Paul Currie

Paul Currie is a Northern-Irish puppeteer, puppet maker, circus/street performer, and stand up comedian who performed Potto on Sesame Tree. He also performed on the Henson Company series Pajanimals, as an assistant puppeteer and performed many recurring roles. Paul even assisted and played hotel guests on The Furchester Hotel, another international co-production of Sesame Street. Currie initially had no idea of this Northern Irish Sesame show until he encountered Lisa Henson at a festival and I guess that is how he got called. Along with the other Sesame Tree performers, he trained with Martin P. Robinson in the audition workshop for preparation. Outside of Sesame Tree and Pajanimals, he designs, builds, & performs puppets around Ireland, for many festivals and theatre shows. Lately, he designed and built a puppet named DJ Scrunter for the BBC Northern Ireland show called Teethgrinder. Paul Currie should have worked in the Creature Shop since he both designed and built puppets on many occasions. He got to work alongside many Irish puppeteers such as Lesa Gillespie, Alana Kerr, Sarah Lyle, Helen Sloan, and Beccy Henderson. He should've done The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as an assistant, since it features American, British, and Northern Irish puppeteers. Back in 2001, Paul met his friend Michael McNulty and together they made foam puppets and wrote very unusual puppet shows under the name Kernal Trapps Puppets. Another thing Currie and McNulty have in common is that they were formerly Punch and Judy performers in different years. As a comedian, he performed many shows across Ireland and who knows, maybe the world. Let's hope he'll keep giving entertainment for people cross the globe by puppetry, comedy, and street performing. Paul Currie, you're one of the funniest Northern Irish men to be considered a puppeteer. Keep on performing and creating things until you decide to retire. There is no one who can replace such a fine entertainer. Excellent job Paul. No biz like show biz Currie!