All About Muppets

June Privett is a puppeteer, puppet designer, and builder who is best known for performing on the Baby Einstein videos. She worked alongside her husband Dave Privett on the videos and also at their puppet company PlaySoup, which made the puppets. June and her husband replaced Markie Scholz since more puppets were probably needed during the later video series. Privett appears to have done wonderful as an entertainer for babies since she's done numerous videos until the series ended. Afterwards, she and her husband have been introducing many innovations at PlaySoup such as the Toobie puppets. The two also sell their puppets to people, sort of like Steve Axtell at Axtell Expressions, he also sells puppets for people to use in their acts. Though I wish June Privett would've met a Muppet performer from Sesame Street for they did their own project for babies, Sesame Beginnings. Since 2018, she and her husband sold their company to another couple, Kristofer and Amanda Sommerfeld, two ...

Paulo Henrique is a Brazilian puppeteer, actor, writer, and director who performed Cookie Monster (or Come-Come) and others on the Brazilian co-production Sesamo and related appearances since 2016. In addition to Sesamo, he also dubbed Cookie Monster on most projects as well, such as Hotel Furchester (The Furchester Hotel) for example. Apart from performing Come-Come, Paulo also puppeteered Bel on Pequenas Aventureiras as her performer Thais Carvalho was already playing Abby Cadabby. Other puppeteers Henrique worked with include Kelly Guidotti, Marilice Cosenza, and Magda Crudelli, to name a few. I wonder what other characters he performed on that show besides Come-Come since his page mentions "others" under the credits. Outside of Sesamo, some of his other puppet credits include the Brazilian TV series Que Monstro te Mordeu? and Os Cupins. Other than television, Paulo Henrique also worked in the theater as seen in shows like Show das Mascaras and Ze Ninguem, he also wrote an...

Mike Osborn is a fabricator, designer, and puppet builder who worked in Jim Henson's Creature Shop from 1982-1992, a whole decade. His first project was on The Dark Crystal where he fabricated both Jen and Kira while Wendy Froud built the two Gelflings. Other Creature Shop films Mike worked on include Dreamchild (as cable control puppeteer), Labyrinth (on the Ludo unit), The Witches, and the TMNT films (the Creature Shop versions). As for television, Osborn did The Storyteller, 2 Jim Henson Hour specials, and The Ghost of Faffner Hall, where he built puppets with Ron Mueck. Outside of the Creature Shop, he was one of the designers of Jabba the Hutt for the original Star Wars trilogy. His last known project was on the Muppet film The Muppet Christmas Carol, and after that nobody knows his whereabouts. It's a shame the Creature Shop doesn't have any idea on why Mike Osborn would leave after The Muppet Christmas Carol wrapped production. He was doing so well with that company ...

John Cody is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and writer who worked freelance with Jim Henson's Creature Shop since 2017. As for Sesame Street, he worked on seasons 49, 50, and 55 of the show, the window videos at Sesame Street Land in SeaWorld, and the Snuffleupagus walk-around for Sesame Place. John also built puppets for the stage show Jim Henson's Inspired Silliness, both directed and choreographed by John Tartaglia (who also did voices). Cody was also responsible for refurbishing Barkley when the dog returned for online appearances. Outside of Henson, he has served as an ensemble puppeteer for an episode of Helpsters and also works with the company No Strings Productions. In addition to those two, he also puppeteered on numerous projects such as Pineapple Playhouse (as SpongeBob), Treeples, Mr. Crocket, and Paddington Gets in a Jam, to name a few. John Cody also drafts scrips whenever he is not building or performing puppets including one featuring the Muppets, which might not...

Tim Lawrence was a puppeteer, builder, sculptor, and visual effects artist who was known for working on various feature films over the years. He puppeteered on Caddyshack (as Mr. Gopher), Purple People Eater (as Purple), and TMNT III (assisting Splinter), to name a few. For television he built and designed the character costumes and puppets for Dumbo's Circus and puppeteered D.E.C.K.S. on Wake, Rattle & Roll. Other than that, Tim has mostly been involved with films within the science fiction or horror genre such as Howard the Duck, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Harry and the Hendersons, and more, all within the visual effects department. In addition to puppets/creatures, Lawrence was also a sculptor for the first three Shrek films before taking a hiatus from 2007-2018. I only wish he got to work within the Creature Shop because the company provides both puppets and creatures for film and television. I've read online that in 1983, he got to perform one of the zombies for Michae...

Aiysha Nugent Robinson is a British puppeteer, actress, and practitioner who is known for puppeteering on numerous theatrical productions. Some of the shows include Tiny Echos, In the Night Garden Live, Penguin Pig, and more. Aiysha also puppeteered on The Furchester Hotel mostly assisting the main and doing background characters. Robinson did other television shows too such as Becca's Bunch, Strange Hill High, Newzoids, and most recently, Dodge's Pup School. She even has her own YouTube channel where she makes puppets out of arts and crafts. Her most well-known theatre company she performs at is Dragons and Mythical Beasts, a show based on Dinosaur World Live. Aiysha Nugent Robinson is still considered an international Sesame Street performer since she did work on The Furchester Hotel, stated on her bio. She also got to work with other Muppet performers on Dodge's Pup School such as Louise Gold, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Dave Chapman, Beccy Henderson, and Katherine Smee. She ...

Sarah Lafferty is a puppeteer, puppet builder and costumer who built puppets for numerous Muppet and Henson Company projects. She worked on Sesame Street (credited on and off) and its specials, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (2nd season), The Happytime Murders, and The Muppets Mayhem. Other than building puppets, Sarah has also acted, sung, danced, and puppeteered in many theatrical productions. It is such a shame Lafferty never did those skills on any Muppet nor Henson show. Some of her theatrical shows include puppeteering "Fearzilla" for a rally hosted by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, as well as the short film The Never Bell, alongside Ben Durocher and Spencer Lott. She has also served as the co-captain of an award-winning dance troupe known as The Sexcamaids seen at parades. Sarah Lafferty is very creative for television but more active in the theatre based on the theatrical productions she did like Senseless! A Brick Foley Adventure. Working with Muppets and Henson Co...