Paul Zaloom

Paul Zaloom is an actor, puppeteer, and writer who is another puppeteer who has mainly been a guest star for the Muppets and Sesame Street. In 1989, he appeared in a Henson pilot called Inner Tube where he did a video pirate character named after his last name. In 2013, Paul appeared on Sesame Street in an episode of its 43rd season. Zaloom showed Murray and Ovejita his dummy, Buster, and then explained different ways to make puppets out of everyday objects. He got to appear with both Joey Mazzarino and Carmen Osbahr, two of the Sesame Street performers. Outside of those two appearances, he is perhaps best known for performing the title character on Beakman's World, which didn't have a lot of puppetry except for two penguins. Paul Zaloom has also written, designed, & performed eleven full-length one-man shows like Fruit of Zaloom, Sick but True, Mighty Mice, and The Mother of All Enemies. One of them was a shadow-puppet show featuring a traditional puppet character named Karagoz. I never knew that he has also performed shadow-puppets like Jon Ludwig. Other than the shadow-puppets, Paul has had many techniques such as toy theater, dummy puppets, and many more. Zaloom make a great guest star for the Muppets in their next project. I just wish Beakman would be a puppet so he could entertain many people with his character. Like Shari Lewis and Mallory Lewis, he also worked with few Muppet performers. Paul Zaloom, you're one of the masters of puppetry and a pro at playing Beakman. I hope that you are still performing today as Beakman or doing other kinds of puppetry. Until then, remember how much of an honor it was to work on that episode of the 43rd season of Sesame Street. There's no telling when you'll be guest starring with Muppets again Paul. You're a puppeteer genius Zaloom!