A native of Adairsville Georgia, Rickey Boyd is a puppeteer who managed to combine his childhood love of animation and puppetry into a lifelong career. After graduating from Shorter College, he began working for Jim Henson productions in 1988. His most visible work includes Sesame Street, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dinosaurs, Animal Jam, Muppets from Space, Muppet Wizard of Oz, and Muppet Vision 3d (Disney Attraction). Rickey has worked on a wide range of non Henson productions. His work includes design, animation and puppet work for TNN (Peppercorn Prod./The Nashville Network) and most recently "Wondermore Kids" for InTOuch Ministries and "Doug the Slug" for Brentwood Studio's/Randall Goodgame's "The Slugs and Bugs Show". Rickey is a creative director at Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio in Nashville, where he helps lead the talented team on projects for Sesame Workshop, Jim Henson Productions, among others. He has won three Emmy Awards for his contributions to Sesame Street.

He lives outside Nashville with his family.