Kristian Michaels

Kristian Michaels (born Christopher Columbus Michaels, July 6, 1970) is a Canadian-American voice actress and puppeteer. She has voiced women, men, and children due to her versatile vocal range.

Biography
Kristian was born in, to a Canadian father of Czech origin and American mother. She was born Christopher Columbus Michaels (named after the explorer) and was assigned male at birth. Her father, at the time a historian at Auvray College, had been rescued in the and was adopted by a Canadian couple from. Kristian came out as transgender to her parents at age 17.

Kristian graduated from in,  in 1989 under the name of "Chris Michaels".

Career
For several years beginning in the mid-1990s, Kristian worked on several Muppets projects - as a writer (co-writing Journey to Eagle Rock and episodes of Eagle Rock), as a puppeteer (she was an ensemble Muppeteer for Sesame Park and Wacky Works), and doing photo puppet work for several Muppets books. She was the first transgender Muppeteer. She also performed a walk-around version of Louis in Sesame Park Live: When I Grow Up and walk-arounds of Zoe and Rosita at Ontario's Playland.