Chuck Fawcett

Chuck Fawcett is a puppet builder, puppeteer, director, producer, and founder of the puppet workshop in Tennessee known as Animax Designs. Before founding the company in 1989, his career started out as a freelancer working with Kermit Love on international co-productions of Sesame Street with his notable co-production being Sesamstraat in the Netherlands. Chuck built puppets on that show from 1987-1994 including Pino, Ieniemienie, and Tommie, all were mostly through his company. Fawcett was also the builder for Bad Andy on a Domino's Pizza ad campaign in 2000 which didn't last very long, only a few commercials. Animax Designs did work for other international Sesame projects too like Sesam Stasjon, Rechov Sumsum, Sesamstrasse, and many more. As for his puppetry skills, he also trained puppeteers for co-productions around the world from Spain to France to China. Since 2001, Chuck Fawcett works on the actual Sesame Street characters for Sesame Place and other theme parks like Busch Gardens. His company also does training for Walt Disney global theme parks and have made puppets, costumes, sets, and props for other productions. Some of the projects he worked on include Sing Me a Story with Belle, Trollies, Wish-a-Roo Park (producer & director), and countless other ones over the years. Chuck seems to be a master at doing international co-productions of Sesame Street and his company has been doing so well on every single project they've worked on. Fawcett should be glad to create Animax Designs in 1989 because it's been a huge success since and probably will be for years to come. From building and performing puppets to producing and directing them, he's done so wonderful at his company and doing entertainment. There's no telling what he'll do next. Chuck Fawcett, you've done terrific on international co-productions of Sesame Street, building puppets and training puppeteers to operate them. Keep up the great work at Animax Designs. Your friends Eddie May, Jeff Conover, and others should be proud to be supervised by you. Wonderful coordination and creations Chuck. You're the boss now Fawcett!

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