Francine Woods

Francine Woods is a Northern-Irish puppeteer who was one of the assistant puppeteers on Pajanimals, the only known show she did. There's hardly a page nor information about her on the Muppet Wiki and online as well. Even though Francine only did Pajanimals, she worked with many puppeteers from the Henson Company like Beccy Henderson, Paul Currie, Sarah Lyle, Olly Taylor, and Josh Elwell. Woods should have done more projects with the company like on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, since many Pajanimals performers worked on it. She should also have information about herself online such as a self-portrait, the picture above is a different female puppeteer. This makes her yet another puppeteer with hardly any information about herself, which is a problem on Muppet Wiki if you ask me. Others have included Rhonda Gdasi, Brian Knatchbull, Paula Everett, and more, making Francine Woods not the only one on this blog to be unknown to the public. Even though it's acknowledged as a post 2004 production, Pajanimals is still technically a Henson Company project. Hopefully in the future, she will be discovered by an interviewer and maybe then there will be information about her. Francine simply doesn't deserve to be unknown by the public. Just because Woods did one puppet series, doesn't mean she probably did more than that. It makes more sense because one project is never enough for a career to go on for that long. Let's hope one of the puppeteers of Pajanimals still remembers this woman and keeps in touch with her whenever they get a chance to. Francine Woods, just because you only did one Henson Company project, doesn't mean you shouldn't have no information about yourself. You never know when someone will want to know more about you and what other shows you did. Give it a little thought and come out of hiding if you're up to it. Good luck Francine. You're no mystery Woods!

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