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Stacey Weingarten is a puppeteer, puppet wrangler, director, writer, and producer who got her puppet start studying with John Tartaglia and later went on to work on the show Johnny and the Sprites. Since then, she’s worked with The Muppets and Sesame Street, where she won an Emmy Award for her work on the show’s 50th season.  She also has her own theatrical puppetry projects — Rescue Rue and Runaway Rue — that have played Off-Broadwayand at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.  I talk to Stacey Weingarten about all these projects and more, including her work on the upcoming The Muppet Show special for Disney+, on this episode of Under The Puppet.

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Website – https://www.saweingarten.com
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sayetc/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/stacey.weingarten.9
IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3899160/

Discussed on the show:
John Tartaglia – https://saturdaymorningmedia.com/2019/02/utp-25/
Johnny and the Sprites – https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Johnny_and_the_Sprites
Sesame Street – https://www.sesameworkshop.org
The Muppets – https://muppets.disney.com
Rescue Rue & Runaway Rue – https://www.rescuerue.com
Fordham University Theatre Program – https://www.fordham.edu/theatre
CTY (Center for Talented Youth) – https://cty.jhu.edu
The O’Neill Puppetry Conference – https://www.theoneill.org/pup
Tim Lagasse – https://www.timlagasse.com
Jim Henson Company – https://www.henson.com
Puppet Kitchen NYC – https://www.puppetkitchen.com
John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tartaglia%27s_ImaginOcean

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Art by Parker Jacobs
Music by Dan Ring
Edited by Stephen Staver

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