Jessica Simon

Jessica Simon is a puppeteer, puppet designer/builder, and director who is known for doing freelance work throughout her career including various puppet workshops. She performed at the Puppeteers of America Festival and also received a couple awards from the Jim Henson Foundation. Jessica has been a puppet fabricator for multiple companies like Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Rick Lyon Puppets, Puppet Kitchen, and more. Simon was also credited as part of Creature Shop team on Sesame Street for its 48th season and probably doing more since, just uncredited maybe. Outside, she performed at many venues like La MaMa, Dixon Place, Puppet Kitchen, Streb Lab, and St. Ann's Warehouse, and more. Some of the other puppet builders she worked with include Michael Schupbach, Emily DeCola, Ben Durocher, and Michelle Hickey, to name a few. Apart from puppetry, Jessica Simon was a co-producer of a series of short puppet films by Handmade Puppet Dreams. She has also directed a portion of Alva Rogers' The Doll Plays at MoMA and a workshop production of Harlem Doll Palace. I wonder if she still works on Sesame Street today for her page on the Muppet Wiki says she started in its 48th season. That usually means that Jessica is still working on the show, just uncredited. You never know when Simon will get credited for Sesame Street again, not to mention other projects the Creature Shop makes puppets for. If only her awards can help her gain more experience with working on Sesame Street. She is considered to be a puppeteer as well as a puppet builder since she did it for several years. Jessica Simon, you've done wonderful shows throughout your career, and you still are today. Keep on building, performing, and directing puppets so that everyone will know what a master puppeteer, director, and dramaturg you are to this day. And if you're still working with the Creature Shop today, always think about the adventures you've had on their productions. Excellent freelance work Jessica. You totally got this Simon!

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