Ingrid Hansen, SNAFU

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Raised by gregarious Danish immigrants, Ingrid is a television puppeteer, voice actor, and theatre creator. Ingrid puppeteers for Sesame and Henson. She plays Heart, a lovable agender orange monster on Helpsters, Sesame Workshop’s Emmy-Award-Winning series for AppleTV+. In 2021 she puppeteered and voiced characters on Henson’s new Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock series. For the TreehouseTV/Amazon show Miss Persona, Ingrid puppeteers Melissa the Dog, and also choreographed and directed on several music videos, including getting to direct scenes with Canadian TV legend Fred Penner and choreograph ballet for ‘Letterkenny’ comedian K. Trevor Wilson. (Both as magical in person as you would expect.) She also puppeteered and voiced Gertie the Gopher for four seasons of Tiga Talk (APTN), and appeared on Princess Sparkly Butt and The Hot Dog Kid (Teletoon).

In 2006 Ingrid co-founded SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles. With SNAFU, Ingrid has co-authored and co-produced 21 live shows including Epidermis Circus, Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane, Interstellar Elder, Table Top Tales, Snack Music and The Merkin Sisters. SNAFU’s work has been presented by the National Arts Centre, The SummerWorks Festival, The Great Canadian Theatre Centre, The Centaur Theatre, the International Festival of Animated Objects, and festivals across Canada.

For the past decade, Ingrid has built an ongoing collaboration with the prisoners at William Head on Stage, the only prison theatre company in Canada that performs for the public. She teaches workshops from kinder to adult. She also sometimes puppeteers on the hood of a car.