As a producer, composer, ad executive and serial entrepreneur, Manhatpro founder, Joe Carroll has spent a lifetime innovating and challenging boundaries in music, media and education.

An award-winning composer, songwriter and lyricist, Carroll's work is known for its eclecticism and humor. He specializes in music for kids and is Composer/Lyricist for the Emmy nominated Kermit's Swamp Years (Columbia Tristar/Jim Henson: 2002) and Music Director for the TV series Zoom (PBS/WGBH: 1998-2003). As a producer, his work is characterized by technological sophistication and a willingness to work in unconventional settings. He's written and produced hundreds of songs for TV and film including award-winning projects for Disney, Nickelodeon, PBS, Sesame Workshop and The Jim Henson Company.

Born into the entertainment business and literally raised in a booking agency, Carroll grew up in the midst of the New York music scene. Surrounded by a Broadway Danny Rose cast of musicians, comedians, singers and entertainers he first performed professionally at age 12.

"I'm fortunate to have been involved in a number of successful collaborations that combine education and entertainment in innovative and compelling ways. In working with Jim Henson, Sesame Workshop, and WGBH, I have had the opportunity to work with an extraordinary group of people and learn the trick of balancing intensely personal creativity with the broadly collaborative process of film and television." - Joe Carroll

In 1981-1982, Carroll was a member of the highly innovative Timmy and the Ken Dolls. A hideous commercial failure, they were known for their complex multimedia performances that included a projectionist, tape operators and sound effects personnel.

As a music producer at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising (1982-1987), Joe earned a reputation for going to great lengths to create the sound for a project, recording in a church in Montreal, a cattle ranch in Oregon and in London at studios made famous by Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles. Projects included Toyota, L'eggs, Wendy's, Helene Curtis, Wrangler, General Mills, Nabisco and Proctor and Gamble. He launched his own music production company in 1988 and continued to produce commercial music for Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann-Erickson, Foote, Cone & Belding, Young & Rubicam and Ogilvy & Mather. Numerous awards including The London International Advertising award and several Clio nominations.

In 1996-1997, he was Supervising Sound Editor for Nickelodeon's "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss" (1996). Seuss used a variety of groundbreaking techniques to achieve complex integration of dialog, sound effects and music. In addition to serving as principal composer and musical director for the show, he supervised all audio post production in a 12-person music and sound department. The work included supervision of sound effects, dialog editing, music, sound design, foley, dialog replacement and final mix supervision for 20 unique half hour shows. Seuss won Writer's Guild, Bronze and Silver Telly awards and was nominated for several Emmys including Outstanding Children's Program.

His career highlights include performing with Zippy the Chimp, a tuxedo-clad chimpanzee whose skills included drinking bourbon and roller-skating, sometimes simultaneously. He was once offered a job to play guitar wearing a pig suit and sing songs about bacon in shopping malls.