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03 Feb 2012 Mary Thornton

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...

27 Jan 2012 1983 Interview with Jim Henson

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....

28 Sep 2011 Spitting Image

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....

14 Sep 2011 Warhorse: The Puppeteers Speak

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...

12 Nov 2010 The Making of Slimer

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 -...

10 Nov 2010 Toby Philpott Interviews

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...

14 Jul 2010

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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