Tim Lagasse

Timothy Lagasse (born February 20, 1969) is an American puppeteer, puppet designer, and filmmaker. He has worked on television programs and films for Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, Disney XD, and HBO. He is known for playing the title character on Noggin's Oobi series, and Crash on Disney XD's Crash & Bernstein.Lagasse has been nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards. In 1991, he became the first individual to receive the Jim Henson Memorial Prize in Puppetry. In 1993, he was presented with a Citation for Excellence by UNIMA. Later in the same year, he received a Broadcast Design Silver Award for his series of short films, A Show of Hands.