Puppeteering

REEL

“… precise and nuanced. That short scene demonstrates just about the most perfect manipulation I’ve ever seen.“

Alan Semok, Film & Television FX Master

“He’s got something that audiences welcome. Charm & talent.”

ARTHUR NOVELL, PR Exec. – Markham/Novell & Dir. of The Jim Henson Foundation

“Funny, easy to work with and well versed. He did a great, great job.”

CHUCK FAWCETT, President – Animax Designs

“I’ve never laughed so hard or so much from a single word. So funny and skilled.”

JAY RINSKY, Founder – Little Cinema Digital (for Cartoon Network)

“Detailed, nuanced, beautiful manipulation.”

ALLAN COOK, Designer/Puppeteer/Animator

Gumby & Pokey, Sid & Marty Krofft

“A great puppeteer with huge, stonking talent and very funny.”

MIKE QUINN, Puppeteer – Star Wars/Disney/Muppets

“… a puppeteer that is smart and hilarious. That’s rare. I loved your workshop.”

TOM McLAUGHLIN, Groundbreaking FX Designer

LucasFilms/Jim Henson Creature Shop

INTERVIEW

GUEST SPEAKER & WORKSHOPS AT

The National Puppetry Festival Puppetpalooza Eugene O’Neil Conference NYU UCLA

CLIENTS

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ALBUM

For those who love the artistry, please enjoy this album of photos from co-workers, public domain & my own personal archives from numerous productions.

THE CONTEXT AND USAGE OF THESE PERSONAL & ARCHIVE IMAGES HAVE BEEN GRACIOUSLY APPROVED IN WRITING BY THE JIM HENSON COMPANY, PIXAR, GBP INC., VIACOM, SESAME WORKSHOP, THE BATCAVE OF OZ, THE SMITHSONIAN, DISNEY MUPPET HOLDING COMPANY, DISNEY THEATRICAL, TRIGGER STREET PRODS., WARNER MEDIA, PARAMOUNT+ and INDIVIDUAL PROVIDERS.

[Show slideshow]

Cartoonito in Las Vegas

Glob and Ashley Nicole Black (Ted Lasso)

Cartoonito Rehearsal

Cartoonito Shadow Puppets

Puppeteering the tennis ball

Me on The Street

Puppeteering for Hello Dollies series

Cast & Crew of "Hello Dollies"

The President of Show Business

Bird of Prey

The World's Oldest Gymnast

World's Oldest Gymnast music video

I'm the green guy with Israel's host/comic Guri Alki

Puppet Captain for talk show band leader

Monkey News Source Improv show with MARK WALTON of Disney's "BOLT

UCB performers for Live Stream's Monkey News Source

I've had a long connection to Howdy Doody. This is Jim Rose, his brother.

Ronnie Burkett

Teaching at O'Neill

Teaching at The O'Neil in the Rufus & Margo Rose Barn

Mech Genuis, Jim Kroupa

Performing Animax's Virtual Puppet

Snook from Big Big World

Stacey Gordon, Lisa Henson, Ken Martinson

Muppet's Bill Barretta

Muppeteers, Kevin Carlson, Bruce Lanoil, Tyler Bunch

Je-Ghetto

Puppet Life Magazine

Puppet Fest - teaching

muppet auditions

As "Grandpa" in Apt. 413"

Creature workshop

Senor Wences tribute and induction

Improv interview with Robert Townsend

Times Square shoot: GNA

TELLY monster and Marty

the stoop and the can!

FX for Dana Brunetti's Trigger Street Prods

On break for Trigger Street Prods with Kevin Spacey

SNUFFY btwn takes

snuffy off the clock

Oscar's Sloppy Jalopy

Friends on The Street

Sesame blocking

The Henson brownstone

Bird's foot

Premeire of The Muppets on ABC

Mystery Science Theater

Bedfellas

Bedfellas Cast

Bedfellas Baby

Bedfellas under a teen's bed

Bedfellas mic check

“The first time I met Jim Henson, I was in my teens. I leaped off the Disney Tour Tram when they announced the Hensons were renting the production offices on the lot. I sneaked through security and asked for Jim. I was told I had just missed him and when I turned around, he walked in, finished his conversation, turned to me and that’s when I told him I was going to work for him. He said he’d look forward to that day.” – Michael Paul