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Puppeteering during a pandemic takes practice â and patience.
Just ask the folks behind âDonkey Hodie,â a new PBS series based on a Fred Rogers character.
âThe challenge is the audio,â says David Rudman, one of the showâs producers and the man behind Bob Dog. âSome masks work for me and I donât sound too muffled.â Others might not click for other puppeteers. âWe have been doing a lot of looping on the show because some of the audio is unusable.â
Rudman tried a heavier mask â often called a âsingerâs maskâ â and he almost lost consciousness. âBob Dog is very energetic,â he explains. âHe pants a lot and thereâs a lot of running around. I had to run out of the studio, take the mask off and get some air into my system. That mask didnât work for me.â
TVKIDS
Donkey Hodie Delivers Messages of Perseverance & Resilience about the Fred Rogers-inspired series Donkey Hodie
, which has bowed on PBS KIDS in the U.S.
The whimsical puppet series
Donkey Hodie, produced by Fred Rogers Productions and Spiffy Pictures, debuted earlier this week on PBS KIDS in the U.S. The show follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie character from
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and is inspired by the quirky, funny side of Fred Rogers.
“Paul Siefken, president and CEO of Fred Rogers Productions, and I had an idea to do a preschool show about perseverance that focused on a little donkey with big dreams,” says Ellen Doherty, chief creative officer at Fred Rogers Productions and executive producer of