James Godwin

James Godwin is a puppeteer, performance artist, visual artist and actor who served as a Muppet performer on Elmo's Christmas Countdown and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. For Puppet Heap, he was a designer and builder on The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. He worked on several Jim Henson Company projects as a performer and/or fabricator including Stuffed and Unstrung and Julie's Greenroom. 
Godwin's non-Muppet credits include such series as It's a Big Big World (as Bob), The Book of Pooh (puppeteering Pooh), Between the Lions, Oobi, and Helpsters. He also participated in the Sesame Street parody sketch "Knee High Park" on Chappelle's Show. He puppeteered the Wyatt Cenac puppet at the White House on The Daily Show. 
Godwin founded the puppet troupe the Elementals, which has performed at the Jim Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater. He co-wrote and starred in the adult puppet variety stage show Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement. As a voice actor, Godwin played Private Public and Farmer John on Mo Willems' Sheep in the Big City and was heard in Ice Age: The Meltdown. He has worked with Julie Taymor, David Bowie and Aerosmith. His film and TV credits include I Sell the Dead, Saturday Night Live, and the film Stake Land.
Godwin's one man puppet and performance art show, Lunatic Cunning, took home best in show at the Puppeteers of America Festival and was the winner of the prestigious Jim Henson Award for Innovation. The show was also the recipient of a 2012 project grant from the Jim Henson Foundation and had its premiere at Dixon Place in N.Y.C. in April of that year.
==External links==
*The Elementals official site
*IMDb
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