Rickey Boyd

Official Bio

 *  from Sesame Workshop

 Rickey Boyd  ( b. 1964) is the Ame ric an Muppeteer  who portrayed  Rhubarb the Grouch  in A Sesame Street Christ mas Carol. His interest in animation & puppetry began at an early age. At 11, he & 1 of his friends produced their own crude TV puppet shows at a local cable access station & experimented w/ 8 mm animated short films.

Most recently he has performed Cookie Monster's Grandma for Sesame Workshop 's Sesame Beginnings, Scooter & Crazy Harry in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, & Waffle in Animal Jam. Other projects include Muppets from Space, "Dinosaurs", Muppet * Vision 3D, The Muppets at Walt Disney World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "The Jim Henson Hour", "Dog City" & "Song of the Cloud For est", as well as various videos & commercial projects. Also, in addition to Henson  Productions , Rickey has performed lead characters for The Nashville Network's Peppercorn Productions.

Rickey Boyd continues to perform for Henson  & works as an animator & director for Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio in Nashville, Tenn. There, he designs & directs animations for clients such as Sesame Street, among others. He lives outside Nashville w/ his wife Judy & their kids Emily & Andrew.

Muppeteer Credits

 * Sesame Street
 * The Jim Henson Hour: Laughing Boy ("Dog City"), Aart ("Song of the Cloud For est")
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splinter ( facial assistant)
 * The Muppets at Walt Disney World
 * Dinosaurs: Baby Sinclair ( Muppetry occasionally during last season ), Decker ( face ), Ethyl Phillips ( occasionally,  Muppetry  only ), Parish ( face ), Pearl Sinclair ( face )
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II : The Secret of the Ooze
 * Big Bag: Argyle McSock, Bag
 * Muppets from Space: Animal ( Muppetry ) Additional Muppets, cameo as Gonzo follower at Cape Doom
 * Animal Jam: Waffle
 * The Muppets' Wizard of Oz: Scooter & Crazy Harry
 * Sesame Beginnings: Cookie Monster's Grandma
 * Abby in Wonderland
 * A Sesame Street Christ mas Carol:  Rhubarb the Grouch 

Crew

 * A Sesame Street Christ mas Carol; writer