Phillip Huber

Phillip Huber is a puppeteer and puppet designer who served as an additional puppeteer in John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together. He must have been pretty excited to work alongside the Muppets and country singer-songwriter John Denver back in 1979. Phillip later gained attention for his work on Being John Malkovich, where he both designed and performed the marionettes used by John Cusack's character with Lee Armstrong. Huber is the founder and head puppeteer of The Huber Marionettes, a company that did a whole lot of projects including screen, stage, and even live concerts. Some projects by his company includes Cabaret, Suspended Animation, Road to Hollywood, and Oz, The Great and Powerful, to name a few. He seems to have a lot of experience with marionettes much like several other performers that worked with the Muppets like Olga Felgemacher, Faz Fazakas, and Michael Earl. Could assisting the Muppets give Phillip Huber the inspiration to start his own company? Or maybe he already had his company before working on John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together. But it doesn't really matter to when he started The Huber Marionettes as far as I'm concerned. Phillip was last heard in an interview for the Under the Puppet podcast. Huber should continue to work with marionettes until he decides to retire from performing. I'm not saying he has to, but he's been designing and performing marionettes for many years. There's no telling what he's going to do next. Phillip Huber, you've done a great job with the Muppets back in 1979, and you've been doing wonderful ever since. I hope you will remember all of those great projects you've done over the years, most notably in Being John Malkovich back in 1999. Excellent marionette design and performance Phillip. You're totally 'strung up' Huber!