Tyler Bunch (Louie)
Tyler Bunch has been performing with Sesame Workshop since 1993; he is also a longtime performer with The Jim Henson Company (1997-present) and The Muppets™ (1999-present).
Tyler Bunch has been performing with Sesame Workshop since 1993; he is also a longtime performer with The Jim Henson Company (1997-present) and the Muppets (1999-2019).
His career has seen him in regional theater, Off-Broadway, the small screen, the silver screen, and now digital screens as puppeteer, actor/singer, and voice artist. Born in Tahlequah, OK, Bunch moved around quite a bit before settling in Connecticut in 2000 (He moved 27 times, living in Oklahoma, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and New York).
Bunch’s “big break” in the puppetry world came on the show Bear in the Big Blue House, where he performed Treelo, Pop, and Doc Hogg. He received an Emmy for his work as creative producer on the children’s literacy program Word World and was nominated for a directing Emmy for another PBS program, It’s A Big, Big World.
His work for Sesame Workshop has included Sesame Beginnings (Baby Cookie), The Electric Company (Jack Bowser), and Sesame Street, where he’s been a regular since Season 37, taking over Elmo’s father, Louie.
Bunch played Marshall in the feature film Finding Joy and can be seen in various other “fleshie” roles, appearing on The Tick (Amazon Prime), Uncoupled (Netflix), and an episode of The Penguin (HBO/MAX) to name a few. You can hear Bunch’s voice on several video games and animated properties, including YOKO, the English dub of Pokémon Horizons, and Sesame Workshop’s Foley and Friends podcast as Mikee. The highlight of his career has been helping young minds grow for over 30 years with Sesame Street.
