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Deep Roy

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Deep Roy is a Kenyan-born British actor, puppeteer, and stunt man who has served as one of the many dwarf performers to be additional puppeteers on The Dark Crystal. Other performers he worked with for that film include Sadie Corre, Mike Edmonds, Jack Purvis, and Kiran Shah. Deep is well known for acting in many science fiction and fantasy films similar to how Shah and Warwick Davis work. Roy's first film was in The Pink Panther Strikes Again where he played an assassin mistaken for a child due to his size. He has since gone on to do science fiction films like Star Wars, The Never Ending Story, Flash Gordon, and Return to Oz (opposite Brian Henson). His later film credits have included collaborations with director Tim Burton. Some of the Burton films Deep Roy did include Planet of the Apes (2001), The Corpse Bride, and most notably, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As for his work on television, he did Doctor Who (as Mr. Sin) and guest starred on Blake's 7 and The X-Files. De
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Reese Scott

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Reese Scott is a Canadian puppeteer and puppet builder who served as one of the additional puppeteers on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. In addition, he also built some of the background characters used in the second season, which shows off both of his talents. Reese has often been paired with Brendan James Boyd for they both built and performed puppets on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. Scott must have been excited to assist on the reboot since he got to meet legendary Muppet performers such as Karen Prell, Donna Kimball, and John Tartaglia. Outside, he is one of the co-founders of Puppet Stuff Canada (with Boyd and Meghan Schech) which does professional puppet builds and performances. Some of the projects he did include Fintastic Fun, Creatures of the Deep, Bird is the Word, and UnBEElievable. I'd say that in the future, Reese Scott will have a chance to be put in the Muppet performer category on the Wiki. You never know when he'll get to perform a character on Fraggle Rock o
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Margaret O'Flaherty

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Margaret O'Flaherty is a British puppeteer who doesn't have a lot of information about herself anywhere online. She only did one Muppet film; Muppet Treasure Island, as an additional performer. Margaret also did only one project outside of the film which was The Slow Norris. At least O'Flaherty worked with lots of Muppet performers like Karen Prell, Mike Quinn, Helena Smee, and David Barclay. I only wish she would have done more Muppet films such as The Muppet Christmas Carol or even a Creature Shop film like The Witches. Apparently, she is another one of those puppeteers to be mysterious to the world, despite the amount of projects they do. Margaret O'Flaherty doesn't even have a photo of herself online for the one above probably isn't her, at least not to my knowledge. Other puppeteers that have been mysterious like her include Tim DeHaas, Lynn Hippen, and Virginia Goodfellow. Let's hope she's still alive and busy with her puppetry career across the UK
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Charlotte Levinson

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Charlotte Levinson is a Canadian puppeteer and ventriloquist who served as an additional performer on the Sesame Street film, Follow That Bird. I don't know why she hasn't performed on any other Muppet projects shot in Canada. Before Charlotte was a full-time puppeteer, she was a registered nurse in which puppetry was a hobby and a sideline. Levinson started her professional performances with her "Puppet Relations" characters in the 1970s, doing shows across Canadian schools. That shows that she works well with kids since she's performed for them to be both educated and entertained. She also puppeteered on the series of specials, Miss Peach of the Kelly School (with Daniel Seagren, Eren Ozker, Bob Stutt, Olga Felgemacher, and Dan Redican). Charlotte Levinson was last heard in a 1989 newspaper and no one has heard from her since, at least not to my knowledge. I wonder if she did assist on other Canadian Muppet projects such as Fraggle Rock or Sesame Park, because o
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Brendan James Boyd

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Brendan James Boyd is a Canadian puppeteer and puppet builder who performed in the ensemble on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock since it began. He has also worked in Jim Henson's Creature Shop for the second season, helping to build various minor characters. In the ensemble, Brendan assisted and doubled for many characters when the performers are occupied with other ones. Outside of the show, Boyd is the co-creator and co-owner of Puppet Stuff Canada (with Reese Scott and Meghan Schech, the former also did the show). Together they provided professional puppets and performing services for TV, theater, film, and other venues. Some of the performances the company did include Creatures of the Deep, Bird is the Word, Fintastic Fun, and UnBEElievable. Brendan James Boyd must have felt really excited to join the world of Fraggle Rock when the reboot began filming. I'll bet he was more thrilled when he helped build minor characters for the 2nd season. Let's just hope he'll contin
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Thom Stanley

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Thom Stanley is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and choreographer who served as a "Right Hand Man" for Muppets from Space, choreographing arm movements and assisting. A native of Atlanta, he trained with the Henson Company around the '90s proposed Disney merger, where he studied under Steve Whitmire and Kevin Clash. Thom also worked with Peter Linz when he did his first paid puppetry project, which was a video for the United Way. Outside of the Muppets, Stanley both built and performed puppets for many short films and pilots like Maiden to Monster, Magic the Gathering: The Musical, and Freestyle Love Supreme, to name a few. I've read that he even choreographed puppets on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2007. He was also seen as a regular performer in the Puckin Fuppet Show, part of the National Puppet Slam Network. Thom Stanley seems to be more well known outside of the Muppets since he only assisted in one f
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Georges Mosca

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Georges Mosca is a French artist and puppeteer who performed the Grouch character Mordicus on 1, Rue Sesame, the French co-production of Sesame Street. The only two puppeteers he worked with was Lucien Morisse and Catherine Coste who did Toccata and Trepido respectively. After the show ended production in 1982, Georges became a freelance artist in the Languedoc region of France. Mosca has been sculpting lots of things out of clay, metal, wood, and even bronze. It's a pity he never did any other projects in France involving puppetry. Though he was probably more interested in sculpting rather than puppetry in my opinion. I wonder if Georges Mosca is also a musician since the picture above shows him playing a guitar, though his page on the Muppet Wiki doesn't say anything. He is apparently one of those many puppeteers to also be a sculptor; others have included Kamela Portuges, Bruce Schwartz, Jess Nelson, and Ron Mueck. Maybe someday, he'll be a sculptor in a French puppet wo
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