David Rudman

David Rudman (born June 1, 1963) is an American puppeteer, puppet builder, writer, director, and producer known for his involvement with the Muppets and Sesame Street.

This article is about the American puppeteer. For the wrestler and judoka, see David Rudman (wrestler).
David Rudman
Rudman at SXSW in 2015
Born (1963-06-01) June 1, 1963
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Puppeteer
  • puppet builder
  • writer
  • director
  • producer
Years active1981–present
Notable credit(s)
Children4

Career

David Rudman has been a Sesame Street Muppet performer since 1985—currently performing Cookie Monster, Baby Bear and the right head of the Two-Headed Monster. He has received four Emmy nominations as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his work on Sesame Street. Rudman has also directed several web videos for Sesame Street such as "Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live" and "Conversations with Bert". He has performed in numerous television shows and specials including Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Muppets, where he performed characters originally portrayed by Richard Hunt, such as Scooter, Janice, Bobby Benson and Wayne. His film credits include The Muppets Take Manhattan, Labyrinth, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Elmo in Grouchland, The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. Following the departure of Steve Whitmire in 2017, he became Beaker's new performer.

Spiffy Pictures
Spiffy Pictures
IndustryTelevision production
Founded2000 (2000)
ProductsTelevision programs

Spiffy Pictures is a television production company that started in 2000 and founded by David Rudman, located in Chicago, that consists mainly of its most famous live-action comedy-adventure-musical television shows for Noggin, Disney Channel, HBO Max, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Nick Jr., and PBS.

In addition to his work on Sesame Street and with the Muppets, Rudman is co-owner of Spiffy Pictures where he co-created, executive produced, directed and performed in Jack's Big Music Show (Noggin), Curious Buddies (Nick Jr.), Bunnytown (Disney Channel), Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (Warner Bros), Frankie and Frank (Nick Jr.) and is the creator, executive producer, character designer, director and voice director of the animated series Nature Cat on PBS, voicing several characters including Leo the Mammoth, Prospector Jones, Nevin, and the Seeker.

Personal life

Rudman attended Highland Park High School and graduated in 1981. He has been a speaker at the school's biennial Focus on the Arts program since 2003. He attended college at the University of Connecticut.[1]

Rudman was the speaker at the 2005 graduation ceremony for the Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago.[2]

Filmography

References
  1. "Folder Contents".
  2. www.ilic.artinstitutes.edu Archived September 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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