The Puppet School

Michael Earl, long time Jim Henson Muppeteer and mutiple time Emmy winner, co-founded The Puppet School with Roberto Ferreira which has four locations in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and San Francisco.  At The Puppet School students can learn how to act, improvise, do character voices and create entertaining puppet characters that live and breathe.  Learn more about The Puppet School at www.puppetschool.com.

A recent article by Barbara Sternig highlighted The Puppet School.

"Anyone who ever watched Sesame Street or The Muppet Show will feel an instant twinge of recognition when they step into a small, crowded workshop/theater on Ventura Boulevard and spy a strangely familiar-looking lineup of puppet faces and forms.

That's because Michael Earl, co-founder and guru of the Puppet School, spent most of his early life as one of Jim Henson's master Muppeteers. And he's still at it.

The Emmy winner now teaches puppetry to beginners and advanced professionals alike, even revealing how to make your own Muppet-style puppets.

"I still do work for Muppets and Henson Productions," Earl said, "but Puppet School is my main drive. After 30 years of working with my heroes, I'm more than content to teach now, and to send my people out.... We don't know anyone in the world who's doing what we're doing."  Read more at "Puppet School Is One of a Kind."

Earl replaced the orginial Mr. Snuffle-upagus, Jerry Nelson, on Sesame Street when he was just 19.  In addition to Sesame Street other Muppet related projects Earl worked on include "The Muppet Movie," "The Muppets Take Manhattan," "John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together ," "The Jim Henson Hour," "The 30th Anniversary Muppet Special," "Sesame Street's 20th Anniversary Special" and others.

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Jimmy in GA
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