Donna Kimball

With Cotterpin Doozer

Donna Kimball (b. March 19) is a puppeteer who has worked on many Jim Henson Company projects since the sale of the Muppets to The Walt Disney Company, including Puppet Up! live shows, Pajanimals, The Happytime Murders, and other web and TV productions. She has played Mokey Fraggle, first in a non-speaking capacity in the 2012 music video "Do It Anyway," then at the 2016 Puppets for Puppetry event for Dave Goelz, and in the Fraggle Rock: Rock On! shorts. For the reboot series Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, she additionally took over the roles of Cotterpin Doozer and Storyteller Fraggle. She also voiced Aughra in 2019's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

Outside of Henson, Kimball was a regular puppeteer on Greg the Bunny and Crank Yankers. Other credits include puppet appearances on Community, Angel, Glee, Jane the Virgin, and Life in Pieces. Working with Sid and Marty Krofft, she puppeteered and voiced Mama on the Amazon Prime series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Zoe the cat on Nickelodeon's Mutt & Stuff, and H.R. Pufnstuf characters Freddy the Flute and the face of Pufnstuf himself on a Mutt & Stuff episode. In film, she puppeteered the arms of Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2, worked uncredited on Team America: World Police, and had on-camera roles in Patch Adams, Catch Me If You Can, and Jarhead.

Muppet/Henson credits

• Puppet Up!
• The Happytime Murders: Roxy (puppeteer only), Cow, Rotten Cotton Girl
• Splash and Bubbles
• Word Party: Franny (facial puppeteer/voice)
• Sid the Science Kid: Susie (facial puppeteer/voice) and Zeke (puppeteer only)
• Pajanimals: Sweetpea Sue, Bedtime Bunny, Granny Pearl
• Hotdog TV
• Teeny Tiny Dogs: Butterfly
• No, You Shut Up!
• Neil's Puppet Dreams
• Good Morning Today
• Late Night Liars
• Earth to Ned
• The Muppets Mayhem: Dr. Teeth, Floyd Pepper, and Janice assistant

External links

• Puppeteer Reel
• IMDb
• Under the Puppet interview June 1, 2017
• Under the Puppet interview May 18, 2020