Joshua Holden is an Emmy-nominated puppeteer, actor, and full-time joy-maker — and one of the most versatile puppet artists working today. He 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 — currently on National Tour). Puppet Wrangling: Sesame Street (HBO — Emmy nomination, Season 54), The Not Too Late Show with Elmo (HBO), Helpsters (Apple), Avenue Q (New World Stages, Off-Broadway). National Tours: Avenue Q (2nd National), Avett Brothers Band (2024), Peter Pan 360. Joshua also garnered an Arts Impulse Award and 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 ten years. The Boston Globe described it as "A Modern Day Mr. Rogers with hipster appeal." His new show, The Joyfully Jolly Jamboree, will premiere in December 2026.

This fall he makes his Metropolitan Opera debut as Associate Puppet Director of the world premiere of Lincoln at the Bardo. He has also puppeteered for international street artist Banksy on the iconic Sirens of the Lambs — a slaughterhouse truck roaming the streets of New York City, stuffed animals peering out from every opening.

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