Board and Staff

Cheryl Henson, President
Richard Termine, Vice President
Pam Arciero, Secretary
Louis Borodinsky, Treasurer

Leslee Asch
Raymond Carr
Ping Chong
Kurt Hunter
Dan Hurlin
Hanne Tierney

Lindsey “Z.” Briggs, Foundation Manager

Past board members:
Melissa Abbott, Eric Bass, Robert N. Bromberg, Bruce Cannon, Bradford Clark, Lynn Jeffries, John Farrell, Faz Fazakas, Kathee Foran, Janie Geiser, Albert Gottesman, Thea Hambright, Kristin Haverty, Jane Henson, Jim Henson, Heather Henson, Lisa Henson, Dan Hurlin, Liz Joyce, Allelu Kurten, George Latshaw, Mark Levenson, Jon Ludwig, Steven McIntosh, Roxanna Myhrum, Roman Paska, Martin Robinson, Nancy Staub, Carol Sterling, Blair Thomas, 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

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. 

Lindsey “Z.” Briggs – Foundation Manager
Z. has been working as a professional puppeteer since 2004 and has performed in television, pilots, live theater, and independent films. She studied at the University of Connecticut’s Puppet Arts MFA program and has attended and worked as staff for the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for multiple years. Z. performs live puppet theater for families throughout New York City as co-artistic director of WonderSpark Puppets and can be seen as monster foster mom Dalia on Sesame Street and the host Foley on the Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends on Audible.

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