Martin P. Robinson

Martin P Robinson born March 9 1954 is a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company He originally built designed and performed the puppets for Little Shop of Horrors He is perhaps best known for his work on Sesame Street He has performed the characters of Telly Monster Slimey the Worm Mr Snuffleupagus and Tony The Turtle on the show for more than 20 years He also performed the character Riff on Allegras Window and was an animatronic puppeteer for Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles He is the puppeteer responsible for training the puppeteers on Sesame Tree He was born on March 9 1954 in Dearborn Michigan Graduated from Brookfield East High School in Brookfield Wisconsin suburb of Milwaukee He was married to Annie Evans on August 9 2008 on the set of Sesame Street in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens NY Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin P Robinson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia