Ingrid Crepeau

Ingrid Crepeau is a puppeteer and costumer who is known for her work with DinoRock Productions and also performed Jessica D'Antelope on the show Animal Planet News. In addition, she also built National Park Star Wars Day costumes and maintained the regular ones for six whole years. Ingrid mostly did her work with DinoRock paired alongside Michele Valeri doing shows such as Dinosaur Babies. Crepeau had used hand puppets, marionettes, and everything in between within that show. She even hosted her own YouTube puppet making web series known as Crafty Thoughts. It's a shame DinoRock Productions is no longer doing shows anymore as Dinosaur Babies was their very last one, according to a news article seen online. In addition to puppetry and costuming, Ingrid Crepeau also wrote a book called A Show of Hands, it's all about people using puppets with young kids. Pity she never worked with any Muppet performers why she probably never even heard of them. At least she's got a lot of knowledge of entertaining children with puppets, something every puppeteer has done in their career, whether intended or not. And it's not every lucky person like Ingrid to make Star Wars themed costumes for a national park. Despite not doing DinoRock Productions anymore, Crepeau is still active with puppets as seen in her web series and at other different venues. And she has experience performing different types of puppets as seen in Dinosaur Babies and Animal Planet News, not to mention other appearances. It's never too late for her to meet someone who has worked on Sesame Street, The Muppets, or other Henson Company projects. Ingrid Crepeau, it's great that you've done puppetry for children and made costumes for special events. I only wish you were still performing for theatre and television and not just the internet. But if you still are performing for stage and screen, then good for you. Those are stomping good performances Ingrid. Peace out Crepeau!

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