Joshua Holden

is an Emmy nominated multi disciplinary artist, puppeteer, actor, and full time joy-maker. Joshua freelances for The Jim Henson Company as a fabricator, puppet builder, and one of the puppet wranglers on Sesame Street!

Broadway: Water For Elephants (Puppet Director) Puppet wrangling: Sesame Street (MAX - Emmy nomination for season 54), The Not Too Late Show with Elmo (Max), Helpsters (Apple) AVENUE Q (New World Stages - Off Broadway). National Tours: Avenue Q (2nd National), Peter Pan 360. Joshua garnered an Arts Impulse award as well as an IRNE nomination for “Best Actor In a Musical” as Bill Snibson in Me & My Girl (Reagle Music Theatre).

He is the creator and host of the award winning family show The Joshua Show, which toured across North America for 10 years. The Boston Globe described it as “A Modern Day Mr. Rogers with hipster appeal”.

He once worked with international street artist Banksy on his controversial piece Sirens of the Lambs and was the puppet wrangler for the off-broadway company of Avenue Q. Joshua is currently touring across the nation as one of the puppeteers on The Avett Brothers tour.

A proud Massachusetts native and an alumnus of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, he earned a B.F.A. in Acting from The Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University.