Ryan Dillon (Elmo)
Ryan Dillon is the Sesame Street Muppet performer of everyone’s favorite furry red monster, Elmo.
Ryan Dillon is the Sesame Street Muppet performer of everyone’s favorite furry red monster, Elmo. Inspired by Jim Henson since childhood and encouraged by his family and teachers, Dillon built his own original puppet characters and trained himself in the Muppet style of performance.
He was asked to join the cast of Sesame Street during his senior year of high school, making him a resident on the “longest street in the world” for the past 17 years. Dillon’s Daytime Emmy Award-winning work as Elmo can be seen globally with appearances on shows including virtually every late night and daytime talk show, as well as BBC’s The Furchester Hotel, toys, apps, live shows, and much more. In addition to performing Elmo, Dillon performs a new Sesame Street Muppet, Felix the Chicken, as well as Sesame fan favorites Don Music and Lefty the Salesman, not to mention countless cows, monsters, talking foods, and more. His puppetry work can be seen in national commercials and other television shows including work for The Jim Henson Company and Disney’s Muppets. He has also served as director for material for Sesame Street and when he’s not working on the Street, Dillon is a director, puppet designer, and puppet consultant for other puppetry projects. He also designs, builds and performs several original characters for his own puppet work at DillonGale Studios, LLC.
