Episode #87 - Barry Gordemer - Puppet Podcast

01/31/21 • 38 min

🎙Puppet Podcast #87 - Barry Gordemer, Award-winning Puppeteer + Puppet Builder, Writer and Producer 👉American award-winning puppeteer, writer and producer who's been designing, building & performing puppets since 1983. In 2003, He received a Telly award for his puppet designs and performance as Alphie the Alligator on the video series, "The Sound and the Furry." In 2000, Barry performed on the CD "Dreamosauraus." It received a Grammy nomination for "Best Musical Album for Kids.” In his spare time, Barry is a veteran writer, producer and editor for NPR's award-winning news magazine, "Morning Edition."

Follow him on social media : ✅FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/barry.gordemer ✅INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bgordemer/✅YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjL22OukoMdK6OgFK3xbkIA ✅LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrygordemer/✅TWITTER: https://twitter.com/bgordemer

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Episode #86 - Tim Gosley - Puppet Podcast

👉Puppeteer from British Colombia, he worked on numerous Muppet productions and on the Canadian version of Sesame Street, where he performed a role regularly for nine seasons. He is also a Gemini Award winner for best preschool puppet performance.

Tim Gosley’s four decades in puppetry have included a wide spectrum of projects. He was the festival director for Puppets for Peace in Victoria, B.C. He is a Gemini Award winning puppeteer on TV series including The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, and was Basil Bear for nine years on Canadian Sesame Street. He creates his own shows for both families and adults in different techniques including LED shadows; low-tech live video projections; object manipulation; and Muppet-style manipulation. The content ranges from children’s shows like “The Ugly Duckling”, which toured German, the UK, Austria, Taiwan and across Canada, to the avant-garde including Michael McClure’s 60’s hallucination “The Meatball.” Since moving to Victoria in 2008, he started building giant puppets. As a maker and designer, he has created giant puppets for The City of Victoria, Theatre Terrific, and Puppets for Peace. His latest suitcase performance is with Runaway Moon Theatre’s project, “How did you get here?” Under development is “Le Bloke de North Hatley” based on his years living in Quebec.

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Episode #88 - Dave Chapman - Puppet Podcast

🎙 Puppeteer and actor from England for Netflix's Dark Crystal 👉 Dave has a wealth of experience from writing and performing film and tv puppet characters for 25 years. Most recently, he was one of the principal puppeteers on the Star Wars franchise movies and Netflix’s new The Dark Crystal - Age of Resistance series.

Dave Chapman is a British actor and puppeteer who was an additional performer on Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets Most Wanted and 101 Dalmatians. In 2011, he was an assistant puppeteer for Animal during an appearance on The X Factor.

More recently, Chapman played Dougie Colon, Eddie Watts, and others in the Jim Henson Company and BBC co-production That Puppet Game Show. Chapman joined Brian Henson on stage for Brian Henson's "Evolution of Puppetry" lectures at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival and has guested in the Henson Alternative improv show "Puppet Up!"

Chapman graduated from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 1992 and was trained at the Jim Henson Company's puppeteering workshop in 1994. His tutors were Kevin Clash, Nigel Plaskitt, and Rob Tygner. Afterwards, Chapman performed various puppet characters for British TV; such as BBC presenters Otis the Aardvark and Vinnie the Ferret. He has also performed Tiny of Tiny and Mr Duk, Scratch on Nuzzle and Scratch, Windy on Space Pirates and as double for Victor Yerrid on Jim Henson Company's "Pajanimals". Chapman also worked with Brian Herring as the on-set puppeteers for the droid BB-8 in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Chapman's acting credits includes the BAFTA Award winning shows The Slammer and Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (in the latter, he played over 200 characters). He also provided Dalek voices in the 1999 special Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.

Follow him on social media : ✅IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2237150/ ✅MUPPETWIKI: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Dave_Chapman

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