David Valentine with "Hugo."
David Valentine with newly refurbished display Oscar.
David Valentine is a Daytime Emmy winning fabricator of puppets, props, and set pieces with the Jim Henson Company. He began his work with the company in 2014. Prior to Henson, David was a puppet builder for Puppet Heap in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over the course of 3 years David restored more than 50 puppets for The Jim Henson Exhibition, a perminent installation within the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI). Some of those puppets are traveling around the Unitied States with The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited.
Victoria Ellis and David Valentine with a horse puppet for Princess Cruiseline.
Muppet/Henson credits[]
- Muppets Most Wanted: built Happy Yellow Creature, assistant builder of Constantine plus refurbishment and prop building
- The Furchester Hotel: built Turtle, squid/octopus, mirrorball
- Sesame Street (seasons 46-52)
- Julie's Greenroom: built Hugo the duck, Hugo's Father
- The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
- The Jim Henson Exhibition: restoration of 30+ Muppets, built the "create your own Fat Blue" puppet
- The Happytime Murders: New York puppet fabricator
- Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
- The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
- The Power of We
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live