Jim Henson Co.

Brian Henson is co-CEO of The Jim Henson Company and an award-winning director, producer, writer and performer. In recent years, Henson served as Executive Producer on the television projects "It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie," "Muppet Wizard of Oz," "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" (which he also directed), "Jim Henson's Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story" (which he also cowrote and directed). He also directed "Battleground," an Emmy Award-winning episode of the "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" anthology for TBS. Previous television projects that Henson produced include "Farscape," "Bear in the Big Blue House," "Gulliver's Travels," "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss," "Muppets Tonight" and "Dinosaurs." Henson's long list of film credits includes "The Great Muppet Caper," "Labyrinth," "The Witches," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "The Muppet Christmas Carol" and "Muppet Treasure Island." Henson has announced the development of "Farscape" webisodes, a 10-part webisode series, and an upcoming feature "Happytime Murders" based on the story by Todd Berger and Dee Robertson. Henson also oversees the groundbreaking work at Jim Henson's Creature Shop, one of Hollywood's preeminent character building, digital and physical visual effects facilities. Henson was part of the team that first created and utilized the Henson Performance Control System, a powerful custom-based interface for puppeteers, which won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Scientific and Engineering Award in 1992. Recently, he has been leading the Shop's work with its revolutionary digital puppeteering technology, the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio, and has served as director for "The Skrumps," the Company's newest troupe of animated characters brought to life using digital puppetry and seen exclusively at Yahoo! Kids. Henson also is the Executive Producer of "Sid the Science Kid," which uses the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio for a new science-readiness pre-school series, debuting on PBS this Fall. Henson created and launched the Company's new live stage show "Puppet Up! - Uncensored" which has toured to Aspen, Las Vegas, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne and is currently appearing monthly at Avalon Hollywood.

Bronwyn Lewis moved to Hollywood in August of 2004, and has since then mastered the art of the copier, read many bad scripts, and makes a mean latte. She's spent most of her free time in the last four months at The Jim Henson Company, or at a small management agency in Santa Monica where she crushes aspiring screenwriters' hopes and dreams. She used to read books, and even write, but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Forward all press inquiries and job offers to her at bronwyn@smrt-tv.com bronwyn@smrt-tv.com .

Kerry Shea joined The Jim Henson Company in 2006 after a 16 year film career spanning multi-discipline film production management in live-action, visual effects, motion capture and both CG and traditional animation. With experience on both the studio and vendor side she has a unique idea about how to approach creative challenges and make them work within budget and schedule. Since joining Henson, Shea has been instrumental in helping to streamline the Henson Digital Performance Studio, which allows 3 camera, multi-character, real-time animated projects to be produced on site in real time. Shea oversees all aspects of digital production working closely with Henson creative executives, artists and programmers as well as outside producers to ensure any project's creative vision is realized. Shea also works closely with the animatronics staff of Jim Henson's Creature Shop to develop unified creative solutions to production challenges (such as combining digital and animatronic technologies to create hybrid characters). Shea is a graduate of the University of Utah with a degree in English. She began her career as a production coordinator in live action films including Grosse Pointe Blank, Gang Relation, and Courage Under Fire. Shea's work on Alien Resurrection led to a string of visual effects films such as Dr. Dolittle, Stuart Little 2, Madagascar, Final Fantasy, Mission Mars and Bicentennial Man.

Peter Aoun guarantees that his seminar is the only course at UCLA where students will discuss super-powered monkeys, freaky half-bird children, people who marry foxes, and Johnny Depp. Peter is a third-year student majoring in Communication Studies with a minor in English. He serves as Co-Director of the Student Welfare Commission's Recycling Committee and is currently an intern with The Jim Henson Company. His iPod is full of indie music and his mind is full tricky thoughts. Peter's experiences tutoring for UCLA's Academic Advancement Program and teaching for Kaplan Test Prep have provided him with a love for leading learning, while his experience at a petting zoo has provided him with a love for loogie-launching llamas. In his spare time, Peter works on doodles and stories that he hopes to one-day turn into children's books.