John Nicholas Tartaglia is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Tartaglia was born in Maple Shade, New Jersey, U.S.. He joined Sesame Street's puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin Clash's Elmo. He performed Ernie for the second season of Play with Me Sesame, Oscar the Grouch for Sesame Street 4D and Kermit the Frog. He became a full time part of Sesame Street at the age of 18.

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  • John Nicholas Tartaglia is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Tartaglia was born in Maple Shade, New Jersey, U.S.. He joined Sesame Street's puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin Clash's Elmo. He performed Ernie for the second season of Play with Me Sesame, Oscar the Grouch for Sesame Street 4D and Kermit the Frog. He became a full time part of Sesame Street at the age of 18. Tartaglia created and puppeteered the roles of Princeton (the recent college grad) and Rod in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Avenue Q, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 2004. He left the Broadway cast of Avenue Q on January 30, 2005. Tartaglia appeared in 2004 at the 14th annual Broadway Bares, which was a great success raising $525,000 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Tartaglia reprised his roles as Princeton and Rod in the Las Vegas sit-down production of Avenue Q, until December 11, 2005. He then appeared in the musical Newsical 2006: The Next Edition in New York City. Tartaglia joined the cast of Beauty and the Beast as Lumière, alongside Jonathan Freeman, who played Cogsworth, on November 21, 2006. He planned to stay with the show until it closed in July, but was replaced in early June by David Devries. Tartaglia is now working on his own television show for Playhouse Disney entitled Johnny and the Sprites as creator, executive producer, and star. While the episodes began as only 5 minute interstitials, the show began a full 30-minute series on January 13, 2007. The show began filming season two during mid 2007. He recently played Pinocchio in the new Broadway show, Shrek the Musical. Performances began on December 14, 2008 at The Broadway Theatre following an out-of-town tryout at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater. Tartaglia played his final performance on August 16, 2009 but will return to the show December 15, 2009. During his four month absence his roles within the show will be played by Robb Sapp.
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  • John Nicholas Tartaglia is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Tartaglia was born in Maple Shade, New Jersey, U.S.. He joined Sesame Street's puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin Clash's Elmo. He performed Ernie for the second season of Play with Me Sesame, Oscar the Grouch for Sesame Street 4D and Kermit the Frog. He became a full time part of Sesame Street at the age of 18.
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