I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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...
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....
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...
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...
The latest installment of the Henson.com Podcast is out and features a great interview with frequent Henson puppeteer Victor...
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 -...
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...
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...
Slate Magazine calls Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham “America’s favourite comedian”. I’m not sure when or how it happened, but a Ventriloquist has become America’s favourite comedian. At least that’s what Slate Magazine says about Jeff Dunham and they make a good case for it: “Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special, which aired on Comedy Central in November,...