Ed Christie (born May 20, 1956) is an art director and puppet designer. Christie started out as an intern with

Henson Associates The Jim Henson Company (formerly known as Muppets, Inc., Henson Associates, Inc., and Jim Henson Productions, Inc.; commonly referred to as Henson) is an American entertainment company located in Los Angeles, California. The company is known for ...

in 1978. He graduated from

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with a BFA/Education in 1979. After years of learning Muppet design techniques, and building many of the classic Muppet characters, Christie was promoted to Muppet Supervisor in charge of ''

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'' (1991-1996). He was later promoted to Vice President/NY Muppet Workshop Supervisor (1997-2004) as well as Art Director for Henson on ''Sesame Street''. He also contributed his skills to Henson Licensing and Publishing. In 2004, Christie left Henson and was contracted by Sesame Workshop where he is currently designing characters for the domestic version of ''Sesame Street'' and Sesame Street International. He has designed the Muppet characters for Sesame India, Bangladesh, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Egypt, China, Poland, France, Mexico, Canada, Japan and others. Christie is featured in the film '' The World According to Sesame Street''. He has won 8 Emmy Awards for his work on ''Sesame Street'' and numerous nominations for other Henson productions. Christie's work was also seen in the

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productions of ''

Doonesbury ''Doonesbury'' is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, ...

'', ''

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'', '' Sugar Babies'' and '' Encores! Carnival!''.

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Interview in the Boston Globe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, Ed Living people Muppet designers Emmy Award winners University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education alumni 1956 births