Noel MacNeal

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Noel MacNeal (born 1961 in Harlem, New York City) is a puppeter, writer, and director of children's television, best known as the voice and puppeteer of Bear in Bear in the Big Blue House and Breakfast with Bear. He first came to public attention in the early 1980's.

On November 6, 1999, he married Susan Elia at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary[1].

Among his characters are Bear, Mrs. (Mommy) Snuffleupagus and various Snuffleupagus relatives on Sesame Street. He has also been Magellan, a baby dragon, on the ACE Award winning series Eureeka's Castle on Nick Jr, Leon MacNeal in The Puzzle Place; Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and Madame Chairbird in the film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird.

[edit] Credits

• Bear in the Big Blue House: Bear
• Peter and the Wolf: The Wolf
• Sesame Street: Mommy Snuffleupagus, Gretel
• City Kids
• Dinosaurs
• Dog City (series)
• The Jim Henson Hour
• Little Muppet Monsters
• A New Baby in My House
• Sesame Street's Staying Up Late
• Follow That Bird: Madame Chairbird

[edit] Non-Henson Credits

• Blue's Room: Blue (puppeteer)
• Oobi: Kako
• Eureeka's Castle
• The Puzzle Place
• The Great Space Coaster
• The Cosby Show: Doglion
• Cosby: puppet
• Chappelle's Show: "Knee High Park"
• Oz: (Miss Sally's Show)
• The Good Night Show, season 1 (consultant)
• A Very Special Good Night: Leo (host)

[edit] External links

• Noel MacNeal at Muppet Wiki