John Kennedy is a puppeteer who has played Mr. C on The Chica Show and served as the series' puppet captain.
Outside of Sprout, Kennedy has played Mel in Noggin's Jack's Big Music Show, Blotch in the 2002 direct-to-video film Kermit's Swamp Years, Horton the Elephant and Norval the Fish in Nickelodeon's The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, and various roles on Sesame Street and in the films Muppets from Space, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.