Frith in Wow, You're a Cartoonist!.
Jonathan Frith with the "Beautiful Day" puppet he made at age twelve at the Muppet Shop.
Jonathan Frith is a folk musician, carpenter, filmmaker, and occasional puppeteer. He is the son of Michael K. Frith.
Frith was a member of the Muppet family from the age of five, when his father joined Henson Associates. Something of a self-proclaimed "Muppet Rat," he spent countless hours playing with the puppets, hanging out in the Muppet Workshop and at photo shoots.
Frith performed in the chorus on the Sesame Street albums Born to Add and Sesame Road, assisted on the Miss Piggy calendar photo shoots, and puppeteered on the Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He also assisted in archiving many of Jim Henson's original sketches before the establishment of the Jim Henson Company Archives.
At the age of ten, Frith puppeteered a Pod Person in the background in The Dark Crystal, and at thirteen appeared on the first episode of Fraggle Rock as one of the group of kids Uncle Traveling Matt first encounters. Four years later he appeared onscreen again in the home video Wow, You're a Cartoonist! to show P.J. and Kai-Lee how a cartoonist can draw character bodies. He also provided the arm of Kermit the Frog in close-ups when the frog demonstrates how to draw animals.
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- Jonathan Frith's stepmother is Kathryn Mullen, performer of Mokey Fraggle and Kira, among many others.
- Jonathan Frith and Heather Henson attended the Rhode Island School of Design together.