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The Flying Monkeys, from The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.

Julie Zobel began her career at Henson in New York City in 1980 as part of the Costume Department. She specialized in designing, creating, and building the large walkaround characters that were employed by arena shows and public relations, such as Sesame Street Live, Muppet Show on Tour, and Muppet Babies on Tour. She worked on numerous other Henson productions and toy prototyping during those years as well.

In 1991, she moved out to Los Angeles to be part of the LA Creature Shop when Dinosaurs went into production and remained there to be a part of opening the west coast Creature Shop. Her work in Los Angeles has often been for outside production companies who want realistic animal puppets to match performing animals in movies such as Dr. Dolittle. Fifteen years after leaving the New York Workshop, Julie Zobel often finds her time spent working with familiar Muppet characters once again.

Design Credits

• The Producers (film, 2006) - puppet builder
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)- senior puppet builder
• The Ladykillers (2004) - puppet prop builder
• The Country Bears (2002)- Project Supervisor
• Cats & Dogs (2001)- Senior puppet builder
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)- on-set puppet technician
• Jack Frost (1998)- Jack Frost costume designer
• Dr. Dolittle (1998)- puppet builder
• George of the Jungle (1997)- gorilla costumer
• The Phantom (1996)- Specialty costume designer/builder
• Song of the Cloud Forest- puppet builder
• The Tale of the Bunny Picnic- puppet builder
• Fraggle Rock episodes- costume/puppet designer/builder
• Sesame Street episodes- costume designer/builder