Jim Henson shows viewers around the Muppet Workshop in this 1989 segment for CBS This...
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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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Back in 2005 The British Film Institute hosted a special tribute to the series that included a panel discussion with several members of the Spitting Image creative team, including co-creator Peter Fluck, voice artist Steve Nallon and puppeteer Louise Gold....
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Several months ago I had the privilege of attending a great event in New York called Warhorse: The Puppeteers Speak. Hosted by The New School, it was one of the most interesting discussions about puppetry that I've ever...
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Tough Pigs posted another great interview late last week, this time with writer David Misch, who worked on The Muppets Take Manhattan and Jim Henson's little-known Innertube...
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The latest installment of the Henson.com Podcast is out and features a great interview with frequent Henson puppeteer Victor...
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This three part installment of Steve Johnson's Rubber Rules series on YouTube (see previous post) offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the creation of one of the most iconic puppet characters of the 1980s -...
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This is a brief interview with British puppeteer Toby Philpott discussing his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a film that most people don't realize required a team of puppeteers to...
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I'm a little late posting this, but in case you haven't already listened to it, Steve Swanson had a great chat with Muppeteer Bill Baretta on The Muppetcast a few weeks...
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