Overview
Martin P. Robinson
Known For
Cookie Monster's Bake Sale: Back to School
Cookie Monster and celebrity host Yvette Nicole Brown help teams...
Elmo's Mindfulness Spectacular
Elmo's Mindfulness Spectacular! is a 43-minute Sesame Street special posted...
Jerry Nelson: A Celebratory Birthday Animatic
'Today (July 10) is Jerry Nelson's birthday! To celebrate, artist...
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and...
Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate
Part of Sesame Workshop's "Caring for Each Other" Initiative, Sesame...
Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown
There's a miracle on Sesame Street in this special holiday...
Biography
Martin P. Robinson (born March 9, 1954) is a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company. He originally built, designed, and performed the puppets for Little Shop of Horrors. He is perhaps best known for his work on Sesame Street. He has performed the characters of Telly Monster, Slimey the Worm, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Tony The Turtle on the show for more than 20 years. He also performed the character Riff on Allegra's Window, and was an animatronic puppeteer for Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the puppeteer responsible for training the puppeteers on Sesame Tree. He was born on March 9, 1954 in Dearborn, Michigan. Graduated from Brookfield East High School, in Brookfield, Wisconsin, suburb of Milwaukee. He was married to Annie Evans on August 9, 2008 on the set of Sesame Street, in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin P. Robinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia