David Rudman
David Rudman (born June 1, 1963) is an American puppeteer, puppet builder, writer, director, and producer known for his involvement with the Muppets and "Sesame Street". Career. David Rudman has been a "Sesame Street" Muppet performer since 1985—currently performing Cookie Monster (since 2001), Baby Bear and the right head of the Two-Headed Monster (since 1992). He has received four Emmy nominations as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his work on "Sesame Street". Rudman has also directed several web videos for "Sesame Street" such as "Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live" and "Conversations  with Bert". He has performed in numerous television shows and specials including "Saturday Night Live", "The Colbert Report", "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "The Muppets", where he performed characters originally portrayed by Richard Hunt, such as Scooter, Janice, Bobby Benson and Wayne. His film credits include "The Muppets Take Manhattan", "Labyrinth", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "A Muppet Christmas Carol", "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland", "The Muppets" and "Muppets Most Wanted". Following the departure of Steve Whitmire in 2016, he became Beaker's new performer in 2017. Spiffy Pictures. Spiffy Pictures is a television production  company that started in 2000 and founded by David Rudman, located in Chicago, that consists mainly of its most famous live-action comedy-adventure-musical television shows for Noggin, Disney Channel, HBO Max, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Nick Jr., and PBS. In addition to his work on "Sesame Street" and with the Muppets, Rudman is co-owner of Spiffy Pictures where he co-created, executive produced, directed and performed in "Jack's Big Music Show" (Noggin), "Curious Buddies" (Nick Jr.), "Bunnytown" (Disney Channel), "" (Warner Bros), "Frankie and Frank" (Nick Jr.), "Donkey Hodie" (PBS) and is the creator, executive producer, character  designer, director and voice director of the animated series "Nature Cat" on PBS, voicing several characters including Leo the Mammoth, Prospector Jones, Nevin, and the Seeker. Personal life. Rudman attended Highland Park High School and graduated in 1981. He has been a speaker at the school's biennial Focus on the Arts program since 2003. He attended college at the University of Connecticut. Rudman was the speaker at the 2005 graduation ceremony for the Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago.