RYAN DILLON
Puppeteer, Voice-Over Artist, Puppet Builder
dillypuppets@gmail.com
www.dillypuppets.com

SELECTED CREDITS

TELEVISION/VIDEO/WEB:          

Wake Up Your Weird                  video segements

Sesame Street                            AM Keyboardist               

Oral Hygiene DVD

Gregory Brothers video               Puppeteer

"Hello Again"                                Duck                                                                                               

"Whip My Fins"                            Dorsel  

ImaginOcean promo                    Puppet Captain 

music video

Space Jam Parody                      Various Looney Tunes

College Humor.com                     impersonations (Voice-Over)

The Fuzz (pilot)                            Principal Puppeteer
Waverly Films                               Various Main Characters                                 `            
     
Ohio State Lottery                        Principal Puppeteer,           
Christmas Commercial                 Reindeer

"Elmo's Christmas                        Ensemble Muppeteer        
Countdown"   
 ABC

"Learning is Everywhere"             Ensemble Muppeteer
 DVD

"Healthy Habits For Life"              Ensemble Muppeteer
 DVD

"Macy's Thanksgiving Day            Sesame Street float Muppeteer,
Parade" 2006, 2007                      Ernie and Hoots the Owl
 NBC, CBS

"Elmo's Country Music"                 Ensemble Muppeteer
 DVD

"Elmo's Here For You"                   Ensemble Muppeteer
 DVD

"Sesame Beginnings"                   Ensemble Muppeteer
 DVD

"Sesame Street"                           Ensemble Muppeteer
Seasons 37 and 38, PBS             Speaking roles include

                                                      "Henrietta Chicken"
                                                      "Sensitive Nose Dwarf"
                                                      Various Monsters and Anything Muppets

THEATER/LIVE PERFORMANCE:

Leslie Carrara Rudolph's                 Assistant Puppeteer

Wake Up Your Weird

O'Neill Puppetry Conference

June 2011                    

Sun Products Holiday Party           Snuggle Bear,

Show by The Jim Henson              Various "Stuffed and Unstrung"

Company                                        characters   

December 2011

Off-B'Way                                         Dorsel

March 2010 - September 2011

The Mall At Steamtown                  Principal Puppeteer
"Storytime with Seymour"               Seymour Frog
 December 2008                             Built and performed for
                                                        live mall shows

"The Molted Mysteries"                  Principal Puppeteer                 
 April 2008                                      Phoebe the Owl, various others
                                                       Built, performed, co-wrote and directed
                                                       for live library performance
 
"Paul Mesner's                                Principal Puppeteer
Urban Myths                                    Grandma
and Legends"                                                          
O'Neill Puppetry Conference
June 2008                                         

"Ron Binion's
 Crossing Boundaries 2"                 Various table-top puppets
O'Neill Puppetry Conference
June 2007


EDUCATION:

Jim Henson's                                   Puppetry Improv classes

Stuffed and Unstrung                       taught by Patrick Bristow

Sesame Workshop                          Week long workshop,
Puppeteer Workshop                       taught by Kevin Clash (Elmo),
                                                         Marty Robinson (Telly)
                   
John Tartaglia                                  Month long class, Led by Avenue Q's John Tartaglia,
Master Class in Puppetry                Television and theater puppetry