Researching Rick Lyon
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6276 people with the Lyon surname? In that year Lyon was ranked number 660 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Rick means "Form of RICHARD. strong ruler" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Rick Lyon on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rick Lyon and the Lyon Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 7021 people with the Lyon surname in the UK? Lyon is now ranked number 854 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 33421 people with the Lyon surname in the USA? Lyon is ranked number 146 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Rick Lyon
Rick Lyon
Richard Lyon (born February 25, 1958) is an American puppeteer, actor, and puppet designer and builder. He has worked for The Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of Trekkie Monster, Nicky, the blue Bad Idea Bear, and other characters in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, a musical for which he designed and created all of the puppets. In the fall of 2005 he reprised his roles in the production of the show in Las Vegas for eight months before returning to the Broadway cast. Rick was a puppeteer on Sesame Street for 15 seasons, from 1987 to 2002. He also worked with Nickelodeon on the Stick Stickly project and on the Me + My Friends pilot. He was a lead puppeteer for the first season of Comedy Central's television program Crank Yankers. Rick has also appeared numerous times on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, for which he also provided the puppets he performed. Rick puppeteered a xenomorph chest burster in an "Alien" parody sketch with guest star Sigourney Weaver, and Yoda, Kermit the Frog, and Big Bird in satirical sketches. He also performed the puppets for the black and white throwback clip on the "15th Episode Anniversary Show" of At Home with Amy Sedaris.
Lyon's company, The Lyon Puppets, maintains a large permanent workshop outside New York City in New Jersey. In addition to building all of the Broadway and Las Vegas Avenue Q puppets, the company has built puppets for the original West End production of Avenue Q in London, the US national tour, and international productions in Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, France, and China. Rick frequently coaches actors in puppetry for productions of Avenue Q for which he provides puppets. He also directed a production of Avenue Q at Smithtown PAC.
He studied theater at Penn State University and puppetry at the Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts in Connecticut and the Institut International de la Marionnette in France.
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