Sarah Nolen

Sarah Nolen is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and filmmaker who is known for performing many styles of puppetry for both stage and screen. She didn't work on Muppets or Sesame Street, but she has trained in one of Sesame Street's puppeteer workshops under the supervision of Muppet performers. Sarah's recent well-known show is called Treeples and it involves children and creatures. Nolen has also performed so many shows on stage such as Goblin Market, Peter & The Wolf, National Puppet Slam, and even shows at the Boston Pops. She even has her own company called Puppet Motion, where she serves consulting, puppet building, and media work for many types of productions such as many theatres and even college departments. In addition to puppetry, she also writes, directs, edits, and designs/builds puppets for many short films including ABC Detectives, Jump In, Ancestral, and Lullaby of Broadway. Sarah Nolen could be perfect to help out on Sesame Street, after all she did train in one of their puppeteer workshops in the past, but she is probably more interested working at her company. At least she got to meet a few Muppet performers such as Martin P. Robinson, Matt Vogel, and Mark Gale, the latter made the puppets for one of the shows she did. She may not be a Muppet performer, but training with Sesame Street performers is what made her the puppeteer and filmmaker she is today. Let's hope Sarah does work on Sesame Street in the future, maybe in the workshop building puppets, she's pretty good at it. It also makes Nolen one of those lucky non-Muppet performers to perform with the Boston Pops Orchestra in her career. I don't think any other puppeteer has performed for them, at least not to my knowledge. Maybe Treeples could get picked up as a series by a network in the future. Sarah Nolen, you've done wonderful on both stage and screen with your puppets and short films. Keep on performing and always remember how training with Sesame Street performers helped you become the woman you are. You never know when Treeples, your creation, will be picked up as a series. Until then, keep up the work Sarah. You got this Nolen!