A puppet designer is a person who designs and creates puppets for themselves or for other ventriloquists and puppeteers. Puppetry predates written history...
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Theater Wing Designer Award for The Lion King Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, (Distinguished Achievement) 2000 Mask & Puppet Design, Co-Designer with Julie...
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Jeff Dunham (redirect from Peanut (puppet))
having developed his style of lampooning those he performed for, using the puppets to say things too risque for him to say without them. Dunham's television...
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Tim Lagasse (born 1968/1969) is an American puppeteer, puppet designer, actor and director. He has worked on films and television programs for Sesame...
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Guðmundur Þór Kárason (born 14 June 1974) is an Icelandic puppet designer and puppeteer who is best known for his work on LazyTown, in which he portrayed...
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Norman Hetherington (section Puppet Designer)
an Australian artist, cartoonist (known as "Heth"), puppeteer, and puppet designer. He is best remembered as the creator of one of Australia's longest...
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1929, Potsdam – 26 September 2006, Berlin) was a German director, Puppet designer, and author of the Sandmännchen character for the Deutscher Fernsehfunk...
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Bob Payne (section Puppet designer works)
Bob Payne is an American retired puppeteer and puppet builder. He is also known as Robert Payne and Bobby Payne. Payne, a native of Washington, D.C., was...
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Julie Taymor (category American costume designers)
1996) – director, co-bookwriter, co-scenic designer, co-costume designer, mask designer, puppet designer – Tony Award co-nomination for Best Scenic Design...
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in order to rejuvenate the team. The first costume was created by a puppet designer named B. Sure. Scrotie's presence attracted people to games and increased...
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Kermit Love (category Puppet designers)
an American puppet maker, puppeteer, costume designer, and actor in children's television and on Broadway. He was best known as a designer and builder...
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Lyon (born February 25, 1958) is an American puppeteer, actor, and puppet designer and builder. He has worked for The Jim Henson Company as one of the...
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William Todd-Jones (born 1958) is a Welsh puppeteer, puppet designer, performer, director, movement consultant and writer for film, television and theatre...
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well. He contacted Julie Taymor, who at the time moonlighted as a puppet designer. Taymor drew up designs involving a screen with multiple mouths that...
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writer King Hall – Head Puppeteer, Set Designer, Puppet Designer Tom Ray – Assistant Head Puppeteer, Puppet Designer Alan Pratt, Ph.D. – Curriculum Consultant...
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Hervé Di Rosa (category Puppet designers)
Hervé Di Rosa (born 1959 in Sète, Hérault) is a French painter. Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter who brings to life unique characters...
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Kihachirō Kawamoto (category Puppet designers)
Kawamoto Kihachirō, January 11, 1925 – August 23, 2010) was a Japanese puppet designer, independent film director, screenwriter, animator and the second president...
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Scott Brooker (category Puppet designers)
is a British puppeteer, puppet maker, puppet designer. Scott Brooker has many television, theatre and film credits as a puppet maker and puppeteer. One...
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Enrico Baj (category Puppet designers)
Enrico Baj (31 October 1924 – 16 June 2003) was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints...
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Avenue Q (section Puppet characters)
Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and a book by Jeff Whitty. It won...
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Maria Gurevich (category Puppet designers)
(Hebrew: מריה גורביץ; born October 8, 1964) is an Israeli puppet designer known for creating puppets in many TV programs for children and adults, as well as...
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Asian-inspired robes. The Animals: Brought to life by larger-than-life puppets, the animals of Kà include a pair of crabs, a starfish, a turtle, a giant...
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Brad Williams (puppeteer) (category Puppet designers)
American puppeteer, designer and teacher. He died from injuries sustained in a car accident at the age of 42. He is named as one of the puppet artists whose...
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop (category Puppet designers)
day, the New York shop specializes in hand puppets, including building The Muppets and most of the puppets in Sesame Street. The Los Angeles branch creates...
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Don Sahlin (category Puppet designers)
Sahlin began making puppets at age 11, initially building a shadow theater and cardboard figurines. As an adult he built several puppets for Kukla, Fran and...
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Nikolai Zykov (category Puppet designers)
(born May 8, 1965) is a Soviet and Russian actor, director, artist, designer, puppet-maker, and master puppeteer. Nikolai Zykov was born in 1965 in Moscow...
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undetectable to facial recognition software. His dream is to be a puppet designer. Tisha Campbell as Gigi Thompson; an African-American public relations...
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Bonnie Erickson (category Puppet designers)
Bonnie Erickson (born September 20, 1941) is an American designer of puppets, costumes, toys, and graphics, best known for her work with Jim Henson and...
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American musician Brad Williams (puppeteer) (1951–1993), American puppet designer for TV programs and literacy education Brad Williams (comedian) (born...
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Robin Frohardt (category Puppet designers)
Robin Frohardt is an American playwright, puppet designer, visual artist, and director based in Brooklyn, NY. Frohardt constructs her sets for films and...
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