Caroll Spinney

Appearing Friday/Saturday/Sunday

Join us in celebrating Mr. Spinney's last convention appearance!

Caroll is a puppeteer, cartoonist, author, and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since 1969.

As Big Bird and Oscar, he has conducted orchestras across the US and Canada, including the Boston Pops, as well as visited the White House multiple times. He has provided the characters' voices on dozens of albums. As Oscar, Caroll has written How to Be a Grouch, a Whitman Tell-A-Tale picture book. With J. Milligan, he wrote the 2003 book, The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers. Caroll narrated the audiobook Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis.

Though Big Bird and Oscar are his main characters, Caroll has also performed other characters. He created and performed Bruno the Trash Man, a full-bodied puppet representing a garbage carrier, who also carried Oscar's trash can. Caroll has performed as Granny Bird, Big Bird's grandmother, which Caroll provided her voice.