Peter and Wendy - Mabou Mines
1996 Production Grant, 1992 Workshop Grant, Photo: Richard Termine
2024-2025 Board and Staff
Cheryl Henson, President
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Amanda Card, Grants Manager
Hannah Hightman, Assistant
Past board members:
Melissa Abbott, Pam Arciero, Leslee Asch, Eric Bass, Robert N. Bromberg, Bruce Cannon, Raymond Carr, Ping Chong, Bradford Clark, John Farrell, Faz Fazakas, Kathee Foran, Janie Geiser, Albert Gottesman, Thea Hambright, Jane Henson, Jim Henson, Heather Henson, Lisa Henson, Dan Hurlin, Kurt Hunter, Lynn Jeffries, Liz Joyce, Allelu Kurten, George Latshaw, Mark Levenson, Jon Ludwig, Steven McIntosh, Roxanna Myhrum, Roman Paska, Martin P. Robinson, Nancy Staub, Carol Sterling, Leslie Strongwater, Blair Thomas, Chamindika Wanduragala, and Caroly Wilcox
“I believe puppet theater is true, transformative theater. Too much theater today lacks magic, imagination, poetry. It’s too much realism which the cinema and media can do so much better. Theater should be its own unique form and mostly it isn’t today. Puppetry is still carrying the torch for true theater. I wish there was more support in the United States for puppetry. The potential is limitless. Here’s to puppetry!!!” – Ping Chong
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Cheryl Henson – President
Cheryl Henson is the President of The Jim Henson Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors of The Jim Henson Company. From 1992 – 2000, Cheryl executive produced the award winning biennial Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater. During this time, Cheryl was also a Vice-President of The Jim Henson Company and worked with Sesame Street. In 1995, she co-wrote the book Muppets Make Puppets for Workman Press. In 2005, she edited a book of her father’s philosophy for Hyperion, It’s Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider. Cheryl was a puppet builder and designer and worked on many productions including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Muppet Show, The Storyteller, Bunny Picnic and Song of the Cloud Forest. Cheryl is a graduate of Yale and has a degree in textile design from F.I.T. Cheryl has been the President of The Jim Henson Foundation since 1992. She is also a member of the board of directors of The Center for Puppetry Arts and The Jim Henson Legacy.
Richard Termine – Vice President
Richard Termine began his career on Sesame Street where he received an Emmy Award for his puppet design and fabrication work. He also began photographing on-set which launched his career as a Performing Arts Photographer for The New York Times, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He received a BFA & MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut and is a founding member of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Puppetry Conference.
Hanne Tierney – Secretary
Hanne Tierney is the founder and director of Five Myles, an exhibition and performance space in Brooklyn. She has performed her work at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, BAM, Lincoln Center, HERE, the Public Theater and at several Jim Henson International Festivals, and has performed in museums and festivals throughout Europe.
Louis Borodinksy – Treasurer
Louis Borodinsky is a tax partner with Eisner Advisory Group, LLC with over 35 years of accounting experience in individual, estate and trust income taxation, estate and trust administration and public and private foundation filings and administration.
Amanda Glynn Card – Grants Manager
Amanda Glynn Card is a multidisciplinary theatre artist. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was awarded the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting. Her work has appeared at Object Movement’s 2021 and 2022 Puppetry Festivals, La MaMa etc, Puppets Come Home! At Coney Island, Teatro SEA’s Micro Theater Festival, Dixon Place’s Puppet BloK, Great Small Works’ Toy Theater Festival, Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret, Sarah Finn’s Our Bodies Like Dams at Mabou Mines, Bee Hall’s music video Park Song, Maiko Kikuchi and Spencer Lott’s 9000 Paper Balloons, and Maiko Kikuchi’s Daydream Tutorial. Her autobiographical musical puppet show Boy Crazy premiered at Ars Nova’s Ant Fest in 2023.
Hannah Hightman – Assistant & Social Media Coordinator
Hannah Hightman is a journalist, creative, and author. She graduated with her MA in Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism from The New School in 2022. Previously working as a copywriter, she manages an annual publication, Odradek, which is centered around various forms of uncanny life, including puppetry.
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Eisner Advisory Group, LLC – Accounting
Jeff Lofvers – Website Programming & Design
Debra Venable – Bookkeeper