All About Muppets

Noel MacNeal is a puppeteer, writer, and director who is best known for performing the title character on Bear in the Big Blue House. He also performed various characters on Sesame Street, including many Snuffleupaguses such as Sally Snuffleupagus. I've read that the very first Muppet that Noel performed was a cashier in a Sesame Street sketch. For the Muppets, MacNeal has mainly performed within Little Muppet Monsters, Muppet Meeting Films, and A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa (where he played Sweetums). Outside of Sesame Street and Bear, he performed on a variety of shows such as Eureeka's Castle, The Puzzle Place, and Oobi, his best known ones. Other puppet credits include Blue's Room, The Book of Pooh, and Between the Lions (replacing Anthony Asbury). Noel MacNeal also contributed scripts for The Magic School Bus and Cyberchase, as well as two shows mentioned above. I have read that he got to puppeteer Big Bird several times such as a scene in Follow That Bird and ...

Stephanie D'Abruzzo is a puppeteer, voice actress, writer, and singer who is best known for working on Sesame Street since 1993. She started out on Sesame Street as background/one-shot characters before gaining more major characters such as Elizabeth, Lulu, and Curly Bear. Stephanie's best known Henson show was on The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss as various characters for both seasons. D'Abruzzo has also occasionally worked with the Muppets on a few Today appearances, A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa, a Mastercard commercial, and The Muppets Mayhem. I've read that David Rudman was the first puppeteer she came in contact with. Outside of Sesame Street and Dr. Seuss, she performed on a variety of shows such as The Puzzle Place, Oobi, Binyah Binyah, and Jack's Big Music Show, to name a few. As a voice actress, Stephanie D'Abruzzo has also voiced animated characters in Sesame Street segments and her voice can be heard in The Book of Pooh and Sheep in the Big Ci...

Camille Bonora is a former puppeteer and writer who was best known for performing many characters for both Sesame Street and the Muppets. From the mid-1980's to 1996, she traveled between America, Canada, and the UK to work in various productions. Camille's first performance with the Muppets was on Little Muppet Monsters as Molly Monster. Bonora started performing on Sesame Street in 1986 and retired in 1996 performing characters such as Ruby, Goldilocks, and Meryl Sheep. She was also a main performer on the Play-Along video series alongside Kevin Clash as a pair of siblings and others. Her final work with the Muppets was in a Muppet Sing-Along video based on the film Muppet Treasure Island. The last show Camille Bonora puppeteered on was an episode of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss as a character Stephanie D'Abruzzo took over later. Muppet Wiki states that she served on the editorial board at a journal in Manhattan. After leaving Sesame Street, most of her characters we...

Jim Martin is a puppeteer, director, and puppet builder who worked with the Muppets beginning in the 1980's. On Sesame Street, he performed Preston Rabbit and various one-shot characters from seasons 19-44 before transitioning into directing. Jim directed various specials, videos, and spin-offs and was the main director of Elmo's World. Martin also worked with the Muppets on various other stuff such as The Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppet Meeting Films, and a couple of videos. He has also performed on Dog City and directed several episodes of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss and Bear in the Big Blue House (also assistant). Outside of the Muppets and Sesame Street, he performed on shows such as The Puzzle Place (which he also served as director), The Great Space Coaster, Captain Kangaroo (also a builder) and Once Upon a Tree. Jim Martin also directed certain episodes on Between the Lions and Johnny and the Sprites. I'm glad that he's another Muppet performer who can direc...

Anthony Asbury is a puppeteer, actor, and director who has worked in many Henson Company projects starting with 1986. He puppeteered on the Creature Shop films Labyrinth and The Witches where he got to work under the direction of Jim Henson. Anthony's best known Henson show was on The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, performing various characters and directing an episode. Asbury could have worked with the Muppets or Sesame Street, but I guess he had his own dreams. Outside of Henson, he has done various other projects such as Allegra's Window, Spitting Image, Little Shop of Horrors, and Between the Lions (where he performed Lionel and others, acted on-screen, and directed segments). He has also performed for theater as well, in shows like The Haggadah and the Broadway version of Little Shop of Horrors. In the film version, Anthony Asbury got to work under the direction of Frank Oz too. He has often been paired with other performers like Kathryn Mullen, Martin P. Robinson, and Lou...

Kathryn Mullen is a puppeteer, writer, producer, and director who is best known for puppeteering since 1978. Her first job with the Muppets was on The Muppet Movie before performing episodic characters on The Muppet Show. Kathryn also played various characters on Sesame Street in Seasons 10-16 and 22-24, not to mention in their first film Follow That Bird. But Mullen's most recognizable work was working on Fraggle Rock as Mokey Fraggle, Cotterpin Doozer, and others. For the Creature Shop, she puppeteered on The Dark Crystal (the heroine) and Labyrinth. Her time with the Muppets went on in the late 1980s and 1990s with The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, performing various characters in the first season and serving as a director in the second season. Outside of Fraggle Rock and the Muppets, Kathryn Mullen performed on lots of other projects such as The Empire Strikes Back (assisting Frank Oz), Allegra's Window, and Between the Lions (in which she co-created, performed Leona and o...

Karen Prell is a puppeteer, writer, and animator who is known for performing with the Muppets since 1979. She started out playing small roles on The Muppet Show during its last season. Karen also played a bunch of characters on Sesame Street for seasons 11, 12, and 50. But Prell's best known work was on Fraggle Rock as Red Fraggle and others, which was her biggest accomplishment. Her film work placed her in Labyrinth, The Muppets Christmas Carol, and The Muppets (2011), to name a few. I read that she also met her temporary husband Mike Quinn while doing one of the films. Karen Prell's other Henson shows include The Ghost of Faffner Hall, Mother Goose Stories, and The Animal Show (Season 1) as various characters. Outside of Henson, she co-founded a puppet company called Ultimate Animates Productions where she wrote and performed on shows like Great Bong and The Slow Norris. She is also an animator for several Pixar productions such as A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2, not to me...