All About Muppets

Eliza Skinner is an actress, puppeteer, writer, and producer whose only work with the Henson Company was on Earth to Ned. She served as head writer, executive producer, and served as additional puppeteer for a couple of episodes. This proves that Eliza has puppeteered at least a couple of times. Outside of that, Skinner has acted on various other shows like BBQ Dads, Adam Ruins Everything, Take My Wife, and 52 Ways to Break Up, to name a few. She's also a writer on many TV programs like The Late Late Show with James Corden, Fashion Police, and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Her writing credits seem to be much smaller than her acting credits. At least Eliza Skinner still performed on one Henson Company project, despite Earth to Ned ending in 2021. Her life can also improve because she got to meet some of the famous Muppet puppeteers like Genevieve Flati, Colleen Smith, Michael Oosterom, and more. If she continues to work with the Henson Company, she could meet a lot more puppete...

Genevieve Flati is an actress, puppeteer, producer, and clown who worked in various Henson Company projects. In 2019, she appeared as a member of the Puppet Up improv troupe in their shows at The Jim Henson Company Lot, performing many puppets. Genevieve's latest work with Henson was on the show Earth to Ned as an additional performer for many episodes. Flati also puppeteered on All Sewn Up, Kookamakaluka, and an episode of Big Mouth. Outside of puppetry, she has been a clown in the Ringling Brother Circus National Tour and lived on a circus train performing in tours across America and Mexico. She is one of the many puppeteers to also be a clown, others include Star Townshend, Sue Morrison, and Fred Garbo. Genevieve Flati is probably most famous for being the creator/director of (Wo)men Rule Broadway, a production which women can perform any song or role they wanted. She has also worked as a performer and puppeteer for Disneyland and Disney Junior Live on Stage for 5 1/2 years. It...

Michael Latini is a puppeteer, designer, and builder who only performed with The Muppets troupe on the series finale of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I've read that one of his earliest puppetry roles was operating Bear to a pre-recorded track by Noel MacNeal for Bear in the Big Blue House Live. Outside of the Muppets, Michael co-founded the company Monkey Boys Productions alongside Marc Petrosino, Scott Hits, and Russel Tucker. I also read Latini helped create a puppet version of Velvet for the Sesame Place show, Elmo the Musical which went on since 2014. Outside of that, he and Petrosino both made and performed puppets for various projects such as Saturday Night Live, Little Shop of Horrors, Planet Camp, and Helpsters, to name a few. His website states that he did puppeteer on Sesame Street as well as freelance projects like Avenue Q and Johnny and the Sprites. If Michael Latini performed on Sesame Street, then he was probably uncredited for doing so, like his friend Marc. Though ...

Dave Taylor is a British producer, director, and writer who was trained to puppeteer by Brian Henson in his early career. He ended up performing with the Muppets on a bunch of UK-based projects in the 1990s such as The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, and The Muppet CD-ROM. I don't know why Dave doesn't write, produce, or direct a project featuring the Muppets. Taylor has also puppeteered and animated for Nickelodeon UK before switching to becoming a producer and director. How come he wanted to be a filmmaker rather than a puppeteer? He's done a great job assisting the Muppets in several UK projects during the 1990s. I've read that he won a Children's BAFTA Award in 2006 and 2009 for his work with Nick Jr. He also won an International Emmy Award in 2014 for producing Pet School. I wish Taylor would have assisted the Muppets in Muppets Most Wanted. He could be trained to puppeteer again by Bill Barretta who served as puppet captain. But I guess Dave wa...

William Banyard is a British puppeteer who has served as an additional puppeteer on several UK-based projects by the Muppets and Henson. His most notable (yet only) ones were That Puppet Game Show, Muppets Most Wanted, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. But how come William hasn't done any other projects featuring either the Muppets or Henson? It is probably because Banyard was been very busy outside of both companies. Outside of those three projects, he has puppeteered on Solo: A Star Wars Story and two Jurassic World films. His TV work includes Space Pirates, Big Babies, Bear Behaving Badly, and ZingZillas. William Banyard got to puppeteer alongside other UK puppeteers like Dave Chapman, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, and Sarah Burgess, to name a few. However, I wish he would have assisted the Muppets when they performed at the O2 Arena live in 2018 along with other British puppeteers. But I guess he was too occupied with The Dark Crystal or something to participate. Based on Willi...

Phoebe Rudman is the daughter of core Muppet performer David Rudman who assisted her father for a variety of at home productions. She was mainly the right hand for Cookie Monster in several Sesame Street's Caring for Each Other web videos and in the special Elmo's Playdate. If Phoebe assisted her father for Sesame Street, does that mean she assisted for the Muppets? Rudman must have done that as she was given special thanks credits for Muppets Now. She also received special thanks for the two Sesame Street at home specials. Like Jack Vogel, she is another child who has assisted their father for both the Muppets and Sesame Street from home. David must be very proud to have Phoebe Rudman assist him on Cookie Monster and his Muppet characters. I wonder if she has ever considered working with her father on the show other than just doing web videos and two specials. She's done that for the Muppets, why not Sesame Street? If Phoebe can manage to keep her arm in the air like her d...