Arlee Chadwick

Arlee Chadwick is a puppeteer, designer, and builder who is best known for her performance on Boop! the Musical with Huber Marionettes (original cast) and Rockefeller projects. In addition to Boop, she also did various other shows such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, The Little Prince, Dinosaur Train Live, and The Golden Girls Show. Apart from theatre, Arlee is the creator of Puppets by Arlee, where she builds custom puppets for theatre, film, and educational programming. Chadwick even got to perform in-suit for Sesame Street Live for 5 years and puppeteered on John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean. For the latter, she got to work with Ryan Dillon, Weston Chandler Long, Carole D'Agostino, and James Wojtal, all who work on Sesame Street. She seems to be well experienced with both puppets and marionettes as she's a resident artist at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre, which does numerous performances. Arlee Chadwick is doing pretty well at performing puppets as well as designing and building them. Some of the puppets she made were used in Paddington Gets in a Jam, Puss in Boots, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show. If only she got to work on Sesame Street proper, then she would've reunited with Ryan Dillon, or maybe join the Henson Company to reunite with other puppeteers she worked with. Arlee still works with puppets today since she does Rockefeller Studios productions. I certainly hope Chadwick meets more puppeteers from the Henson Company in the future. In the meantime, she should continue designing, building, and performing puppets, costumes, and marionettes. You never know what show will come next that she'll get to do with newcomer puppeteers like Vicki Oceguera. Arlee Chadwick, you're wonderful when it comes to puppets and marionettes. I hope you'll continue to work in the theatre as well as in your company. There's nothing you can't do that seems impossible, at least not to my knowledge. Splendid performance Arlee. You rock Chadwick!

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