Fiona Gentle

Fiona Gentle is an Australian puppeteer, writer, director, and choreographer who has puppeteered on Farscape from Seasons 2-4. She served as part of the team on Pilot, Rygel, and episodic creatures with many puppeteers like Mat McCoy, Graeme Haddon, and Sean Masterson. Fiona also puppeteered on the Australian Sesame Street interstitial series Play Along with Ollie and later Me and My Monsters. I read Gentle has started puppeteering and performing in 1995 and has done that for film, television, and theater since. Outside of Farscape, she has served as assistant animatronic performer for the film Babe: Pig in the City, her only known film. Other than Babe, she has her own company, Mirror Productions Pty Ltd, that has produced theater and music productions. Fiona Gentle is another puppeteer to have her own company like Jim Henson with the Henson Company or Sally Preisig with Mimic Productions. On IMDb, it states she has consulted on many puppetry and movement film projects, not to mention write, direct, and choreograph theater productions. I wonder if Mirror Productions Pty Ltd has ever done any projects featuring puppetry. Fiona's other works featuring puppetry include Didi & B, Humpty's Big Adventure, and The Red Tree, just to name a couple. Gentle worked many of the Henson performers, including the ones mentioned above, like John Eccleston, Alice Osborne and David Collins. Farscape is probably her most well known Creature Shop project, though there should be more Henson Company projects filmed in Australia for the future. Let's just hope she's still working with Mirror Productions to this current day. Fiona Gentle, you've done great with the Creature Shop and with the Ollie thing. Keep up the great work with Mirror Productions Pty Ltd. You've got some talent Fiona. G'day Gentle!

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