Frankie Cordero is an Emmy nominated puppetry performer and puppet builder. He has worked nationally and internationally helping bring countless characters to life in short films, music videos, national commercials, and TV shows such as The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tick, CSI: Las Vegas, Sesame Street (Rudy), t’s a Big, Big World (Ensemble), Julie’s Greenroom with Julie Andrews (Spike), Oobi (Papu), Frankie and Frank (Frankie), and various characters on Jack’s Big Music Show and Nature Cat. He also works as a director/storyboard artist for Chicago-based Spiffy Pictures and Fred Rogers Productions for Donkey Hodie on PBS Kids. Other directing credits include videos for Sesame Street, spots for Collegehumor/Motorola, and “The Whole World and You” music video from Tally Hall/Atlantic Records, for which he was also producer and co-designer. Live performance credits include performances at The White House, La MaMa ETC, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and The Metropolitan Opera, in which he was one of three principal puppeteers in Madama Butterfly, portraying the title character’s three-year-old son, Sorrow. Cordero has also toured nationally and internationally with such companies as Blair Thomas & Co, Hystopolis Productions, Phantom Limb Company, Walking With Dinosaurs, and Dramaton Theater, where he was a principal performer and co-Artistic Director. He lives in Oak Park, IL with his wife Marea, his two daughters; Zora and Zella, and their two tabbies; Raya and Stanley.