Jake Bazel is a puppeteer, voice actor, writer and coach with over a decade of experience working in children’s media. Credits include Sesame Street (HBO/PBS), Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Stage Adaptation (Disney Theatrical), Sesame Workshop’s Helpsters (Apple TV+), Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with both Disney’s Muppets (Disney/NBC) and Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop/NBC), zivaKIDS, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Paddington Gets in a Jam, Sandra Boynton’s Frog Trouble, Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train Live!, and Sesame Street in Communities. He has directed two national tours of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, as well as an international tour and two regional co-productions. As a writer, he helped to craft Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Stage Adaptation, and went on to create the original series Duncan the Skunk and the Big Costume Trunk!, available to stream now on Hellosaurus. For more information, visit www.jakebazel.com.