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Or make that 27, because Pudgy, Betty’s pug, a marionette with a lolling pink tongue operated by the puppeteer Phillip Huber, sometimes shakes a leg too.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The church puppeteer took Piphus and some other kids to a puppetry/ventriloquism festival in a nearby state, and Piphus was hooked.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Masha is power and so that’s what’s so appealing — and then also getting to be the puppeteer of this whole group.
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
The new songs are forgettable, and there’s a host of new characters (including a talking seagull and a puppeteer) that do nothing but weigh things down.
—Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The church puppeteer took Piphus and some other kids to a puppetry/ventriloquism festival in a nearby state, and Piphus was hooked.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Masha is power and so that’s what’s so appealing — and then also getting to be the puppeteer of this whole group.
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
The new songs are forgettable, and there’s a host of new characters (including a talking seagull and a puppeteer) that do nothing but weigh things down.
—Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Puppeteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puppeteer. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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puppeteer
noun
pup·pe·teer
ˌpəp-ə-ˈti(ə)r 
: one who works puppets
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