All About Muppets

Jane Pickworth is a British puppeteer, voice actress, and visual artist who has done numerous productions since 1992. She trained with the Jim Henson Company in 2002 and later served as an additional performer on The Furchester Hotel with others like Mikey Brett, Emily Morus-Jones, and Dilpreet Kaur Walia. Jane even puppeteered Tutter for a Bear in the Big Blue House: Surprise Party live show in 2003. Some of the other shows Pickworth puppeteered on include Fun Song Factory, Bad Penny, Roly Mo Live Show, and Litter Things Matter. As a voice actress, her voice can be heard on numerous television and radio shows like Numtums, Love Monster, My Friend Maisy, and many other promos, commercials, and Audible book series. She seems to be so versatile when it comes to creating characters out of her voice. Jane Pickworth also did visual arts for shows like Tweenies, MacDonald's Farm, Doodle Do, and Supertato as either floor manager, art director, or a designer. In addition to performing on t...

Dilpreet Kaur Walia is a British puppeteer and writer for children's TV, both live-action and animated. She served as one of the "puppeteer interns" during the second season of The Furchester Hotel, with Emily Morus-Jones and Lewis McCabe. Dilpreet was also an additional puppeteer on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, which shows she does shows for families too. Walia also had a puppet caricature of herself on an episode of The Furchester Hotel, portrayed by one of the Anything Muppets. Apart from those two series, she mostly wrote for children's television like on Millie and Lou, Circle Square, Hey Duggee, and Peppa Pig, to name a few. I wonder why she didn't do any other production with puppetry, as that would help give her more experience to add to her resume. Dilpreet Kaur Walia still did a fine job on Furchester Hotel and Dark Crystal nonetheless, but I hope in the future she'll puppeteer again. She has written for puppetry on Dodge's Pup School, ac...

Susan Solomon is an actress, suit performer, writer, and singer-songwriter who mostly did minor roles on television and film. She also performed the full-bodied Auntie Bumble on The Huggabug Club for the first two seasons, working alongside Ilysia J. Pierce and Bret Shefter. I wonder how Susan managed to voice Auntie Bumble from inside the costume made by the company KCL Productions. Solomon usually had minor roles on screen as seen in Fastlane, Married... with Children, and Raising the Bar, but recurring roles on the show Cory and the Wongnotes. According to her IMDb bio, she traveled across America to do different roles in show business such as portraying Sophie Tucker in Bubbling Brown Sugar on Broadway, following a role in Let My People Come. She later got a gig in Saturday Night Fever before moving to CA to become a recording star then traveling to the Middle East to perform at Inter-Continental Hotel. As well as performing on stage and screen, Susan Solomon also wrote her own one...

Peter Hurst is a British puppeteer who performed on numerous Creature Shop projects during the mid-1990s. He puppeteered on The Adventures of Pinocchio, Buddy, George of the Jungle, and Lost in Space, with other performers such as Pons Maar, Julianne Buescher, Bruce Lanoil, and Gil Correa. In 1998, Peter also made an appearance with John Wheatley in a short film called Diabolical Properties, made by fellow Muppet performer David Barclay. Other projects Hurst did include Woof, Dangerfield, and Ghost Ship, the latter as a miniature maker with the company Photon VFX. Nothing else is known about this puppeteer in recent years, at least not yet anyway. At least he got to perform with several Muppet performers during his time with the Creature Shop since they've done numerous projects with the company as well. Maybe at some point in the future, there will be more info about Peter Hurst, like what he's done in recent years. I just hope he's still alive and active in the film indus...

Jeremy Stockwell is a British actor, puppeteer, suit performer, and writer who has been performing in TV and film since 1989. As a puppeteer, he performed on Gophers, Wizadora, and Spacevets, working with several performers who worked with Henson. Some of the puppeteers Jeremy performed with include Phil Eason, Michael Bayliss, Victoria Willing, Sue Dacre, and Francis Wright. The rest of Stockwell's work is mostly on-screen acting for many television shows and films. He had guest appearances on Kavanagh QC, T. Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom, The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells, and The Bill. As for feature film, he only did The Overcoat (also a writer) and Super Connected (as Gregory Hawkins), which is a shame in my opinion. IMDb also states that Jeremy Stockwell does improvisation, mime, and plays numerous musical instruments, to name a few. I've read that he also worked for a company called Sharky & Co., according to the Filmmakers website, and it states that he relocated to ...

George Latshaw was a puppeteer, puppet builder, and author who did so much for the Muppets and the Henson Company during the 1960s and later in 1990. He performed Featherstone and one of the Stepsisters in the 1965 pilot Cinderella, where he performed with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Jerry Nelson. George previously met Henson himself at the 1960 Puppeteers of America festival in Detroit, and I guess that's how he was recruited. Latshaw was probably occupied with other projects after 1965 to do more Muppet stuff like the Tales from Muppetland specials, The Muppet Show pilots, or anything in the 1980s. Outside, he founded Puppeteers of America's official magazine entitled The Puppetry Journal, in 1949 served as the organization president the following year. He later worked with historic puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and also performed a puppet in a 1953 film known as Lili. Several years later, in 1990, George Latshaw served as one of the founding members of The National Puppetry Confere...