David Rudman

Born:	June 1, 1963
Occupation:	Puppeteer
Years active:	1977-present

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. He is the current performer for Cookie Monster, Scooter, and Janice.

Christmas filmography

Production	Release	Character(s)
A Muppet Family Christmas	1987	Miss Piggy's Photographer
The Muppet Christmas Carol	1992	Rat Peter Cratchit Old Joe The Swedish Chef
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree	1995	Ned Mouse
Elmo Saves Christmas	1996	Baby Bear Humphrey Fat Blue Elf
Aliens in the Family: "A Very Brody Tweeznax"		Bobut
Elmo's World: Happy Holidays!	2002	Cookie Monster Baby Bear Orange Gold Caroler Jimbo
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol	2006	Cookie Monster
Elmo's Christmas Countdown	2007	Baby Bear Cookie Monster
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa	2008	Scooter Janice Additional Muppets
Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular	2013	Scooter Janice
Michael Bublé's 3rd Annual Christmas Special		Cookie Monster
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir	2014
The Furchester Hotel: "Monster Monster Day"
The Muppets: "Single All the Way"	2015	Scooter Janice
Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas	2016	Cookie Monster Two-Headed Monster (right-head)
The Furchester Hotel: "A Furchester Christmas"		Cookie Monster
Sesame Street: "Holiday at Hooper’s"	2020
Elmo's World: Winter Holidays
Sesame Street: The Nutcracker	2022
Mecha Builders: "Yip Yip Tree Tree" / "The Snowman Scarecrow"		Mecha Cookie Monster

External links

• Muppet Wiki: David Rudman