This was the first time I’ve ever touched a puppet as an adult so thanks to everyone who encouraged me to try it and helped me get up the courage to get on stage. Thanks to the encouragement from the Sesame Street puppeteers (I don’t remember all of your names) and to the encouragement from Pam Arciero. Also thanks to David Pendleton for lending me his ventriloquism dummy and to Jeff Goltz for holding the book as well to the hilarious sketches I saw that evening — probably the funniest things I’ve ever seen on a stage