All About Muppets

Darryl Worbey is a British puppet designer, builder, and performer who is best known for freelancing at many companies over the years in his career, including with the Creature Shop. With the Creature Shop, he built puppets as well as supplied effects for many productions such as The Storyteller, The Ghost of Faffner Hall, Mother Goose Stories, TMNT films, and Dinosaurs. Darryl also worked with the Muppets on a few projects which were The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, and Muppets Most Wanted, not to mention two CD-ROMs. Worbey worked alongside puppet builder Jane Gootnick, on all of the series and other creature effects projects both in London and the USA until the late 1990s. Apart from the Creature Shop, he formed his own London-based studio in 1993, specialized in puppets, skins, and animatronics for entertainment. Some of his notable creations include rebranding Basil Brush and co-creating The Leprechauns from The Kicking, written and performed by Don Austen, John...

Frank Langley is a puppeteer, suit performer, and fabricator who did the latter for several Creature Shop projects. He mostly worked with the Creature Shop on films like Cats & Dogs, Snow Dogs, Stuart Little 2, and The Country Bears, as well as TV show Brats of the Lost Nebula. Frank should've done puppetry during his time with them as he is shown to be an excellent puppeteer on outside projects. Langley has puppeteered on numerous productions like Spider-Man 2, Team America: World Police, Stargate SG-1, and SpongeBob SquarePants (as Potty the Parrot). As for his fabrication credits, he contributed to Tron: Legacy, The Mandalorian, The Masked Singer, and music videos, concert tours, and other projects with several musical artists. Other puppeteers he got to work with include Brad Abrell, Donna Kimball, and Greg Ballora, all three have performed with Muppet performers. Frank Langley would be a wonderful addition to the Muppet performer category on the Wiki, if he ever performs o...

Trace Beaulieu is an actor, puppeteer, comedian, and writer who is known for being one of the original cast members of Mystery Science Theater 3000. He is also known for working on MST3K's successor Cinematic Titanic which had the original creators and cast from MST3K. On MST3K, Trace was on for the first eight seasons where he performed the Crow T. Robot puppet, portrayed Dr. Clayton Forrester, and wrote for the show itself. After the seventh season, Beaulieu left the show, and the role of Crow was taken over by various puppeteers over the years such as Nate Begle and Kelsey Ann Brady. Apart from MST3K, he also served as a writer on America's Funniest Home Videos from 1998-2007 and made lots of appearances on many shows like Freaks and Geeks. But the other production, Cinematic Titanic, was his other best project as it appeared both on television and live on stage from 2007-2013 when the show went on an indefinite hiatus. I wonder if Trace Beaulieu ever got to meet the Muppets...

Sarah Nolen is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and filmmaker who is known for performing many styles of puppetry for both stage and screen. She didn't work on Muppets or Sesame Street, but she has trained in one of Sesame Street's puppeteer workshops under the supervision of Muppet performers. Sarah's recent well-known show is called Treeples and it involves children and creatures. Nolen has also performed so many shows on stage such as Goblin Market, Peter & The Wolf, National Puppet Slam, and even shows at the Boston Pops. She even has her own company called Puppet Motion, where she serves consulting, puppet building, and media work for many types of productions such as many theatres and even college departments. In addition to puppetry, she also writes, directs, edits, and designs/builds puppets for many short films including ABC Detectives, Jump In, Ancestral, and Lullaby of Broadway. Sarah Nolen could be perfect to help out on Sesame Street, after all she did train in...

Nina Conti is a British ventriloquist, comedian, and actress who is best known for being her characters for many appearances. Her main characters included Face Mask, Granny, and Monkey, while other ones are more minor (not to mention originally made by Steve Axtell). Nina performed comedy for numerous appearances since 2002 and is also a regular at London comedy venues, like The Comedy Store. Conti had a relationship with comedian and actor Ken Campbell who mentored her, and she later inherited his ventriloquist dummies after his death, according to an article. She may not be considered as a puppeteer, but she has met Muppet performer Grant Baciocco on his podcast Under the Puppet, which I must say should count. As an actress, she's been working since 1996 on several theatre and television productions across the UK and the world as well. Some of the shows Nina Conti did include The Warp, Clare in the Community, For Your Consideration, and Bromwell High, just to name a few. She also...

Katy Williams is a puppeteer, designer, builder, and director who is known for doing numerous theatre productions over the years in her career. She puppeteered on many shows such as Lobstermen in Love, Avenue Q, Death Goes on Strike, and many others. Katy is also known for being both a puppeteer and a producer for The Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam (since 2018) and Rocky Mountain Puppet Palooza. It's amazing how Williams is able to do all of those theatre productions, even creating her very own puppet company called Katy Williams Design. In addition to puppets, she also designs makeup, props, sets, and many forms of artwork, as seen in Fiddler on the Roof, Shrek the Musical, and more. Though I wish she would perform or contribute designs for a production featuring the Muppets because she's done several forms of puppet artistry over the years in her career. However, Katy Williams has met one performer of a Muppet production which is Grant Baciocco, who interviewed her one time on hi...