Tim Lagasse
Timothy "Tim" Lagasse (born February 20, 1969) is an American actor who uses puppets. He is known for playing Oobi on Oobi and Crash on Crash & Bernstein. He works on The Muppets and Sesame Street.
Biography
Tim Lagasse was born in Milford, Connecticut. He went to St. Mary's School and Notre Dame High School in West Haven, Connecticut.[1] He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1992[2] with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Puppetry.[3]
Lagasse teaches people how to use and make puppets at the Lincoln Center Foundation. He also teaches about modern ways of puppetry at the University of Connecticut's Puppet Arts Program.[4] In 2011, he worked at the University of Central Arkansas as part of Heather Henson's "Handmade Puppet Dreams" Film Festival.[5][6] In 2012, he went to Haiti as a puppet workshop trainer.[7]
Other websites
- Tim Lagasse on IMDb
- Tim Lagasse at the Muppet Wiki
- Official site
References
- ↑ Amarante, Joe (5 October 2012). Milford guy's great puppet caper continues with 'Crash' on Disney XD. New Haven Register. http://www.nhregister.com/article/NH/20121005/NEWS/310059971.
- ↑ Eaton-Robb, Pat (3 November 2013). UConn expands puppet arts program. Portland Press Herald. http://www.pressherald.com/2013/11/03/uconn_expands_puppet_arts_program_/.
- ↑ "15th O'Neill National Puppetry Conference" (PDF). Eugene O'Neill Theatre. 15 June 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
- ↑ Lagasse, Timothy. "About Tim Lagasse". TimLagasse.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ↑ Heather Henson to Bring Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Festival to UCA. University of Central Arkansas. 19 August 2011. https://uca.edu/news/handmade-puppet-dreams-film-festival-to-uca/.
- ↑ Puppets to Invade Your Dreams. The Fountain. 12 September 2011. http://www.myfountainonline.com/puppets. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
- ↑ "Associate Artists - No Strings Productions". NoStringsProductions.org. No Strings Productions.