Berea College graduate joins Sesame Street as puppeteer
and last updated 2021-04-14 20:49:25-04
BEREA, Ky. (LEX 18) â Within the last year, Sesame Street made headlines as the show tackled topics like race and equality. Well, what many of us probably didn t know, is behind one of the characters on the children s show is a Berea College graduate.
Chris Thomas Hayes stumbled upon puppetry while a student at Berea College. After graduation and a lot of hard work, Hayes earned a role as a puppeteer on Sesame Street. I started doing right hands for the puppets that have two live hands, like Ernie, The Count, and I would do assisting if there were any kind of weird hand-off s and I would do background characters, Hayes said.