John Nicholas Tartaglia is an American puppeteer, actor, and singer.
20 Facts About John Tartaglia
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John Tartaglia joined Sesame Streets puppetry team in a part-time capacity at the age of 16.
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John Tartaglia performed and assisted many minor characters, including Phoebe, and was the understudy for Kevin Clash's Elmo.
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John Tartaglia performed as Ernie for the second season of Play with Me Sesame and as Oscar the Grouch for Sesame Street 4D.
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John Tartaglia was a digital puppeteer for the "Elmo's World" segments and performed the character Tingo on Sesame English.
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John Tartaglia became a full-time part of Sesame Street at the age of 18.
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In 2003, John Tartaglia performed as DJ 2 in Animal Jam.
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John Tartaglia created and puppeteered the roles of Princeton and Rod in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Avenue Q, which opened on July 31,2003.
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John Tartaglia was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2004 and left the cast on January 30,2005.
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John Tartaglia reprised these roles in the Las Vegas production of Avenue Q from August to December 2005.
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John Tartaglia then appeared in Newsical 2006: The Next Edition in December 2005.
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In 2006, John Tartaglia joined the cast of Beauty and the Beast as Lumiere until June 2007.
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John Tartaglia created, executive produced, and starred in the Playhouse Disney short series Johnny and the Sprites, which expanded to a full 30-minute series on January 13,2007.
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In 2007, John Tartaglia provided the voice for Mr Bluelight in Kmart commercials.
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John Tartaglia played Pinocchio, Puss in Boots, and the Magic Mirror, and puppeteered the dragon in Shrek The Musical.
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John Tartaglia performed until August 16,2009, returned on December 14,2009, and stayed until the production closed on January 3,2010.
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John Tartaglia created and wrote John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean, which ran Off-Broadway at New World Stages from March 31,2010, to September 4,2011.
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John Tartaglia performed in The Temperamentals at the Blank Theatre Company in Los Angeles from April 9 to May 22,2011.
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In January 2024, it was announced that John Tartaglia had joined The Jim Henson Company's development team as creative supervisor of future Fraggle Rock projects, in addition to contributing to the development and production of new television and live show projects for the company.
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In 2012, John Tartaglia married Michael Shawn Lewis in New York.