All About Muppets

Emaley Rose is a stage actress, puppeteer, and voiceover artist who was the understudy for several of the Muppets and the sole human performer on Sesame Street: The Musical (2023 run). She mentioned in an interview that she is a self-taught puppeteer, while giving James Ortiz and Finn Caldwell credit. Emaley also puppeteered on other stage shows such as The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, and The Eric Carle Story Show. Rose also does voiceover work for animation, video games and apps, podcasts, and commercials, according to her website. Some of the voice acting credits include Little Women, Dragonfly Kids Chronicles, Weeping Cedars, and many others. Other performers she got to work with include Yanniv Frank, Vicki Oceguera, and Arlee Chadwick, to name a few. Some of the stage acting credits Emaley Rose did include Stephen Schwartz: Live in Concert, Miss Bennet, The Wizard of Oz, and Romeo and Juliet. Not only is she talented at puppetry but she's ...

Arlee Chadwick is a puppeteer, designer, and builder who is best known for her performance on Boop! the Musical with Huber Marionettes (original cast) and Rockefeller projects. In addition to Boop, she also did various other shows such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, The Little Prince, Dinosaur Train Live, and The Golden Girls Show. Apart from theatre, Arlee is the creator of Puppets by Arlee, where she builds custom puppets for theatre, film, and educational programming. Chadwick even got to perform in-suit for Sesame Street Live for 5 years and puppeteered on John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean. For the latter, she got to work with Ryan Dillon, Weston Chandler Long, Carole D'Agostino, and James Wojtal, all who work on Sesame Street. She seems to be well experienced with both puppets and marionettes as she's a resident artist at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, which does numerous performances. Arlee Chadwick is doing pretty well at performing puppets as well as desig...

Vicki Oceguera is a Native American actress, puppeteer, singer, and director who is known for her vast work in the theater, most notably with Rockefeller Studios. She may not have directly done Henson TV projects, but she did puppeteer on Dinosaur Train Live! and Sesame Street: The Musical, the latter with Yanniv Frank. Vicki also puppeteered on Clifford the Big Red Dog Live, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Ajijaak on Turtle Island, and numerous others. Oceguera must've been trained by Sesame Street performers to puppeteer so well on stage. In addition to puppetry, she also acted in Honestly Abe, My Stage Daddy, US Drag, and staged readings of Rescue Rue and Before the Road. Some of the shows she performed on were also directed by her like the two acting credits mentioned in the previous sentence. I'll bet that performing a Sesame Street live show made Vicki Oceguera very excited as not a lot of lucky people get to do that. I certainly hope she continues to perform live on st...

Yanniv Frank is a puppeteer, puppet designer/builder, writer, and director who is known for his work in the theatre and for his company The Brother Earth Collaborative. As a puppeteer, he worked on many theatrical projects such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, The Pocket Park Kids, Runaway Rue, and most recently, Sesame Street The Musical. Yanniv previously had puppetry training within Sesame Workshop where he was trained by many Muppet performers, including Martin P. Robinson and Matt Vogel. Frank only did two television programs which were Boyish Charms and Feel Your Best Self, the former he also got to build puppets, write, and direct. Hopefully with these two screen credits, he'll get to write and direct more productions in the future. He should be proud to have been trained by Sesame Street performers in which led him to stardom for both screen and stage. In addition to puppetry and directing, Yanniv Frank is also a musician with a catalogue of over 50 original songs, 3 so...

Hashim Haider is an Indian puppeteer, writer, and actor who is best known for playing Akshar Kumar on the Indian co-production of Sesame Street, Galli Galli Sim Sim. When he joined the show in 2006, he was initially a puppet wrangler before given the character during the second season. Hashim even got to help make Akshar Kumar one of the most prominent Muppets on Galli, though during the 6th season he was a constant character under the name Hero. Haider got to work alongside other Indian puppeteers on Sim Sim such as Ghazal Javid, Sangya Ojha, and Babita Kurdiya Rachoya, to name a few. Outside, he works as a freelance puppetry artist across Mumbai, India, as well as being co-founder of the Indian puppet company The Puppetarians alongside Sanya Ojha. I'll bet the two developed a co-worker thing while on Galli prior to founding the company. It must have been an honor for Hashim Haider to work on an international co-production of Sesame Street and be trained to puppeteer by Martin P. ...

Jay Tyson is a puppeteer, filmmaker, and puppet designer/builder who only did one Muppet production, the feature film Muppets from Space as an additional performer. He is more well known for doing his own puppet projects for screen and web. Jay could have also performed on The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland as both films were shot in North Carolina at the same production facility. Tyson probably was more interested in doing his own thing and working solo most of the time. Outside, he created the puppet films Coffee Impossible, PODS, The Story of One, and many other puppet shorts, all of which can be found online. He also wrote and produced several stage plays involving puppetry like The Time Machine and a version of the classic Frankenstein. Jay Tyson also designs and builds puppets for films such as The Mill, not to mention several television pilots. Other puppet related independent films and web series he made have included Royal Follies, 99 Acre Woods, and fan parodies like Off Tr...