All About Muppets

Cedwan Hooks is a puppeteer, suit performer, voice actor, writer, and designer who worked on The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo in the workshop with other Muppet designers. Most of his puppet work was outside on various television shows, films, and stage shows. Some of the TV shows Cedwan did include Helpsters, Donkey Hodie, Moon and Me, and Albie's Elevator, to name a few. As for film work, Hooks did The Curse of Bridge Hollow and Buddy, the latter as a puppeteer, fabricator, and suit performer and coach. He also lent his voice to a few shows such as Elf on the Shelf for example. He even got to work at numerous theme parks such as The DreamWorks Experience, 20th Century Fox World, and Sharden Inc, as well as be in-suit for movie appearances. Other puppeteers Cedwan Hooks got to work with in his career include Christopher Hayes, Jimmica Collins, Tim Lagasse, Rachel Appelbaum, and more. All that training with the Jim Henson Company really paid off as he's now a professional when it...

Brian T. Carson is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and suit performer who is best known for being a residence performer at the Museum of the Moving Image. He is also known for working with the puppet company Creatures Inspired and performing his own puppet creations (ex. Silly Willy) for events. I'll bet Brian felt honored when he was given the job of a puppeteer in residence at MOMI since it's literally located next to the Kaufman Astoria Studios, where Sesame Street is taped. Carson met famous Muppet performers over the years and still does to this day, like Stacey Gordon, Brandon Smith, Sebastiano Ricci, and in the past, he even met Caroll Spinney when the latter was still alive. Outside of the MOMI, he got to perform Tigger for a while on the Off-Broadway show version of Winnie the Pooh. But it's not every day you get to see a resident puppeteer in a museum, I know because I saw him myself recently at one of the Jim Henson 90th birthday events. Anyway, Brian T. Carson has ...

Avery Jones is a puppeteer and puppet builder who is best known for puppeteering Slappy the Dummy in the Goosebumps film series as well as voicing the character for appearances. On Sesame Street, he mostly served as an uncredited additional performer during the 46th season of the show. Avery is also best known for designing, building, and performing puppets and costumes for Big Heater Media, as well as writing, graphic designing, and editing. The puppets Jones made can be seen across the country, on television, and in theaters both community and regional, as well as on a podcast. Some of the other TV shows he worked on, besides Sesame Street, include The Mitchi & Vlad Show, Lonnie's Olympic Journey, and many other shows. As for theatre, he worked at Springer Opera House Arts Association, New Horizon Community Theatre, Aubern Area Community Theatre, and Lagrange Society for the Performing Arts. Avery Jones is probably one of the busiest people in show business considering all of...

Dawnie Marie is a puppeteer, producer, and podcaster known for working with GLOP and making puppet videos on TikTok. She worked alongside several Muppet performers within GLOP as well as others such as Gwen Hollander, Edi Patterson, Cheri Vanden Heuvel, and Anna Wang. Dawnie also hosts her own two podcasts known as Living Swindled Podcast and The Lent List, the latter of which is found on Instagram of course. Marie must've felt very excited when selected to perform alongside female Muppet performers at GLOP, the company where women puppeteers get together and make productions. Maybe someday she will work with them on a future Muppet production, you never know when that will happen. She has also frequently worked with creative producers and puppet makers on projects like Kaleb & Ms. Kelsey for example. Other projects in which Dawnie Marie was involved with include Bonkers and Lazor Wulf, as well as producing for The Rainbow Bridge and Cicadas. She even got to be casting assistan...

Michele Durler was a British actress, writer, and puppeteer who was best known for her work on Playdays appearing on camera as Bisty Bob and performing the puppet Milly Sprocket. She performed alongside Nick Mercer who did Morris Cog as well as the Playdays puppeteers Sally Preisig, Ellie Darvill, and Sue Monroe. Michele also presented on Fun Song Factory, Rotten Ralph, and Sunnyside Up, and also wrote episodes of The Story Makers. I wonder how Durler voiced Milly Sprocket in scenes when she appeared as Bitsy Bob, though my best assumption would be through pre-recorded vocals or something. It's a pity she hasn't done any productions following The Story Makers, but at least she had the chance to puppeteer during select episodes of Playdays. She also worked with three Henson performers, apart from Preisig, including Katherine Smee and Michael Bayliss on a show called The Parkies. Michele Durler must have been interviewed for her work in children's television following her wor...

Julie Burroughs is a Canadian voice actress and puppeteer who performed the role of Tuk on the show Wumpa's World, paired with Jani Lauzon who did Seeka. That was probably the only known production she puppeteered on in her career. Most of Julie's other credits were voiceover roles or dubbing roles in TV shows and films. Some of the shows Burroughs lent her voice to include The Wombles, The Bellflower Bunnies, and Snowsnaps, while her dubbing credits include Arthur, the Total Drama franchise, and many others. It's a shame she only puppeteered on Wumpa's World, but at least she worked with three Sesame Park performers on that show; Lauzon, Pier Paquette, and Tim Gosley. There should be more information about her online besides the websites that already got some of course, whoever knows? Julie Burroughs has also dubbed for international versions of live-action films like Scooby-Doo, Elf, Freaky, and Smile, to name a few. One of these days she'll probably be interviewe...