1. Carolyn Wilcox, known as Caroly Wilcox, was an American theatre professional, best known for her work with the Muppets, on television programs including Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock, and in The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and other films.
Carolyn Wilcox was the younger daughter of Clair Wilcox and Florence Ruth Chapman Wilcox.
Caroly Wilcox was a birthright Quaker, as registered with the Swarthmore Monthly Meeting.
Caroly Wilcox was a folk singer as a young woman, a member of a trio called The Samplers, with whom she made a record.
Caroly Wilcox appeared in the Broadway show The Next President in 1958, danced in a Brooklyn lecture-demonstration in 1963, and worked on a Pickwick Puppet Theater production in Boston in 1970.
Caroly Wilcox began working with the Muppets in 1969, and was director of the New York Muppet workshop.
Caroly Wilcox designed, built, and performed characters for Sesame Street, including the Yip-Yips and an early version of Elmo, from its launch in 1969 until her retirement in 2012.
Caroly Wilcox worked on The Muppet Show, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, and Fraggle Rock, and Put Down the Duckie.
Caroly Wilcox served on the board of directors of the Jim Henson Foundation.
Caroly Wilcox was part of the creative teams nominated for Emmy Awards in 1976 and 1980, and the Sesame Street team that won a Daytime Emmy in 1990, for costume design.
Caroly Wilcox taught puppetry workshops in the theatre program at New York University, and at other schools.
In 2020, Caroly Wilcox appeared with fellow Jim Henson colleagues Bonnie Erickson and Rollie Krewson in an online interview hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image.