So I kind of mentioned a little bit in the intro, but how did you get involved with puppetry as a profession or just puppetry in general?

Yeah, so it's a good question.

I was in seventh grade.

My mom, this kind of starts at the very beginning here.

My mom had tossed out an Elmo plush that I had as a kid, and I was looking for it because I had just watched The 1985 Sesame Street film, Follow That Bird, and it literally follows Big Bird around the whole country.

And we get to see him out in the wild and we get to see him full body and this amazing bridging of... you know, characters to our world.

This really captivated me.

Yes, or Claire's, but Limited 2