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is a professional filmmaker, puppet master, and designer/ fabricator.He works on television's many children's programs, including Sesame Street, Between the Lions, Oobi, and Chappell's Show (okay, the last one's not a kid show)
While earning his BFA in Puppet Arts from UConn, he wrote and directed A Show of Hands -which received the coveted Union International de la Marionette Citation for Excellence in the Art of Puppetry - and designed and built the “Bababooie Puppet” for the Howard Stern Show. (Talk about playing both sides of the fence). Upon graduating, he was the first student to receive the Jim Henson Memorial Prize in Puppetry.
Tim also creates puppets, consults, and directs puppet films for strange people like PBS, MTV, HBO and Nickelodeon in his cool secret underground “puppet cave” somewhere in Manhattan. Five short films called “A Show of Hands” (obviously based on earlier work) received a Broadcast Design Silver Award, and a series of short puppet films he created for Between the Lions earned him two Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Editing and one for Costume Design/Styling (it's an honor to be nominated). Recently he created and performed puppets for the 2004 Sundance Film Festival's official trailers and their continuing online campaign “Keep It Free”, designed and fabricated eight puppets for a brand new segment on the very popular Blue's Clue's, which premiered in February of 2004, and he's also a featured performer and director on the new PBS series It's a Big Big World!
In his spare time he performs with puppets for more mature late night puppet comedy shows and Puppet Slams all over New York and New England, and tours the world performing in television and live puppet shows.
He also lectures for the Lincoln Center Foundation, teaches modern television puppet techniques at the Puppet Arts Program at UConn , the O'Neill Theatre Center Puppetry Conference, and the CSU Summer Arts Program with paul Zalloom adn Clare Dolan, finds time to practice sleight of hand, and eats occasionally. But enough about him, tell us about you…
