The following is a compilation of known Sesame Street Live performers, between 1980 and present. Little biographical information is known about most, although some who went on to greater fame have their own articles.
Apparently, performers must watch hundreds of episodes of the show before performing.[1]
Carmella Adams[]
- 2008-2009: Ernie in Elmo Makes Music (January-March only)
Christie Anstine[]
A San Jose, California resident, Anstine is a former dance teacher who hopes to eventually instruct in the inner-city.[2] One of her first major stage roles was the March Hare in a production of Alice in Wonderland.[1]
- 2007-2008: Count von Count in Super Grover! Ready for Action arena tour[1]
- 2008-2009: Count Von Count / Cookie Monster in Everyone Makes Music theatre tour
Justin Alesna[]
- 2008-2009: Big Bird in When Elmo Grows Up
Samantha Aramal[]
- 2011-2012: Rosita/Count Von Count in Elmo's Super Heroes
D.J. Arnott[]
- 2013: Baby Bear and Rosita in Make a New Friend
Joseph J. Baez[]
From Mount Holly Township, New Jersey.
- 2012: Baby Bear and Mr. Noodle in 1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends[3]
Ryan Bentez[]
From Cinnaminson, New Jersey. He began with the cast in 2007.[4]
- 2007-2009: Big Bird in Super Grover! Ready for Action
- 2011-2012: Big Bird in Elmo's Super Heroes![5]
- 2013: Big Bird and Telly Monster in Make a New Friend
Leslie Bowen[]
A native of the Cinncinnati area, formerly a Point Park University student.
- 2004-2006: Big Bird in Elmo's Coloring Book
- 2006-2007: Big Bird in Everyone Makes Music[6]
- 2010-2012: Big Bird in 1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends[7]
Allyson Best[]
Previously worked in at Busch Gardens Williamsburg with Sesame characters and in crew capacities, and joined VEE for Hello Kitty's Supercute Friendship Festival.[8][9]
- 2016: Rosita in Let's Dance
Gavan Boyle[]
- 1991: Big Bird in Silly Dancing
Devon Wycovia Buchanan[]
- 2007: Cookie Monster in When Elmo Grows Up[10]
Terrence Bynum[]
- 2007-2009: Telly Monster in Super Grover! Ready for Action
Gena Byrd[]
- 2013: Grover in Make a New Friend
Krystal Caldwell[]
A native of Greensville, Pennsylvania.[11]
- 2008-2009: Grover and Baby Bear in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour
Le'Von Campbell[]
LeβVon Campbell began his training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, later performing with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and The Flocks of the George Faison Universal Dance Experience. He performed on Soul Train and in the movie Fame. He also has performed at Tokyo Sesame Place.By spring 1991, he was the performance director for Silly Dancing.
Octavia Campbell[]
At age 19 in March 1991, she was the youngest member of the troupe.before becoming a performer on tour she was the nanny for Donna-Lynne Dalton's son, CJ
- 1991: Oscar the Grouch in Silly Dancing
Tim Caouette[]
- 2008-2009: Oscar the Grouch in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour
Ryan Caudill[]
- 2011-2012: Super Grover in Elmo's Super Heroes
Arlee Chadwick[]
- 2007-2008: Rosita in When Elmo Grows Up, west coast tour (May-June only)
- 2008-2009: Grundgetta/Medium Understudy in Elmo Makes Music
Joseph Christianson[]
- 2008-2009: Bert in Elmo Makes Music
Patti Coffin[]
Graduated from Temple University in 1999 with BBA in Marketing and from La Salle University in 2009 with a BSN in Nursing. Currently working as a Surgical and Trauma ICU Nurse.
- 1989-1990: Baby Kermit in Muppet Babies Live!
- 1990-1994: Elmo in Sleeping Birdie
- 1994-1995: Elmo in When I Grow Up
Dani Cohen[]
- 2007-2009: Roxie Marie in Super Grover! Ready for Action
Jessica Conlon[]
- 2013: Abby Cadabby in Make a New Friend
Camie Cooperman[]
- 1988: Granny in Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show
Todd Alan Crain[]
- Sam the Postman in 1-2-3 Imagine!
Jamie Lyn Critelli[]
Jamie Lyn Critelli has a bachelor's degree in dance from the University of Buffalo, studied at La Sorbonne in Paris and The Dancing Pointe in New York. The 2008-2009 tour is her third year with VEE, she performed in When Elmo Grows Up and My Little Pony Live: "The Worldβs Biggest Tea Party. She's performed in over 75 cities in 40 states.
- 2008-2009: Prairie Dawn, Elmo understudy in Elmo Makes Music[12]
Michael Cross[]
- Tall understudy and Cookie Monster, Save Our Street
- Cookie Monster, Big Bird and the ABCs
- Cookie Monster, Big Bird's Sesame Street Story
Donna-Lynne Dalton[]
She is recording secretary for Teamsters Local 385, the union representative for characters at Walt Disney World, from at least December 1998 to present. Was the Actor's Equity Union Deputy on the tours. Studied at Temple University, George Meany Labor College, Phil Black Studio and a scholarship to New York Academy of Theatrical Arts. Performed the tap trax for several tours
the original Grundgetta in Silly Dancing
starting touring in 1983 in Missing Bird Mystery and was the tour baby
followed by Save Our Street, Big Bird and the ABCs, 10th Anniversary Tour, Around the World
- 1988: Prairie Dawn in Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show
- played Ernie and Honkers at Sesame Place
- toured with Snoopy's World of Magic and then went to Disney World to play Kermit the Frog and Disney characters
Natalie Davis[]
- 2007 (fall): Rosita in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008 (spring): Grundgetta in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008-2009: Grundgetta in When Elmo Grows Up
Lionel Douglass[]
- 1980-1981: Big Bird and a constable in A Sesame Street Mystery: The Case of the Missing Rara Avis.
- 1981-1982: Big Bird, unknown production
- 1982-1983: Big Bird, unknown production
- 1983-1984: Big Bird, unknown production
- 1984-1985: Big Bird, unknown production
- 1985-1986: Big Bird, unknown production
Rachel Dresner[]
- 2013: Evie in Make a New Friend
Jenny DuMars[]
- 2009-2010: Tour performance director, Elmo Grows Up[1]
Becky DuVarny[]
She has a bachelorβs degree in dance and arts for children from Brockport State College.
- 2009-2010: Abby Cadabby in Elmo's Green Thumb[13]
Brandyn Dyke[]
- 2011-2012: Cookie Monster/Oscar the Grouch in Elmo's Super Heroes[14]
Kristen Ejbisz[]
Grew up in Buffalo, New York.[15]
- 2007-2008: Oscar the Grouch in When Elmo Grows Up (August-October only)
Christopher Ellis[]
By 2011, he had been on tour for nine years.
- 2007-2008: Big Bird in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008-2009: Big Bird in Elmo's Green Thumb[16]
- 2011-2012: Big Bird in Elmo Makes Music
Rasheem Ford[]
- 2014: Jordan in Let's Dance!
Christina Fortney[]
- 2013: Elmo in Make a New Friend
Emily Frazier[]
- 2012-2013: Zoe in Can't Stop Singing
- 2013: Ernie in Make a New Friend
Grenoldo Frazier[]
Cindy Fereno[]
- 2011-2012: Zoe in Elmo's Super Heroes!
- 2013: Chamki and Oscar the Grouch in Make a New Friend
Lisa Marie Fulton[]
- 2011: Ernie in Elmo Makes Music[17]
Matthew Furtado[]
- 2006-2007: Professor Art in Elmo's Coloring Book
Laura Gillespie[]
Previously a cast member at Sesame Place theme park, she is enrolled at Temple University, studying communication and anthropology.[18]
- 2009-2010: Abby Cadabby in When Elmo Grows Up[19]
Michelle Glapion[]
- 2008-2009: Oscar, a ladybug, a flower in Elmo's Green Thumb[20]
Raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, bachelor's degree in dance from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Danced on Dawson's Creek, at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and for My Little Pony Live.
Megan Godin[]
- 2009-2010: Abby Cadabby in Elmo Grows Up
She graduated from University of New Hampshire in 2008. As of 2011, she was a human in Barney Live in Concert β Birthday Bash!, and understudy to BJ.[2]
Cyndi Graves[]
Leora Greenburg[]
From Northampton, Mass., she is a part-time student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and previous performed in shows at Six Flags New England.
- 2010-2011: Elmo in Elmo's Healthy Heroes[3]
Alicia Grubb[]
- 2008-2009: Grover and Baby Bear in Elmo Makes Music (July only)
Keith Herrmann[]
- Mumford the Magician in Sleeping Birdie
- Snuffy and a Honker in Let's Be Friends
- Tall Understudy in Let's Be Friends
- Keith was also a truck driver in addition to performer.
Rebecca Hanson[]
- 2007-2008: Zoe in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008-2009: Prairie Dawn in When Elmo Grows Up
Jessica Heim[]
- 2012: Ernie/Kay in Elmo's Super Heroes
Claire Hinde[]
Profiles suggest Hinde was three inches too tall for a career as a ballet dancer, for which she had trained.
Stephen Hohendorf[]
- 2012: Telly in Elmo's Super Heroes
AJ Hughes (as Andrew Hughes)[]
NYC/Tour: Irving Berlinβs White Christmas (1st Natβl),[25] Hello, Dolly! starring Sally Struthers,[26] Rodgers + Hammersteinβs Cinderella, 42nd Street, Rock of Ages (Franz Klinemann), NY City Center.
TV: Encore! (Disney+), Spirit Contemporary (TBN)[27]
AJ currently resides in Louisville, KY.[28]
- 2006: Count von Count in Elmo's Coloring Book
- 2006-2007: Grover in Elmo Makes Music[29]
Chelsey Anne Hughes[]
From Wexford, Pennsylvania, and studied business at the University of North Carolina. Her height, 4' 10", often excluded her from roles.[30] She was Young Kim in the touring production of Show Boat, alongside Happy Days star Tom Bosley.[31]
- May 2011-2012: Elmo in Elmo's Healthy Heroes
Juan Iglesias[]
- 1980: Cookie Monster in A Sesame Street Mystery: The Case of the Missing Rara Avis
Kyle Igneczi[]
Kyle Igneczi is an actor and puppeteer from Elyria, Ohio who is currently based out of New York City. He designs and builds puppets for Fisticuff Puppets and is the co-founder of Imaginary Trends (an internet-based performance group).
While on the road, Igneczi has created a travelogue of his adventures using a puppet character he created named Yancy. Some of his experiences can be found at puppetFix.com.
Igneczi had performed at Sesame Place, as Oscar/Hoots/Bert/Count/Telly in the Rock Around the Block Parade, as Oscar and all puppets in Abby Cadabby's Treasure Hunt, and Kingfish in Elmo's World Live - Fish. He also was the principal male understudy for VEE tour Curious George Live!
- 2007-2008: Big Bird in Elmo Makes Music
- 2008-2009: Telly Monster in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2011: Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street Experience for Military Families (an international USO tour)
Carlos Irizarry[]
- 2013: Bert in Make a New Friend
Chikae Ishikawa[]
Derek Cooley Jackson[]
Jeffrey Johnson[]
- Elmo's Coloring Book
- Elmo! Ready for Action
- 2009-2010: Cookie Monster in When Elmo Grows Up!
- 2011-2012: Performance director for Elmo Makes Music[32]
LeVon Johnston[]
- Cookie Monster
- 1981-1985: Performance director for Around the World[33]
Matt Jones[]
Matt Jones, of Boston, Massachusetts, has a BFA in theatre from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has also toured with My Little Pony in 2007.[34] A native of Southboro, Jones was a regular with Foothills Theatre and Foothills Children's Theatre, and has also appeared at the Ogunquit Playhouse and the Worcester County Light Opera Company.[35]
- 2008-2009: Bert in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour
- 2010: Bert in Elmo's Green Thumb
Roger Kachel[]
- 1980: Ernie in A Sesame Street Mystery: The Case of the Missing Rara Avis
Pamela Kaminski[]
- 2007-2008: Roxie Marie/Small Understudy in Super Grover! Ready for Action
- 2008-2009: Zoe in When Elmo Grows Up (May-July only)
- 2011-2012: Zoe in Elmo Makes Music[36]
Bailey Kirwan[]
From Kenmore, New York,[37] graduate of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, majoring in dance. Attended her first SSL show at age 4. Her height is 5' 1".[38]
- September to season end 2011: Abby Cadabby in Elmo's Healthy Heroes!
- 2011-2012: Prairie Dawn in Elmo's Super Heroes!
- 2012: Tour Performance Director in Elmo's Super Heroes
Colleen Kreisel[]
- 2008-2009: Ernie in Elmo Makes Music (July-December only)
Karol Kristoff[]
- 1988: Ernie in Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show
Annemarie LaTulip[]
From Billerica, Massachusetts, LaTulip spent nearly eight years with the tour, before becoming a real estate agent. She returned to the tour after eight years, during a business slow down.[39]
- Prairie Dawn in Out of This World[40]
- 2001: Elmo in Sunny Day Camp Out
- 2011: Elmo in Elmo's Green Thumb
Amy Lachinsky[]
Kiera Leverton[]
- 2007-2008: Bert in When Elmo Grows Up (August-February only)
Peter Liciaga[]
- 1986: Swing (cover Herry, Grover, Cookie, Barkley) in Big Bird Goes Hollywood
Julia Mackenzie[]
From St. Louis.[41]
- 2010-2011: Kay in Elmo's Healthy Heroes
Carlos Martinez[]
- 2007-2009: Rosita in Super Grover! Ready for Action
- 2008-2009: Ernie in Elmo Makes Music (March-June only)
- 2010-2011: Super Grover in Elmo's Healthy Heroes
- 2011-2012: Grungetta in Elmo's Super Heroes
Jason Matney[]
- 2003-2004:
- 2004-2005:
- 2005-2006:
- 2006-2007:
- 2007-2008: Purple Honker in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008-2009: Purple Honker in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2009-2010: Orange Honker in Elmo's Green Thumb, understudy for Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Count von Count Telly
- 2010-2011: Purple Honker in Elmo's Healthy Heroes
- 2011-2012: Purple Honker in Elmo's Super Heroes
Kristin Ann Mazzulli[]
Kristin is currently dancing in Czarniak Tap Company (2013). A native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Mazzulli holds a B.S. in Education from Slippery Rock University (SRU). She double majored in Elementary Education and Dance. She has performed in various shows produced by Latshaw Productions. She continues to perform, teach and choreograph throughout the Pittsburgh area.
- 2007-2008: Ernie in Super Grover! Ready for Action, theatre and international tour
- 2008-2009: Grundgetta in Elmo! Ready for Action, theatre and international tour
- 2009 (May/June): Grover and Baby Bear in Elmo Makes Music, theatre tour
- 2009 - 2010: Ernie in 1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo and Friends!
Naeemah McCowan[]
A St. Louis native, she is 5 foot 1. Previously, she danced back to Amerie, when she was an opening act to Destiny's Child.[42]
- 2010: Elmo in Elmo's Green Thumb, alternate for Abby Cadabby
Noland McFarland[]
- Oscar the Grouch and Snuffy in Let's Be Friends
- 2004-2005: Telly Monster in Out of This World
Crystal Meyer[]
Previously, she played Prairie Dawn on a tour.
- 2016: Zoe in Make a New Friend[43]
Kevin Michale[]
According to China Daily: "As a professional dancer, Michale has been performing with Sesame Street for almost nine years. He played the role of Super Grover for four and a half years and Bert for three years before taking on his current part of Oscar."
- 2011: Oscar the Grouch in Elmo's Green Thumb, international tour[44]
Chris Mick[]
- 2006-2007: Baby Bear and Count von Count Elmo's Coloring Book
- 2007-2008: Bert in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008 (Fall): Count von Count in When Elmo Grows Up
Jessica Miller[]
- 2008: Elmo in Elmo! Ready for Action[45]
Casandra Mills[]
- 2007-2008: Prairie Dawn in When Elmo Grows Up, west coast tour
Janice Miuccio[]
- 2006-2007: Grundgetta in Super Grover! Ready for Action
- 2007-2008: Grundgetta in Everyone Makes Music
- 2008-2009: Purple Honker in Elmo's Green Thumb
Taylor Morgan[]
Taylor switched over to a My Little Pony Live! tour in 2006-2007, playing Minty.
- 2005: Bert in 1-2-3 Imagine!
- 2005-2006: Bert in Elmo's Coloring Book
- 2007-2008: Bert in Elmo Makes Music
- 2008-2009: Bert in Elmo's Green Thumb
- 2009-2010: Bert in Elmo's Green Thumb
Sheila Murphy[]
- 2007-2008: Grover and Baby Bear in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2009-2010: Baby Bear, Grundgetta, a beetle, a ladybug and Rosita in Elmo's Green Thumb[46]
Stan Nelson[]
Dawn Newman[]
She has a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College.
2006-2007: Kay/Live Performer in Super Grover! Ready for Action
Casey O'Keefe[]
She has a BFA from Hofstra University, 2009.
- 2010-2011: Sam the Mail Carrier in 1-2-3 Imagine![47]
Spencer Rose Oberman[]
- 2008-2009: Jenny and Rosita in Elmo Makes Music (July-December only)
Elizabeth Osborn[]
Osborn previously was Bedtime Bear in Care Bears Live: Caring and Sharing Friends and Spike the Dragon in My Little Pony Live!: The World's Biggest Tea Party. She was profiled in the babble article "5-Minute Time Out: The Girl in the Elmo Suit".
- 2007-2008: Elmo in Everyone Makes Music[48]
- 2008-2009: Roxie Marie in When Elmo Grows Up
Leesa Osborn[]
- Prairie Dawn in Let's Play School
Beverly Pajak[]
- 2006-2007:
- 2007-2008: Ernie in Elmo Makes Music
- 2008-2009: Zoe in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2009-2010: Ernie and a Ladybug in Elmo's Green Thumb[13]
Denise Pajak[]
- 2007-2009: Bert in Super Grover! Ready for Action
- 2013: Count von Count in Make a New Friend
Laura Percy[]
- 2008 (summer): Cast Swing for the Sesame Street Live USO Tour
- 2008-2009: Roxie Marie in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour, Spring only
Kelly Peters[]
Kelly Peters has danced since age 2, and was in the Zenon Dance Company in Minneapolis when cast for the show. She remembers being waved at by Prairie Dawn, when she attended a show as a child. Her mother is a dance director and teacher.[49]
- 2007-2008: Prairie Dawn[50] in unidentified show
- 2008-2009: Elmo in Elmo's Green Thumb
Taylor Radke[]
- 2013: Cookie Monster in Make a New Friend
Rile Reavis[]
- 2013: Honker in Make a New Friend
Yram Rivera[]
- 1999-2000: Elmo's Coloring Book[51]
- 2000-2001: Jodie in Big Bird's Sunny Day Camp Out
Moses Rodrigues[]
- 2008-2009: Grover and Baby Bear in Elmo Makes Music (August-May only)
Christofer T. Roseberry[]
Native to Middletown, Ohio, Christofer T. Roseberry performed for a year at La Comedia Dinner Theater located in Springboro, Ohio, before joining the cast of Sesame Street Live. His other credits include productions of West Side Story, Grease, and The Wizard of Oz. Roseberry began performing while in Miami University, leaving his communications major at age 20 to pursue an acting career.
- 2008-2009 (until March): Telly Monster and Mr. Noodle in Elmo Makes Music theatre tour
- 2008-2009 (March on): Honker and tall understudy (Big Bird, Bert, Cookie Monster, Count Von Count, Telly Monster, Grover, and Baby Bear) in Elmo Makes Music theatre tour
- Ryan Gillis, "βSesame Street Liveβ understudy makes music as many Muppets", Lisbon Morning Journal, April 26, 2009.
Ashley Rowberry[]
From Windsor, Ontario, Rowberry has been part of the city's dance and theatre communities since age 12, choreographing a number of musicals for Theatre Live.[52]
- 2008-2009: Rosita in When Elmo Grows Up
Kim Sanders[]
- 1998-1999: Bert in Elmo's Coloring Book
- 1999-2000: Grover in When I Grow Up
Caitlin Sanford[]
- 2008-2009: Elmo in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour, except for November and December
Thomas Sanford[]
He performed for Sesame Street Live from 1980-1986.
- Victor the Green Seedy Bird and Big Bird understudy in A Sesame Street Mystery: The Case of the Missing Rara Avis
- Big Bird, Herry Monster, Pink Honker in Around the World
Maggie Sarmiento[]
Has danced for RASA Dance Chicago, and MOVE Dance Company in St. Louis, and currently teaches dance.[53]
- 2007-2008: Rosita in When Elmo Grows Up (January-April only)
Kayleigh Shuler[]
- 2014: Riley in Let's Dance!
Jami Shapiro[]
- 2011-2012: Abby Cadabby in Elmo's Super Heroes!
- 2012: Prairie Dawn (Small Understudy) in Elmo's Super Heroes!
- 2013: Zoe in Make a New Friend
Caitlin Sharik[]
- 2011-2012: Bert in Elmo's Super Heroes
George Tommy Smith[]
- 2008-2009: Big Bird in Elmo Makes Music
Janel Somers[]
- 2007-2008: Jenny/Oscar in Everyone Makes Music[54]
- 2008-2009: Jenny/Rosita in Everyone Makes Music
Lisa Stanley[]
Antwaun Steele[]
He switched over to Barney Live in Concert β Birthday Bash! in 2010, performing the titular purple dinosaur. Prior to Sesame Street Live and Birthday Bash!, he had performed the aforementioned Barney in the Barney Home Video "Barney's Pajama Party" and on the non-VEE "Barney's Musical Castle" stage tour.
- 2007-2008: Count von Count in When Elmo Grows Up, west coast tour, November-June only
- 2008-2009: Cookie Monster in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour, spring only
Wendi Stoltzfus[]
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Studied musical theater at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, acting and music, Oklahoma City University.
- 2011-2012: Jenny and Rosita in Elmo Makes Music[36]
Jason Stump[]
Previously, he had performed in a show at Sesame Street Forest of Fun at Busch Gardens Williamsburg as Grover/Bert/Ernie/Cookie Monster.
- 2013: Rosita in Can't Stop Singing[55]
Diane Sulik[]
At various points, she was Bert, Oscar, the Amazing Mumford, The Count and Jodie.
- 1988-1989: Teenager in Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show
- 1989-1990
- 1990-1991
- 1991-1992
- 1992-1993
- 1993-1994
Buz Suraci[]
- 1980-1981: Oscar the Grouch and a constable in A Sesame Street Mystery: The Case of the Missing Rara Avis.
Amanda Sutliff[]
- 2007-2008: Baby Bear in Everyone Makes Music
- 2008-2009: Grover in Elmo's Green Thumb
- 2009-2010: Tour performance director for Elmo's Green Thumb[56]
Judy Swartz[]
Tiffany Taylor[]
- 2007-2008: Elmo in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008: Elmo (replacement) in When Elmo Grows Up
Taylor joined the cast of When Elmo Grows Up in July 2007, and claims that she can't see herself playing anyone other than Elmo, because of a "special bond" she has with him.[57]
Emily Turay[]
- 2003 (May/June): Baby Bear in 123...Imagine!
- 2003-2004: Baby Bear/Oscar the Grouch in Out of This World
- 2004-2005: Ernie in Out of This World
- 2005-2006: Grover/Medium Understudy in Elmo's Coloring Book
- 2007-2008: Ernie in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008-2009: Rosita in Elmo's Green Thumb
- 2009-2010: Grundgetta/Medium Understudy in 123...Imagine!...With Elmo and Friends
- 2010-2011: Tour performance director for 123 Imagine!
Chris Urban[]
- 2006-2007: Telly Monster in Elmo Ready For Action
- 2007-2008: Cookie Monster in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008 (fall): Cookie Monster in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2009 (spring): Count von Count in When Elmo Grows Up
Lori Land formally Lori Velazquez[]
- 2012: Abby Cadabby in Elmo's Super Heroes
- 2013: Elmo in Elmo's Super Heroes
Brandon Wagner[]
- 2018: Big Bird in Make Your Magic
Carolyn Wells[]
- 2016: Chamki and Oscar in Make a New Friend[58]
Kevin Wheeler[]
- 2008: Super Grover in Elmo! Ready for Action[59]
Angelo Williams[]
- 2007-2008: Telly Monster in When Elmo Grows Up
- 2008-2009: Telly Monster in Elmo Makes Music (March to June)
Debra Wilson[]
Performing with Sesame Street Live for six years, Wilson has taught for Dance Theatre of Harlem's Children's Program and at the The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Her credits include a touring show of The Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt and Mickey Rooney, an Austrian production of Porgy & Bess, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, as an elf for The Rosie O'Donnell Show Christmas Special, and the premiere of 1996 film 101 Dalmatians.
- 1991: Prairie Dawn in Silly Dancing
- Joan Harris Dancers guest instructor biography
Norma Woods[]
- 2007-2008: Oscar the Grouch in When Elmo Grows Up (October-June only)
Steven Yerardi[]
- 2007-2008: Orange Honker/Tall Understudy (Big Bird, Telly Monster, Mr. Noodle, Cookie Monster, The Count, Bert & Baby Bear) On Elmo Makes Music, East Coast Tour
- 2008-2009: Orange Honker/Tall Understudy (Big Bird, Telly Monster, Mr. Noodle, Cookie Monster, The Count, Bert, Baby Bear, Oscar the Grouch & Grover) (July to March) on Elmo Makes Music, Theater Tour
- 2010: Grover/Abuela/Uncle Grizzly (July-August) on 1-2-3 Imagine!, West Coast Tour
- 2011-2012: Purple Honker/Tall Understudy (Big Bird, Telly Monster, Mr. Noodle, Cookie Monster, The Count, Bert, Oscar, and Grover) on Elmo Makes Music, West Coast Tour
Christina Young[]
A native of Portersville, Pennsylvania.[11]
- 2008-2009: Ernie in When Elmo Grows Up, east coast tour
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