Carla Rudy

Carla Rudy is a puppeteer, voice actress, and writer who performed in the Henson Alternative's Puppet Up in June 2008. She has also been selected to participate in a Sesame Street puppet workshop at their headquarters that same year. If Carla participated for Sesame Workshop, then why hasn't she performed on the show itself? Rudy was probably more comfortable to perform in California than fly to New York where Sesame Street was taped. Outside of Puppet Up, she puppeteered in various other projects like Mack & Moxy, Oscar's Hotel, Team America: World Police, Stool Pigeon, and many more. She also puppeteered with the musician Beck's world tour, which made appearances on Saturday Night Live, MTV, and Jimmy Kimmel Live, all of which count as TV credits. Carla Rudy's stage credits include The Little Prince, Bear in the Big Blue House Live, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, and more. Her voice can be heard in three shows, Automation, Armed Forces Radio, and Nougat. Her website states that she was invited to a scriptwriting workshop by Muppets own Jerry Juhl. Carla is also one of those people to tour with a musician which was where she got the touch of music in her puppet career. Rudy must be proud to be one of those people to puppeteer, voice act, and write for numerous projects over the years and also lucky to do a Sesame Street puppeteer workshop. She is also one of those puppeteers to work with Swazzle for a few projects, alongside Patrick Johnson and Sean Johnson. Other puppeteers she got to work with include BJ Guyer, James Murray, and Allan Trautman, and who knows maybe she'll meet more Muppet performers in the future. Carla Rudy, you've done so well on Puppet Up and all of those other productions throughout your career. You've done improv, live entertainment, scripts, puppet builds and so much more. Keep up the great work and also remember how lucky you were to meet legendary Muppet writer Jerry Juhl before his death in 2005. You sure are busy Carla. Hats off to you Rudy!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Heather Quinn

Image
Heather Quinn is a British puppeteer, cosplayer, singer, and gossiper who did many puppet characters for social media. She is also the only puppeteer who does cosplay, in other words, dresses and acts like their favorite character from a show. Heather also has a love for anything vintage, which I personally find to be unique for a person to like things from the past. Quinn hasn't done anything Muppet-related in her life, in fact she's probably never even heard of the Muppets or the Henson Company. However she has puppeteered many times for social media such as TikTok and Instagram. One of her puppets resembles an Ewok from the Star Wars franchise, which could give a clue that she's a Star Wars fan as well. In addition to puppetry, Heather Quinn has been gossiping on her website about her activities, her travels, as well as her habit of drinking tea. She's also sung all of Sondheim's Company, Into the Woods, and Sweeney Todd, as stated by her on her own website. Ther...
Read more

Gordon Robertson

Image
Gordon Robertson is a Canadian puppeteer who has performed on and off with the Muppets for many years. His most notable work with them was on Fraggle Rock as the body of Pa Gorg and various other characters on the series. Gordon has also performed with the Muppets on The Jim Henson Hour, The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years, The Muppets Wizard of Oz, and more. Robertson even performed on the Sesame Street film Follow That Bird and it's Canadian co-production Sesame Park. His Creature Shop work has placed him on TNMT II, The Neverending Story, and Cats & Dogs. Outside of his work with the Muppets, he performed with Shari Lewis on Lamb Chop's Play-Along and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza. Apart from her, Gordon Robertson did various other shows, his most notable ones were Zoboomafoo and Groundling Marsh. He got to work alongside many performers such as Robert Mills, Trish Leeper, Stephen Brathwaite, and Wende Welch, to name a few. Perhaps his best known characters were Zobo...
Read more

Amanda Glass

Image
Amanda Glass is a British puppeteer and costume maker who puppeteered on season 1 of Sooty (2011) as well as part of the third season. She also puppeteered on the Sooty video Sooty: The Big Day Out as well as making many of the puppets' costumes on the series. Besides doing Sooty, Amanda was also an additional puppeteer on Mongrels for three episodes. I personally think Glass should have puppeteered on a project by either the Muppets or the Henson Company (mostly in the Creature Shop). It's currently unknown what the performer looks like since the picture above either has her on camera or under one of the puppets. On both Sooty and Mongrels, other puppeteers she performed with include Iestyn Evans, Yvonne Stone, Simon Buckley, and Toby Olie, to name a few. Maybe someday Amanda Glass will have her chance to meet one of the Muppet performers in the UK or maybe she will learn about the Henson Company online. Nobody really knows whatever happened to her after 2018 when she did seas...
Read more