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Aanika’s Elephants is a stage show featuring puppetry that is about a young Kenyan girl who meets a baby elephant at the orphanage where her father works.  The show was written by Emmy Award winning Sesame Street writer Annie Evans and directed by Sesame Street and Muppets puppeteer Pam Arciero. Annie and Pam also produce the show along with Jean Marie Keevins who puppeteers in the production as well.  I sat down with Annie, Pam and Jean Marie for a discussion about the show and its development.  During our discussion we were also briefly joined by Sesame Street Puppeteer Martin P. Robinson who built the puppets for Aanika’s Elephants making this an all hands on deck episode of Under The Puppet.

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Russ Walko has puppeteered on projects such as Five Nights at Freddy’s, Waffles + Mochi and Mystery Science Theater 3000.  He’s also an Emmy Nominated puppet wrangler and builder who has worked with The Muppets and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.  His own puppet shop Puppet Garage has built puppets for commercials and films and TV shows such as The Barbarian and the Troll.  I talk to Russ Walko about all this and more on this supersized 100th episode of Under The Puppet.

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Connect with : Website - https://russwalko.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/puppetgarage Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/puppetGARAGE IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2260986

Discussed on the show: Puppet Garage - http://puppetgarage.com Erax - https://www.netflix.com/title/81349232

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Cat Rock is a puppeteer, filmmaker and puppet builder who lives in Bristol in South West England.  Disciplined in many styles of puppetry from hand and rod, to shadow, to table top to giant puppets, Cat is always looking to push the notion of what can be done with puppets.  She’s a trustee at puppet place, a workspace for all things puppetry in Bristol and she spearheads the Bristol 48 Hour Film Challenge.  Additionally, she’s puppeteered for Coldplay in front of 70,000 people, created a puppet show for a bio-dome and brought the classic animated character Count Duckula to life as a puppet.  I talk to Cat about all these projects and more on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Connect with Cat Rock: Website - https://catrock.portfoliobox.net Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/catrockpuppetry/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@catherinerock260

Discussed on the show: House of Funny Noises YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@houseoffunnynoises7458 Puppet Place - https://puppetplace.org Bristol 48 Hour Puppet Film Challenge - https://bristol48hpuppetfilmchallenge.co.uk

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Luman Coad is a puppeteer who spent several years as the director of The Storybook Theater at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California.  He used the skills learned there to found his own puppet company Coad Canada Puppets, that produced over 30 different puppet shows and traveled around the world performing them.  He’s worked in TV and Film and is the founder of Charlemagne Press, a publisher that specializes in books about puppetry.  I talk to Luman Coad about all this and more on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Connect with : Books - https://www.amazon.com/Books-Luman-Coad/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ALuman+Coad IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167540/ World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts - https://wepa.unima.org/en/coad-canada-puppets/

Discussed on the show: Happy Hollow Park - https://happyhollow.org The Storybook Theater at Children's Fairyland - https://fairyland.org/events-and-performances/puppet-shows/ Charlemagee Press - https://www.charlemagnepress.com

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Bob Mills is one of, if not the original Disneyland puppeteers, performing marionette shows at the park starting in 1957.  Before that he puppeteered at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, CA and before that he was the resident puppeteer and clown for the TV show Just Kids which broadcast every weekday in Hawaii.  Bob would later step away from puppetry to do make-up for some of the biggest stars in film and television.  I talk to Bob Mills about all of this and more on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Discussed on the show:

Bob Baker Marionette Theater - http://bobbakermarionettetheater.com

The Secrets of Making Marionettes by Rufus Rose - Part I - https://books.google.com/books?id=u94DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA119&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q&f=false

Part II - https://books.google.com/books?id=xt8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA283&pg=PA283#v=onepage&q&f=false

Children's Fairyland - https://fairyland.org

Disneyland - https://disneyland.disney.go.com

Photos courtesy of Bob Mills & Randal Metz

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On July 21, 2023 as part of the National Puppetry Festival at the University of Maryland, festival attendees were invited to take a bus tour of historical Jim Henson sites in Washington DC and the surrounding areas.  The tour was hosted by Heather Henson and author Craig Shemin.  Cheryl Henson was also along for the tour. I recorded the audio of that bus trip in binaural audio and I present it to you now on this episode of Under The Puppet.

Visit Underthepuppet.com to see a collection of pictures I took on the tour.

Discussed on the show: Puppeteers of America - https://www.puppeteers.org Heather Henson - https://www.ibexpuppetry.com Craig Shemin - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2022/09/utp-76/ Tough Pig Article - https://toughpigs.com/muppety-tour-jim-henson-bus-ride/

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Danny Montooth spent several years as a puppeteer and Puppet Specialist at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.  He is also a creator of and puppeteer for Perception Studios which streams weekly live on Twitch.  I talk to Danny about working for Disney, his thoughts on streaming, and his jobs working on commercials, movies, web series and more in this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Discussed on the show: Greg Ballora - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2021/12/utp-66/ Thom Fountain - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2017/07/utp-005/ Aran de la Peña - https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2020/04/utp-42/

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Melvin Campbell is a puppeteer on the PBS Show Donkey Hode. Not only is he playing the show’s newest character Cousin Hode, he’s also composed music for the show and written a couple of episodes of the show as well.  He’s also written for Sesame Street and The Not Too Late Show Starring Elmo.  I talk to the incredibly talented Mel Campbell about his puppetry career on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Connect with : Website - https://camphousepuppets.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/untitledcampbell/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CampHousePuppets YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@puppestry IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13167503/

Discussed on the show:

Donkey Hode - https://pbskids.org/donkeyhodie/

PBS Interview - https://video.wtvp.org/video/unsung-guitarist-far-flung-music-shop-pbs-puppeteer-vljoly/

Duo Lingo - https://www.youtube.com/@DuoABC/featured

Photo Credits: Loren Toney/Courtesy of Fred Rogers Productions Kelsey Neumann/Courtesy of Mel Campbell/Fred Rogers Productions Dionte Bolling/Courtesy of Mel Campbell/Fred Rogers Productions

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Alex Evans is the Co-Executive Director and Head Puppeteer of The Historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles.  Since the 1960’s The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been entertaining audiences throughout Southern California. I talk to Alex Evans about his puppetry career, his role at the theater and a bit about the history of Bob Baker and the theater on this episode, the first episode of the eighth year of Under The Puppet.

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Connect with Alex Evans & the Bob Baker Marionette Theater: Website - https://www.bobbakermarionettetheater.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuE9sYSJJYVubfaKvjpwwdA Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bobbakermarionettes/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bobbakermarionettes Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BobBakerMarionetteTheater/ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Baker_Marionette_Theater Twitter - https://twitter.com/bbmtofficial

Discussed on the show: Bob Baker Day - https://bobbakerday.com Adopt-A-Puppet - https://www.bobbakermarionettetheater.com/adoptapuppet Name A Chair & Spoon - https://www.bobbakermarionettetheater.com/puppet-parlor-fundraiser

Photos by Carlo Alberto Orecchia & Lisa Whiteman. 

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Puppeteers Donna Kimball and Colleen Smith are the creators, directors, and producers of  GLOP - The Glorious Ladies of Puppetry.  Donna and Colleen, along with puppeteer Alice Dinnean, created GLOP to promote the many incredible Lady Puppeteers, Puppeteers of Color and Non-Binary and Trans puppeteers there are around the world.  I sat down with Donna and Colleen to talk about the history of GLOP, the two seasons of the show they’ve produced, the live show spin off and much more on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Alison Mork played Chairry on the legendary TV Show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse where she also performed Magic Screen, Chicky Baby, Chandelier and more.  She has also puppeteered on Sesame Street, The  Muppets, Crank Yankers and Team America World Police.  I sit down with Alison Mork to talk about all this and more on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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