Tom Vandenberg

Tom Vandenberg is a Canadian puppeteer, puppet builder, and artistic director who worked with the Muppets during the mid-1980's. He mostly performed on Fraggle Rock as a couple minor/background characters and has also assisted on Sesame Street's Follow That Bird. Tom has been performing live and for the camera for many years on many productions, though it's unknown to me. Vandenberg performed on various Canadian TV shows and films occasionally, but his most well known project was making and performing many puppets for The Adventures of Snelgrove Snail. I read he is currently performing live puppet shows in schools, libraries, and events in Toronto through his own company called T.V. Puppetree. The company has done various children shows through classic songs, Aesop's Fables, and even original shows they made up. Tom Vandenberg even did a variety show called Tom's Amazing Cats which features many acts that people are fond of such as magic, live animals, and you guessed it, puppets. Maybe he should have also assisted on Sesame Street's Canadian co-production Sesame Park, since he's terrific at working with kids over the years. His page on the Wiki states that he is also past president of the Ontario Puppetry Association and some of his puppetry items are in the collection of the Canadian Museum of History. Though there's one thing, Tom played the Blustering Bellowpane Monster on Fraggle Rock so doesn't that technically make him a Muppet performer? You never know when the Wiki will put Vandenberg in a different category. Other than that, he's still doing wonderful performing live puppet shows across Canada. As well as performing puppets on occasion for television and film, which shows that he's still an active man. Tom Vandenberg, you've done well working with the Muppets on both Fraggle Rock and Follow That Bird. Keep up the great work with puppets. Not to mention, remanence about your past work. Excellent puppetry Tom. Right on Vandenberg!