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Becoming a World-Class Film Puppeteer with Rickey Boyd

 01 Feb 2016 

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Rickey BoydRickey Boyd is a world-class puppeteer. Rickey’s long and distinguished career includes performing Grandma Cookie Monster for Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Beginnings”, Scooter and Crazy Harry in “Muppet’s Wizard of Oz”, and Waffle in “Animal Jam”. Other projects include “Muppets From Space”, “Dinosaurs The Series”, “Muppetvision 3D”, “Muppets at Disney World”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Song of the Cloud Forest”, as well as numerous videos and commercial projects.

Rickey continues to perform for The Jim Henson Company, as well as working as an animator and director for the multiple Emmy award winning Magnetic Dreams Studio. There, he designs and directs animations for clients such as Sesame Street, amongst others.

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