Rickey Boyd

Rickey Boyd is the American "Muppeteer", who portrayed Rhubarb the Grouch in A Sesame Street Christmas Carol. His interest in animation and puppetry began at an early age. At 11, he and one of his friends produced their own crude TV puppet shows at a local cable access station and experimented w/ 8mm animated short films.

Most recently he has performed Cookie Monster's Grandma for Sesame Workshop's Sesame Beginnings, Scooter and Crazy Harry in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, and 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", and Song of the Cloud Forest, as well as various videos and commercial projects. In addition to Henson Productions, Rickey has performed lead characters for The Nashville Network's Peppercorn Productions.

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

Muppeteer credits

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