All About Muppets

David Joyner is an actor, suit performer, and therapist who is best known for being in-suit as Barney from 1991-2001 on Barney & Friends and its predecessor Barney & the Backyard Gang. He played the loveable purple dinosaur for six seasons, numerous home videos, and a couple concerts, all with Bob West doing the voice of Barney. Though I bet David had extreme difficulty physically performing the character as he was in a heavy costume biting down on a rod that moves Barney's mouth. Over the years, Joyner got to interact with a few Muppet performers like Alice Dinnean and Noel MacNeal in the Kids for Character video, doing their characters from The Puzzle Place. Non-Muppet performers he met include Todd Duffey, Brice Armstrong, and Earl Fisher who did the puppet characters from Seasons 4-6, though they were all built by James Kroupa's company. In later years, he also was the suit performer of the title character on the show Hip Hop Harry from 2006-2008 and 2016-2019. Besi...

Carlos Marttelo is a Mexican puppeteer and voice actor best-known for his work on Plaza Sesamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street. During the 2005 and 2010 seasons, he played various minor characters consisting of Anything Muppets and AM Monsters, as well as dubbing occasional inserts. Since 2011, Carlos performed the role of Elmo on the series in the "plaza" segments and the dubbing on both the series and web videos. Marttelo should be proud to perform and dub an international version of the little red monster just like every Elmo performer around the world. Other puppeteers he got to work with on the show include Verenice Callejo, Alfonso Soto, Maripaz Garcia, and Igor Cruz, to name a few. Outside of Plaza Sesamo, he provided additional voices in Spanish dubs of Lost, Legally Blondes, Hannah Montana: The Movie, and A Beautiful Mind. As for cartoon dubs, Carlos Marttelo mostly did Disney projects such as Prep & Landing, Tinker Bell & the Lost Treasure, and T...

Scott Land is a puppeteer, actor, producer, and puppet builder best known for working with marionettes at Bob Baker Marionettes and his own marionette company. He puppeteered on The Princess Diaries films, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Still Breathing, and most notably, Team America: World Police, some of which he also designed and built puppets. Scott has been highly trained by Bob Baker himself to work with both puppets and marionettes, after all he built puppets and was his roadshow puppeteer. Land also appeared on camera as a father for a Kidsongs home video and as Binky on an episode of Shades of LA. In addition to Baker, he got to perform alongside numerous other puppeteers such as Greg Ballora, Tony Urbano, Frank Langley, and Michael Earl, to name a few. He even got to show off his puppetry skills on an episode of America's Got Talent, though he only auditioned and didn't get to actually be live on stage. Scott Land is still best known by people for his work on Team America...

Gerald Home was a British actor and puppeteer who was best known for his work on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, playing Tessek and a Mon Calamari officer. His other film credits include Little Shop of Horrors (as one of Audrey II's puppeteers), London Boulevard, and Chatroom. As for television, Gerald was one of the puppeteers on Spitting Image and made appearances on The Boot Street Band, Casualty, Harry's Mad, Keeping Mum, and various others. Home was also known for being the original Mr. Muscle in a batch of Mr. Muscle cleaning brand television commercials. As a puppeteer, he got to perform with legends such as Anthony Asbury, Mike Quinn, David Barclay, and Christopher Leith, all on Little Shop of Horrors. It was probably easier for him to puppeteer on Spitting Image as the film had complicated puppets. Gerald Home even got to work in the theatre within the West End of London area, like on No Sex Please, We're British, The Arabian Nights, and The Blue Angel, to name a fe...

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...