Michelle Hickey

thumb|300px|Hickey pruning Big Bird on set.
Michelle Hickey (b. 1976)Below the Frame podcast episode 5 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.Scholastic Kids Press Corps Blog. "Big Bird's Wrangler" by Aaron Broder (archived version).
Image:Michellehickey.jpg|Michelle Hickey assists Big Bird on the set of Sesame Street.
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