Deborah Forte

Deborah Forte is an American award-winning producer of children's television series and movies, websites and digital media including Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, WordGirl, Maya & Miguel, I Spy, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Golden Compass and Astroblast. She created Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc.

Forte began her career in publishing at Viking Press in 1976 before joining Scholastic Productions in 1984 as VP of new business development.

Forte became President of Scholastic Media in 1995 and is the lead creative and business executive overseeing all media production including two production studios (Weston Woods and Soup2Nuts), Scholastic Interactive, Scholastic Audio Books and Scholastic Media Marketing and Consumer Products. Forte formed Scholastic Entertainment, a part of Scholastic Media, in 1997.

At Scholastic, Forte has produced over 300 productions, which includes turning best-selling Scholastic book series Clifford the Big Red Dog, Dear America, I Spy, The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, Animorphs and The Baby-Sitters Club into some of the longest running children's TV series.

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