All About Muppets

Heather Quinn is a British puppeteer, cosplayer, singer, and gossiper who did many puppet characters for social media. She is also the only puppeteer who does cosplay, in other words, dresses and acts like their favorite character from a show. Heather also has a love for anything vintage, which I personally find to be unique for a person to like things from the past. Quinn hasn't done anything Muppet-related in her life, in fact she's probably never even heard of the Muppets or the Henson Company. However she has puppeteered many times for social media such as TikTok and Instagram. One of her puppets resembles an Ewok from the Star Wars franchise, which could give a clue that she's a Star Wars fan as well. In addition to puppetry, Heather Quinn has been gossiping on her website about her activities, her travels, as well as her habit of drinking tea. She's also sung all of Sondheim's Company, Into the Woods, and Sweeney Todd, as stated by her on her own website. Ther...

Sally McCormack is a British puppeteer, actress, and teacher who is known for doing television, stage, and film for years. She performed Why Bird for a national tour of Playdays Live on Stage and has also served as an additional performer for the Frank Oz film Little Shop of Horrors. Sally's other live shows include MacBeth, Hound of the Baskervilles in Leatherhead, and The Importance of Being Earnest. As for television, McCormack appeared on Angels, Likin' Hitler, Plastic Man, and more while film put her in Pinewood and Driven. It's a shame she hasn't done a lot of puppetry over her years in show business but at least she worked with several Muppet performers on Little Shop of Horrors. Currently she a part of a workshop known as Matrix Realms which has done school workshops, live shows, testimonials, and armchair theatres. Other puppeteers Sally McCormack worked with include Sue Monroe, David Greenaway, Phil Eason, and Marcus Clarke, to name a few. She must have felt v...

John Nolan is a Canadian puppeteer who only performed within the Sesame Park special Basil Hears a Noise, alongside his wife Kathy MacLellan. The pair have been performing together since they've both founded Rag & Bone Puppet Theatre. John has also puppeteered on Under the Umbrella Tree and Crazy Quilt (as Jackson) both of which his wife was a writer and puppeteer. Nolan should've worked on other Sesame or Henson stuff filmed in Canada like Follow That Bird or Brats of the Lost Nebula. Perhaps he was much too busy at his company to do so. At Rag & Bone Puppet Theatre, he has alternated between narrating and puppeteering bunraku style for many shows both past and present. In the past, John Nolan did MacBeth, A Bauchan in the Family, The Story of Holly and Ivy, The Snow Queen, and more. As for the current years, he now does The Nightingale, The Dolls' House, and Zoom at Sea, as well as others in the works. Apart from his wife, other puppeteers he worked with have incl...

Michael Coleman was a British ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet (at the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden), but he's still a freelance dancer. With ballet veterans Graham Fletcher and Julian Hosking, he appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show dancing as Mutations. I wonder if Michael did some other episodes of The Muppet Show too since there have been instances of that. Other than that, Coleman did many stage dance performances such as Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Swan Lake, and Cinderella. As for film, he did The Tales of Beatrix Potter and The Slipper and the Rose, not to mention a TV performance of The Nutcracker. He must have done other episodes of The Muppet Show as one of the Bird Dancers or Mutations both seen in several episodes. Michael Coleman even met a few Muppet Show guest stars, well two actually, Leslie Uggams and Rudolf Nureyev. I wonder if his friends ever shared to him their experiences on The Muppet Show since Graham Fletcher did numerous appearances with them. ...

Friedrich Wollweber is a German puppeteer who performed Buh on Sesamstrasse from 1989-2002 for the character was dropped that year. He also appeared on-camera as a suspicious man in a 1993 episode of the same show. Other than Sesamstrasse itself, Friedrich also performed Gunni for the 1st season of the Sesamstrasse spin-off series called Eine Mohre fur Zwei. Wollweber also played Santa Claus in a Sesamstrasse Christmas special translated as Christmas with Ernie & Bert. Outside of the show and its spin-offs, he performed Poldi and Nero on the German puppet series Hallo Spencer, alongside Andrea Bongers, Karime Vakilzadeh, and Joachim Hall, to name a few. I read that he even served as the model for a photo book called Heinrich's Welt. It's a pity that Friedrich Wollweber didn't stay on Sesamstrasse after 2002 when Buh was retired, I'll bet he did wonderful as an owl. I personally think he should have continued the role of Buh because a character being dropped for no r...