Carl Chadd

Carl Chadd is a British puppeteer and puppet maker who served as one of the additional puppeteers on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Otherwise, he's best known for collaborating with Phil Fletcher, assisting with the latter's puppet company, The Gluvets. Carl performed in the company's many shows as well as numerous guest appearances at puppet festivals, according to his archived site. Chadd later founded his own puppet company known as Stuffet's Puppets where he makes and sells his puppets for people to use. Apart from Fletcher, he got to perform with several Henson performers while working on Age of Resistance including Dave Chapman, Helena Smee, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Katherine Smee, and numerous others. According to a link from The Free Library website, he once performed a Gluvets tribute to Jim Henson, which featured Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy that ultimately got cut out thanks to a threat from Disney in 2011. Let's hope that Carl Chadd wasn't too disappointed that both legendary Muppets were cut out from the tribute, after all, they were Disney property. At least he made up for it by doing the prequel series to ever popular The Dark Crystal several years later (8 to be exact). Does his company Stuffet's Puppets ever do film and/or television projects? If so, Carl should reveal them to the world, so he'll get acknowledged for his work, besides his partnership with Fletcher. Maybe someday Chadd will get interviewed and reveal what other projects he and Fletcher did as well as his solo career away from his partner. Still, he probably felt thrilled to get to assist on a Henson Company project back in 2019, which sadly got cancelled after one season. If Age of Resistance didn't get cancelled, then he could've done more with the Henson performers and reveal what happened next. Cark Chadd, you're a true friend to Phil Fletcher and you've done great on that short-lived Creature Shop series. Continue to make and perform puppets for people's entertainment. Not to mention, always keep in touch with your partner whom you've worked with for years. Fantastical performance Carl. You're a pro Chadd!

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