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[[Image:Amy_with_friends.jpg|thumb|300px|Amy van Gilder at the workshop in Elstree with Gonzo and Uncle Deadly]]
 
[[Image:Amy_with_friends.jpg|thumb|300px|Amy van Gilder at the workshop in Elstree with Gonzo and Uncle Deadly]]
 
[[Image:Amy_floyd.jpg|thumb|300px|Amy van Gilder with Floyd]]
 
[[Image:Amy_floyd.jpg|thumb|300px|Amy van Gilder with Floyd]]
'''Amy van Gilder''' was one of the earliest designers in the NY [[The Muppet Workshop|Muppet Workshop]], hired during the first season of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. She left Henson for a time in the early 1980s to start a family, but returned to work on ''[[Muppets Tonight]]''. She also had [[Miscellaneous Cameos|a cameo]] alongside [[Jim Henson]] in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'', as a patron of [[The Dubonnet Club]].
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'''Amy Van Gilder''' was one of the earliest designers in the NY [[The Muppet Workshop|Muppet Workshop]], hired during the first season of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. She left Henson for a time in the early 1980s to start a family, but returned to work on ''[[Muppets Tonight]]''. She also had [[Miscellaneous Cameos|a cameo]] alongside [[Jim Henson]] in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'', as a patron of [[The Dubonnet Club]].
   
 
She was later hired by [[The Walt Disney Company]] in the Imagineering Department, where she currently helps with integrating the newly acquired Muppets property into their theme parks. Her achievements there include design and theming concepts for Lucky the Dinosaur, the first in a series of free-roving Audio-Animatronics in Disney's Living Character Initiative, which would later include the [[Muppet Mobile Labs]].
 
She was later hired by [[The Walt Disney Company]] in the Imagineering Department, where she currently helps with integrating the newly acquired Muppets property into their theme parks. Her achievements there include design and theming concepts for Lucky the Dinosaur, the first in a series of free-roving Audio-Animatronics in Disney's Living Character Initiative, which would later include the [[Muppet Mobile Labs]].
   
Amy van Gilder's children are journalist [http://soniavangildercooke.com/ Sonia van Gilder Cooke] and photograph [http://www.bartcooke.com/ Bartholomew Cooke] . Sonia van Gilder Cooke mentioned her mother as her "role model" in an [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/living/article1362403.ece interview with The Sunday Times] of London.
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Amy Van Gilder's children are journalist [http://soniavangildercooke.com/ Sonia van Gilder Cooke] and photographer [http://www.bartcooke.com/ Bartholomew Cooke] . Sonia van Gilder Cooke mentioned her mother as her "role model" in an [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/living/article1362403.ece interview with The Sunday Times] of London.
   
 
==Design credits==
 
==Design credits==

Revision as of 23:30, 10 February 2014

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Amy Van Gilder with Jim Henson in The Great Muppet Caper.

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Amy van Gilder at the workshop in Elstree.

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Amy with Wembley

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Amy van Gilder at the workshop in Elstree with Gonzo and Uncle Deadly

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Amy van Gilder with Floyd

Amy Van Gilder was one of the earliest designers in the NY Muppet Workshop, hired during the first season of The Muppet Show. She left Henson for a time in the early 1980s to start a family, but returned to work on Muppets Tonight. She also had a cameo alongside Jim Henson in The Great Muppet Caper, as a patron of The Dubonnet Club.

She was later hired by The Walt Disney Company in the Imagineering Department, where she currently helps with integrating the newly acquired Muppets property into their theme parks. Her achievements there include design and theming concepts for Lucky the Dinosaur, the first in a series of free-roving Audio-Animatronics in Disney's Living Character Initiative, which would later include the Muppet Mobile Labs.

Amy Van Gilder's children are journalist Sonia van Gilder Cooke and photographer Bartholomew Cooke . Sonia van Gilder Cooke mentioned her mother as her "role model" in an interview with The Sunday Times of London.

Design credits

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