Left-handed Muppeteers

[antsamthompson9]

There has been a lot of right-handed Muppeteers, but there has been some others who are left-handed. Like Louise Gold and Jennifer Barnhart. Were there any others?

 

[D'Snowth]

Jerry Nelson's worked left-handed before, either for his half of Two-Headed Monster, or due to the shoulder injury he sustained in the 70s that forced him to perform left-handed for a while.

Also, in the early days of SST, the way Oscar's set was laid out forced Caroll Spinney to work Oscar left-handed to ensure he wouldn't be seen on-camera.

 

[antsamthompson9]

Jerry Nelson's worked left-handed before, either for his half of Two-Headed Monster, or due to the shoulder injury he sustained in the 70s that forced him to perform left-handed for a while.

Also, in the early days of SST, the way Oscar's set was laid out forced Caroll Spinney to work Oscar left-handed to ensure he wouldn't be seen on-camera.

I was aware of both of those. I was talking about Muppeteers who always worked left-handed.

 

[Skekayuk]

Richard Coombe, and Terry Angus are two who write right-handed but puppeteer left-handed. They both started out as puppet-builders and then progressed to puppeteering, and so were used to having their puppet on their left-hand (because they would use their right to make it).
Mike Quinn is another example of a puppeteer who puppeteers left-handed because he is a lefty.

 

[dwmckim]

That's interesting about Richard and Terry. I always thought i must be the only person out there who's right handed in just about everything else but always felt natural puppeteering left-handed! Nice to know i'm not the only one.

 

[Gelfling Girl]

I always thought i must be the only person out there who's right handed in just about everything else but always felt natural puppeteering left-handed! Nice to know i'm not the only one.

I'm kinda like that, but it really depends on the puppet.

When I was learning a bit about puppetry before actually doing it, one source said that your recessive (Would that be the right word in this case?) hand would often be better for puppeteering. I mostly did it that way (left-handed) since then, but with some puppets I have trouble getting as much life out of my left hand than my right.

 

[antsamthompson9]

After seeing two episodes of Late Night Liars, it seems to me that Brian Clark is left-handed because, Mummy always puts his right hand on the panel desk.