- "Burr" was his mother's family name.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 786-788. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Winner of an UNIMA Citation of Excellence award from the American Chapter of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette, 1979.
- He got his start in high school theater. He left the University of Chicago after one semester to join a puppet theater company run by the city's parks department and funded by the Works Progress Administration.
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