So many great puppetry-related things have been happening lately, far too many to properly mention here. Here's a round-up of a few of the things I've neglected to mention...
So many great puppetry-related things have been happening lately, far too many to properly mention here. Here's a round-up of a few of the things I've neglected to mention...
Ain't It Cool News has been doing a series of interviews from the set of the The Great and Powerful Oz. One of the interviews features Master marionette puppeteer Phillip Huber, who performed an 18 inch tall marionette version of the film's "China Girl" character on...
Howard Berger is an Academy Award Winning special effects artist and the co-founder of KNB EFX Group. In this in-depth half hour interview he talks about how he got started in the business, being mentored by Stan Winston and how practical and digital special effects work...
The legendary Stan Freberg recalls his work on the equally legendary and ground-breaking TV series Time For...
A profile of Chicag0-based visual artist Dan Crowley, who creates fantastic looking polymer clay puppets and...
The incomparable Fred "Mister" Rogers talks about his work in puppetry in an excerpt from a truly epic, four hour (!) long 1999 interview....
The latest installment of Nerdist's Ain't It Cool show on YouTube (see previous post) features puppet Harry chatting with Caroll Spinney and reminiscing about Jim...
Jim Henson shows viewers around the Muppet Workshop in this 1989 segment for CBS This...
I began my career as a professional puppeteer with Famous PEOPLE Players (FPP) a really acclaimed black light theatre company. I spent almost four years there in the late `90s and it was a really remarkable formative experience for me. It's safe to say that not a single day goes by that I don't make...
I stumbled across this online while doing some research earlier this week; it's an excerpt from a CBC interview with Jim Henson taped on the set of Fraggle Rock in 1983....
I don't usually write posts about live/local puppetry here, but the next month or so is such great time to see some great puppetry in Toronto that I couldn't resist....
Tough Pigs recently sat down for an interview with Bonnie Erickson, a former head of the Muppet Workshop and currently the Executive Director of the Jim Henson...