Philippe (back right) with Cookie Monster and Sebastiano Ricci.
Fergie L. Philippe is an actor and puppeteer onstage and screen. His notable credits include appearing in the Broadway production of Hamilton (as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison) and the 2023 Lincoln Center staging of Camelot (as Sir Sagramore).
Philippe appeared as an extra in the 2025 Sesame Street special Cookie Monster's Bake Sale: Block Party, seen in the concluding crowd scene at the bake sale.
His theatrical puppet work includes the 2023 show Anika's Elephants (developed by Annie Evans, Martin P. Robinson, and Pam Arciero) and the Muny's 2024 production of The Little Mermaid (directed by John Tartaglia). Onscreen, he has appeared in The Good Fight, The Gilded Age, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He is also a co-producer of the annual 54 Celebrates the Muppet Christmas Carol at Feinstein's/54 Below.