John Cody

John Cody is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and writer who worked freelance with Jim Henson's Creature Shop since 2017. As for Sesame Street, he worked on seasons 49, 50, and 55 of the show, the window videos at Sesame Street Land in SeaWorld, and the Snuffleupagus walk-around for Sesame Place. John also built puppets for the stage show Jim Henson's Inspired Silliness, both directed and choreographed by John Tartaglia (who also did voices). Cody was also responsible for refurbishing Barkley when the dog returned for online appearances. Outside of Henson, he has served as an ensemble puppeteer for an episode of Helpsters and also works with the company No Strings Productions. In addition to those two, he also puppeteered on numerous projects such as Pineapple Playhouse (as SpongeBob), Treeples, Mr. Crocket, and Paddington Gets in a Jam, to name a few. John Cody also drafts scrips whenever he is not building or performing puppets including one featuring the Muppets, which might not happen, but you never know. Before joining Sesame Street as a builder, he participated in two puppeteer workshops held by Sesame Workshop in 2014 and 2016, but it's a shame he doesn't puppeteer on the show. Other puppet builders he worked with include Ben Durocher, Sarah Lafferty, Ceili Clemens, and Michael Schupbach, and many others. Perhaps John is going to continue building and performing puppets on many projects for screen and stage as well. Let's hope Cody's script involving the Muppets will get picked up at some point in the future, or maybe it was reworked into Muppets Haunted Mansion. He should also be happy to receive his first credit on Sesame Street during its 55th season. Even though its reasonable, it's never fair for someone to be uncredited on a show. John Cody, you are doing fabulous with the Creature Shop and all of those other productions companies as well. Keep up the great work and perhaps one of your scripts will make it to a show. You just got to keep trying at it. Peace out John. You got this Cody!