Puppetry

I'm proud to have worked as a puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company. I participated in several Sesame Street-related shoots in New York, including the "Sony/Loews Movie Theatre Policy Song" pictured above. More recently, I worked on the Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic film and video attraction shown at Universal Studios Japan and Sea World San Diego.

I've also made numerous live puppeteering appearances for Henson portraying two famous bear characters (see below). I've appeared all over the U.S., and I've performed in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Brazil. In 2004 the Coca-Cola Polar Bear won "Best Character Performance" in the Guatemala City Christmas parade. It was a cutthroat competition in which "Osito" triumphed over archrivals Shrek, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Barney the Dinosaur.

My non-Henson work includes the video "Pinatta's View" with Avenue Q puppetmeister Rick Lyon, and the "Puzzle Place" home video series. For Brian Hull's Shakespeare puppet plays at Nashville Public Library, I recorded the voices of Horatio in "Hamlet" and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Also in Nashville, I performed the parrot puppet Bongo in the DVD series "Live B.I.G.: Backyard Time" for Earnhardt Pirkle, Inc. And in a quasi-puppeteering role, I played the mysterious Armand in season one of "Live B.I.G.: The Station."

To the left you'll find a puppetry piece I created in which I perform and voice eight different characters. I also made their distinctive facial features (shamelessly appropriating the classic Muppet look), but underneath they're all actually the same hand-rod puppet. Clicking on the smaller image will download the entire piece; clicking on the larger image will give you just the ending with a larger frame size.