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Ryan Dillon (born May 25, 1988) is an American puppeteer who has worked as an ensemble muppeteer for the Jim Henson Company since 2005. He also played Cooper and Paul Ball for the interactive series Sesame Street TV for Xbox Kinect , and appeared on all four seasons of the new CBeebies and co-productions of Sesame Street , The Furchester Hotel ...
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Ryan Dillon (b. May 25, 1988) began puppeteering for Sesame Street in 2005, at the age of 17.
As a high school student, Dillon came to the attention of the Sesame producers when he went to an open call for puppeteers. Kevin Clash immediately assigned Dillon to participate in that year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where he performed Ernie on the Sesame Street float, and the taping of Season 37. Dillon received on-screen credit for his first two seasons, for which he assisted and played background roles. After a few years away from the series, he returned to the Sesame fold full-time when he was cast in the major roles of Cooper Monster, a motion capture Muppet, and Paul Ball for the Kinect Sesame Street TV video games.
In 2013, Dillon was selected to take over performing Elmo, following Kevin Clash's departure. He made his first public appearance as Elmo at the White House Easter Egg Roll and has continued to play the character in all forms of media. Dillon's work as Elmo has received Daytime Emmy nominations in 2017 and 2021. In 2020, he won the award for "Outstanding Principal Performance in a Daytime Program" for the special Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration, in which he took on the classic Muppets Don Music and Lefty the Salesman. In addition to performing, Dillon has directed several seasons of the short-form series, My Sesame Street Friends.
Outside of his Muppet work, Dillon's main project is co-producing puppet web videos with frequent collaborator Mark Gale under the banner The DillonGale Idiots. He previously formed a short-lived puppet building business with Patrick Holmes in the late 2000s. Dillon's early credits include puppeteering Dorsel in the original off-Broadway run of John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean, and puppeteering the title character for the Nickelodeon webseries Ask Sylvia. Through the O'Neill Puppetry Conference, Dillon appeared and worked on productions by Ronald Binion, Terry Lee, Emily Perl Kingsley and others.
•Sesame Street: Elmo (beginning in 2013) and others...
•2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Ernie (puppetry only)
•2006 Macy's Parade: Hoots (puppetry only)
•Garden State Film Festival: "How to Get to Sesame Street" puppet workshops, March 24th, 2007
••Kraft MilkBite commercials: Mel the MilkBite
•••Kinect Sesame Street TV: Cooper, Paul Ball
•My Sesame Street Friends (framing scenes)
•My Abby (first and second series)
•My Sesame Music (first series)
•My Cookie Monster (second series)
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Ryan Dillon is the performer of Elmo and other Sesame Street characters, such as Felix the Chicken, Don Music and Lefty the Salesman. He also designs, builds and directs puppets for Sesame Workshop and other projects.
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Ryan Dillon is a Philadelphia-born actor and puppeteer who performs as Elmo on Sesame Street and other shows. He was born on May 25, 1988 and has won four awards and received two nominations for his work.
