Created & Written By: Halle Stanford & Dorien Davies

Cast: John Tartaglia & Dorien Davies

Directed By: John Tartaglia & Gavin Smith

Advisor: Dacher Keltner, PhD

Production Companies: Jim Henson Company, 7 Crow Stories

Partners: PBS Kids, The National Park Foundation, National Park Service, The Gambrell Foundation, and National Gallery

Synopsis: Roxy, a guitar-playing hedgehog, and Ronald, a fact-loving pig, are best friends on a musical walking adventure to discover WOWS in the world and experience AWE on this beautiful planet they call home. They’ve dubbed their epic journey a Wowsabout—a quest for fun, wonder, and connection.

Wowsabout will be the first preschool series to showcase the emotion of awe. Research shows that awe transforms us, making us feel part of something bigger and motivating connection, conversation, and caring-action. Roxy and Ronald will experiencie the 8 WONDERS OF AWE, as categorized by Dacher Keltner,and the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center: Transcendence, Big Ideas, Nature, The LifeCycle, Moral Beauty, Visual Design, Collective Effervescence, and Music.