All About Muppets

Martin Reinl is a German puppeteer, comedian, and writer who is perhaps best known for performing Elmo, Grover, and Wolf on the German co-production of Sesame Street, Sesamstrasse. He first joined the show in 2008 as an additional performer before gaining his characters later. Martin also dubs Elmo in all US scenes and projects since 2012. Reinl should be proud to perform an international version of such an iconic character, whether on the show, it's spinoff, etc. Outside of Sesamstrasse, he has his own production company known as bigSmile-Entertainment, producing various television puppetry shows and what-not. Some of the shows he performed on include Jan & Henry, Woozle Goozle, and Wiwaldi Show, just to name a few. In addition to performing, Martin Reinl also co-hosts the German language puppet podcast Puppkultur where they discuss Muppets, Dinosaurs, and many other puppet productions and characters, Henson-related or not. He also does voice acting like dubbing the title char...

Alex "Jurgen" Ferguson is a puppet and costume builder, set dresser, and puppeteer known for working on many Muppet projects, mostly recent ones. He also worked on Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, and a few Creature Shop-effects films, like Where the Wild Things Are for example. Alex's work with the Muppets began with Muppets from Space before moving on to more recent projects such as Muppets Now and The Muppets Mayhem. Ferguson also served as a supporting Muppet performer on The Muppet Show (2026 special) in addition to being in the workshop. I'll bet he was very excited to be an additional performer on the 50th anniversary of such an iconic original series. Outside, he built the character costumes on Yo Gabba Gabba! and the puppets on Imagination Movers, Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks, and The Barbarian and the Troll. In addition to puppets, Alex "Jurgen" Ferguson was also a set dresser and/or swing crew on many films like The Night Flier, B...