Joe Kovacs
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Look Ma... Two Hands!
Male
41 years old
Astoria, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 3/1/2009
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| General | Originally from Independence, Ohio, Joe Kovacs received two puppets from his Grandfather on his third birthday and never really put them down. From then on no yarn, button or scrap of fabric was safe. Unattended kitchen utensils found themselves draped in chiffon dancing to “The Nutcracker Suite” or emoting passages from Mother Goose. At the age of four his production of “Red Hood Riding” performed from behind the living room sofa was heralded by the family as being “longer then ‘Gone with the Wind’ and far less dangerous to watch than the pressure cooker.” Thankfully the orange and the butcher knife incident two years prior didn’t cut this budding career short by a digit. From there, glided castles of macaroni-covered cardboard and overgrown forests of tissue paper and toilet paper tubes were sprouting up monthly. Ever on the cutting edge of theater at the Kovacs home, Joe’s shows were known for there “Non-traditional casting.”
Many a plush creature made the leap from just a “stuffed animal on a bed” to the “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” on a stick. At the age of eight with his roots deeply imbedded in puppetry Joe branched out into the world of acting. First, as a delinquent rabbit in need of a carrot fix from the McGregor’s Garden, onto far too many productions of the musical “Oliver!” Seeing that this “phase” was not going to end anytime soon, Joe was enrolled in the Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Since Graduation Joe has performed all over the world, as far away as the exotic island of Bahrain to the breath- taking Paris, Kentucky. You can find him doing the “Bear Cha, Cha, Cha” and sniffing toddlers on the Henson Home Video release “Bear in the Big Blue House, LIVE.”
Not only a performer, Joe has created puppets and costumes for, The Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Cincinnati Children’s Theatre among others. From September 2004 to September 2008 Joe was the puppeteer,heart and sole for “Madame” who made a splash in nightclubs, casinos and on television from 1970 to 1988 with her creator and partner the late Wayland Flowers.
| | Movies | Dream Child , The City of Lost Children , Pillow Talk ,
The Dark Crystal , The Boyfriend , Strictly Ballroom ,
Cosi , Paris is Burning , Girls will be Girls | | Television | CSI Food Network any stop motion animated Holiday Special from the Enchanted World of Rankin and Bass Bear in the Big Blue House Anything from the World of Sid and Marty Krofft The Muppet Show | | Books | Picture Books!
The ones with words are hard | | Heroes | Peter Pan as of 8/18/08 ME! |
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Joe Kovacs's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Cincinnati, Ohio | | Body type: | 6' 0" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Occupation: | Puppeteer |
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Joe Kovacs's Companies
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Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio US
Puppeteer
Entertainment
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1984-1993
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Carowinds
Charlotte, NC US
Costume Supervisor
Entertainment
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1990 something
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Jim Henson Company
Nerw York, NY US
Puppeteer
Promotional Bears
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1998-2006
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Vee Corporation
MN US
Bear
Bear In The Big Blue House LIVE
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2000 -2003
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About me:
.. .. < from birth not an Aveune Q Workshop> < I Worked inside a Bear in a House on the Road for many, many, many years. And I've spent the past four years volunteering, you could say, to bring an old puppet broad back to life. But instead I managed to bring me back to life. Make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, even if nobody else sings along.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Bette MidlerGeorge Eads George Clooney Bernadette Peters
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