
Image:SongoSong.jpg|"Songo's Song"
Image:Southamericanway.JPG|"South America Way"
File:SpanishMeEnglishMe.png|"Spanish Me, English Me"
Image:TakingAPicture.jpg|"Taking a Picture"
Image:PlacidoTelephone.jpg‎|"The Telephone Opera"
File:Vlcsnap-2018-03-08-16h54m57s948.png|"Telly's Greeting Song"
Image:4124zc.JPG|"Telly's Lunch"
File:3529g.jpg|"Telly's Pagliacci"
3901e.jpg|"Telly's Triangle Song"
ThatsMusic.jpg|"That's Music"
Image:2759j.jpg|"Todos un Pueblo"
Image:TortelliniSong.jpg|"The Tortellini Song"
2535d.jpg|"Tweet For Your Birdseed"
File:4403g.png|"Unique Song"
File:3524h.jpg|"Up and Down Song"
File:4032d.jpg|"The Weird Animal Song"
File:2159g.jpg|"What a Day That Was"
Image:WhatIsFriendOriginalVersion.jpg|"What is Friend?"
File:3057g.jpg|"When I Grow Up (song)"
File:CountWoodchuck.jpg|"The Woodchuck Song"
File:WordsInMe.jpg|"Words in Me"
Image:WriteYourName.jpg|"Write Your Name"
File:2610-XTrain.jpg|"X Train"
2141c.jpg|"Yodeling"
Image:Randytravis.jpg|"You Gotta Ask Some Questions"
Image:Spanishoftheday.zanahoria.jpg|"Zanahoria"
File:4142b.jpg|"Zero Means You've Got Nothing"
3901f.jpg|"Zero's Song"
File:ZoomZoom.png|"Zoo Zoom Zoom"
File:CeliaCruzZunzun.jpg|"Zunzun"
==Sources==
==External links==
*Que Pasa USA? Profile
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