Bartholow with her puppet Squealer the Rat in 1979
Puppeteer Cheryl Bartholow served as an additional Muppet performer on The Muppets Take Manhattan.
A native of Minnesota, Bartholow founded the Pangolin Puppet Theater in 1974, performing puppet shows in the Twin Cities during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She also put together an early puppetry newsletter, The Puppet Post, which lasted only two issues, and built puppets for The Great Space Coaster. She later worked as a designer for Poko Puppets (along with Sal Denaro).