David Rudman (June 1, 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American puppeteer, writer, director, and producer known for his involvement with the Muppets and Sesame Street.
David Rudman has been a Sesame Street muppet performer since 1985—currently performing Cookie Monster, Baby Bear and The Two-Headed Monster. He has received four Emmy nominations as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his work on Sesame Street. Rudman has also directed several web videos for Sesame Street such as “Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live” and “Conversations with Bert.” He has performed in numerous television shows and specials including Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and The Muppets where he performed Scooter and Janice. His film credits include The Muppets Take Manhattan, Labyrinth, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, A Muppet Christmas Carol, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. Following the departure of Steve Whitmire in 2017, He became Beaker's new voice performer.
In addition to his work on Sesame Street and the Muppets, Rudman is co-owner of Spiffy Pictures where he co-created, executive produced, directed and performed in Jack's Big Music Show and Curious Buddies on Nick Jr., Bunnytown on Disney Junior, Scooby Doo Adventures! The Mystery Map for Warner Bros. and the animated series Nature Cat on PBS.
Rudman took over as Frank Oz of the Cookie Monster, and Richard Hunt's half of the Two-Headed Monster after his death, along with Sonny Friendly, and also he took over for Sully to Jerry Nelson's Biff, the construction workers. He has also taken over two roles once held by Richard Hunt: Scooter, and Janice of Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.
He was the executive producer of Jack's Big Music Show and performed the voice of Jack (which has since been canceled.) Rudman is also the executive producer, co-creator, and director of Bunnytown and the creator, executive producer, character designer, director and voice director of Nature Cat and provides the voices of several characters including Leo the Mammoth, Prospector Jones, Nevin and the Seeker.
