The same year, Henson gave a tour of the Workshop in " Secrets of the Muppets," which was filmed for The Jim Henson Hour.
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The building also housed a small production facility where they would tape various short-form pieces (such as PSAs and award show appearances) and even full series (including The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss and the puppet portions of Dog City). įrom 1997 to 2004, Ed Christie served as the Muppet Workshop supervisor. In early 2002, the Workshop moved from the three-level space on East 67th Street back to the basement of the Townhouse on East 69th Street.
This was the final location as "the Muppet Workshop" until Henson sold the Muppets to The Walt Disney Company. Since Disney's purchase of the Muppets in 2004, Jim Henson's New York Workshop, as it is now known, has become a division of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Still located in New York City, the workshop has moved to Long Island City, Queens, near the Kaufman Astoria Studios, where it is headed by Connie Peterson as Workshop Manager, and Jason Weber as Creative Supervisor. Though the workshop is no longer responsible for the creation of Muppet characters, they continue to build the puppets required for Jim Henson Company productions as well as Sesame Street. The new, sans-"Muppet" name has also been alternatively credited as Jim Henson's Puppet Workshop and Jim Henson's New York Puppet Workshop.ĭuring production on The Muppet Show, a workshop was set up near London. It was located in an L-shaped room adjacent to Studio D at ATV's Elstree Studios in Borehamwood. This shop was principally staffed by Muppet designers and builders from New York, and early on, almost everything needed for the show was built and maintained at this location.
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