Brendan James Boyd

Brendan James Boyd is a Canadian puppeteer and puppet builder who performed in the ensemble on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock since it began. He has also worked in Jim Henson's Creature Shop for the second season, helping to build various minor characters. In the ensemble, Brendan assisted and doubled for many characters when the performers are occupied with other ones. Outside of the show, Boyd is the co-creator and co-owner of Puppet Stuff Canada (with Reese Scott and Meghan Schech, the former also did the show). Together they provided professional puppets and performing services for TV, theater, film, and other venues. Some of the performances the company did include Creatures of the Deep, Bird is the Word, Fintastic Fun, and UnBEElievable. Brendan James Boyd must have felt really excited to join the world of Fraggle Rock when the reboot began filming. I'll bet he was more thrilled when he helped build minor characters for the 2nd season. Let's just hope he'll continue to do Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock or, maybe someday, help out on another Henson Company show. Brendan has to show more of the world what a skilled puppeteer and puppet builder he is. Boyd should be proud to be the founder and owner of Puppet Stuff Canada, you never know if that's where he was hooked up for the show. Since his company is one of the recent ones, he'll probably do more productions within it as well as make more puppets. Still, he should be honored to work with John Tartaglia, Karen Prell, Donna Kimball, and many others on Fraggle Rock. Brendan James Boyd, you've done wonderful on Fraggle Rock and you're still doing great with Puppet Stuff Canada. Keep up the great puppet career because that's where your stardom is. Never have doubts when you think you're unable to do something. Until then, excellent puppet build and performance Brendan. You "Fraggle Rock" Boyd!

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