Tim Lagasse

Tim Lagasse is an award-winning puppeteer, puppet designer, and filmmaker. On Oobi, he played the main character. He also directed all episodes of the first season and worked as a puppet coordinator for each episode. He earned his BFA from the University of Connecticut's Puppet Arts Program. Upon graduating, he became the first student to receive the Jim Henson Memorial Prize in Puppetry. In college, he created a series of short films starring bare-handed puppets called A Show of Hands. It won him a number of awards and led to him being noticed by Josh Selig, a writer for Sesame Street who eventually created Oobi. Selig was impressed with Lagasse's bare-handed work and asked him to play Oobi. Bio Lagasse acts as a puppeteering consultant and creates puppet films for stations like PBS, MTV, HBO, and Nickelodeon. He played puppet lead Crash on the Disney Channel series Crash & Bernstein. He enjoys performing puppetry for a more mature audience also, and does so at various puppet events and slams across New York and New England. In addition to his performance credits, Tim also teaches the art of puppetry, lecturing at the Lincoln Center Foundation and instructing students on modern television puppet techniques at the Puppet Arts Program at the University of Connecticut and the O'Neill Puppetry Conference. Roles Oobi One of the rock stars Chicken in "Uma Dreams!" Taro in "Uma Preschool!" Oobi-Rex in "Dinosaur!" Other credits Allegra's Window - Mr. Cook, Tweeter Bear in the Big Blue House - Jet Setter Tutter, ensemble puppeteer The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss - Fox in Socks, Junior Kangaroo, various characters Between the Lions - Walter Pigeon, Arty Smartypants Kermit Channel Promo - Stu the Janitor Sesame Street - Various characters The Book of Pooh - Ensemble puppeteer Johnny and the Sprites - Basil The Producers - Pigeons Blue's Room - Polka Dots and Dress-Up Chest, puppet designer and builder It's a Big Big World - Ick and Wartz, director for some episodes Chappelle's Show - Knee High Park Imagination Movers - Warehouse Mouse puppet designer Once Upon a Tree - Jasper the Hare, Bleu the Cricket Crash & Bernstein - Crash The Muppets (2015 series) - Additional characters External links Official site IMDb TV.com Navigation v • e Crew Cast members Pam Arciero • Heather Asch • Jennifer Barnhart • Cheryl Blaylock • Lisa Buckley • Tyler Bunch • Kevin Clash • Frankie Cordero • Stephanie D'Abruzzo • James Godwin • Tim Lagasse • Noel MacNeal • Matt Vogel Composers Jared Faber • Christopher North • Marianna Rosett Other crew John Montagna • Jennifer Oxley • Martin P. Robinson • Josh Selig Companies Little Airplane Productions • Nickelodeon • Noggin