Hickey pruning Big Bird on set.
Michelle Hickey (b. 1976)[1] is currently a head puppet wrangler on Sesame Street and has also worked with the Muppet Workshop.
Credited as part of "the Green Team," Hickey served as a wrangler for Kermit the Frog's guest host stint on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Apart from many Sesame Street specials and videos, Hickey's credits also include Sesame Beginnings, Play with Me Sesame, Panwapa, and the non-Henson series Crank Yankers and It's a Big Big World.
She made a cameo appearance in Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf, appearing in a balcony seat next to Papa Bear and Baby Bear.
In a 2009 interview on her Muppet wrangling duties, Hickey called her position a "dream job" and discussed the amount of work that goes into keeping Big Bird in tip top shape.[2]
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- ↑ Below the Frame podcast episode 5
- ↑ Scholastic Kids Press Corps Blog. "Big Bird's Wrangler" by Aaron Broder (archived version).