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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.
- Sesame Street (starting with season 46)
- The Furchester Hotel Built Turtle, squid/octopus, mirrorball
- The Jim Henson Exhibition Restoration of 30+ muppets. Built the “create your own fat blue” puppet.
- The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
- Julie's Greenroom built “Hugo” the duck, Hugo’s Father.