Anna Cummer

Anna Cummer is an Asian-Canadian voice actress, actress, and puppeteer who did additional puppetry on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock alongside other newcomer puppeteers. She has had no experience in puppetry before working on the show and John Tartaglia and Frank Meschkuleit probably trained her to perform a puppet. Anna is more known for her voice in many animated shows and animes. Cummer is best known in her career for voicing the title character in the Strawberry Shortcake franchise for exactly six years (2009-2015). She has also voice acted in Barbie, Care Bears, and My Little Pony, to name a few. Her anime dub credits have placed her in Maison Ikkoku, Galaxy Angel, MegaMan: NT Warrior, and various others. I wonder how Anna Cummer got selected to perform on Fraggle Rock and when she heard about the Henson Company. Since she lives in Alberta, Canada where the show was filmed, word about a Fraggle Rock reboot must have spread and flyers were held out for puppeteer workshops. She did pretty good as a first time puppeteer and I think she should give it another try someday. One of the best parts is that Anna got to meet Muppet performers such as Karen Prell, Jordan Lockhart, and Donna Kimball, just to name a few. I hope that Cummer will have another chance to work on a Henson project when they decide to film something in Canada again. It might not happen yet but it will. Anna Cummer, for a first timer, you did pretty good performing on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. You also did great acting and voice acting on many projects over the years of you career. I hope you will keep voice acting and maybe someday you'll do puppetry again. Keep that voice loud & clear Anna. Well done Cummer!

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