Andrea Detwiler

Andrea Detwiler is a puppet builder and wrangler who is one of the main builders/designers on Sesame Street from seasons 34-46, initially doing freelance work for the Henson Company. In addition to doing Sesame Street, she also did Bear in the Big Blue House, some Muppet projects, and Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, to name a few. Andrea even got to be a utility puppeteer within the Creature Shop film Five Nights at Freddy's with Andrea Gilletti, Russ Walko, Brett O'Quinn, and several others. Detwiler should be proud to build and wrangle puppets for all of those projects over the years, even receiving numerous Emmy nominations while on Sesame Street. Outside, she got to wrangle on Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works, Helpsters, and even the Star Wars mini-series Obi-Wan Kenobi, I think. I could be wrong about the latter because IMDb isn't entirely true lots of times. I wonder why Andrea Detwiler stopped working on Sesame Street after its 46th season, she was doing such as great job. It was probably to make room for new designers/builders, but she still works with the Henson Company to this very day. She should've also given puppetry a shot while on Sesame Street, they could always use some assistants for the main puppeteers. Hopefully, Andrea still remembers her time on Sesame Street and doing the Sesame-related projects as well over the years, like Sesame Beginnings. As long as Detwiler continues to build/wrangle for many Henson Company projects, she'll go down in history for what she's done. Never underestimate someone who has tried to win an Emmy, but able to get nominated anyhow. When more productions are being filmed, she's bound to be there. Andrea Detwiler, you were wonderful on Sesame Street, and you still are with the Henson Company currently. Keep on designing, building, and/or wrangling puppets for Henson and you'll be added to their list as one of the main people in the workshop. I'm sure you still got the memories from your past Sesame Street career. Crafty job Andrea. You're a puppet pro Detwiler!

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