Frank is a Los Angeles based artist with 35 years experience serving the entertainment industry by bringing dreams and fantasies into reality. With a life long fascination with how things move, he has become highly skilled in character/ suit performance and all forms of puppetry.
Beyond performance, his creative mastery includes fabrication of sets, props, puppets, creatures, specialty costumes and masks. Frank’s skillset forms a unique bridge between the performance and fabrication worlds and his talents are sought after by many top producers.
He is an enthusiastic problem solver in bringing 2D designs into the 3D world and is a super chill team player. His mission is to lift spirits through creativity and he is supremely dedicated to bringing your characters to life.
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Y2K
Suit performer “Screenslayer” | 2024
Marcel the Shell with shoes on
Puppeteer “Marcel” | 2021
Aquaman
Costume Fabricator | 2018
F.R.E.D.I.
Puppeteer “Title Character” | 2018
Brigsby Bear
Suit Performer “Title Character” | 2017
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
Lead Puppeteer | 2017
Voodoo Possession
Suit Performer “Tormentor” | 2014
Pacific Rim
Costume Fabricator | 2013
Bad Milo
Puppeteer “Title Character” | 2013
Hell Baby
Puppeteer “Title Character” | 2013
The Future
Puppeteer “t-shirt” | 2011
TRON: Legacy
Costume Fabricator | 2010
Splinter
Special FX Creature Creator | 2008
Norbit
Puppeteer “Duck and Pig” | 2007
Team America: World Police
Puppet Coordinator and Principal Puppeteer | 2004
Spider|Man 2
Puppeteer “Doc Ock tentacles” | 2004
Snow Dogs
Puppet Fabrication | 2002
Country Bears
Creature Fabrication | 2002
Stuart Little 2
Puppet Fabrication | 2002
Cats and Dogs
Puppet Fabrication | 2002
Masked Singer: Seasons 1-6
Mask fabricator | 2019-2021
Blark and Son: Season 1
Puppeteer: “multiple characters” | 2021
The Mandalorian
Costume Fabrication | 2019
SpongeBob SquarePants
Puppeteer “Potty Parrot” | 2016- 2019
Community
Costume Fabrication | 2010
Saturday Night Live
Musical Performance with Beck | 2006
Stargate SG-1:
Puppeteer “Tealc” | 2006
Grey’s Anatomy:
Puppeteer “Premie Baby” | 2004
B.R.A.T.S. of the Los Nebula:
Puppet Fabricator” | 1999
Keenan Ivory Wayans Show:
Puppeteer “The Count” | 1998
Jellybean Jungle: Seaon 1:
Art Director | 1995
Solar Opposites: WTF is Christmas
Puppeteer | 2022
Ed Sheeran: Happier
Puppeteer | 2018
David Bowie: Love is Lost (Steve Reich Mix)
Puppet fabricator | 2013
Beck: Nausea (uncompressed)
Puppeteer and puppet fabricator | 2010
Marilyn Manson: Lunchbox
Assistant Art Director | 1995
Jon Secada: Just Another Day
Assistant Art Director | 1992
The Kinks: How Do I Get Close
Assistant Director | 1989
Meta Quest: Old Friends-Super Bowl
Puppet fabricator and puppeteer “Cometeers” | 2022
American Red Cross: The Great Escape
Suit Performer “Play Mobil Man” | 2021-Present
Truist Bank: Care
Creature fabrication and puppeteer: “Caremaker” | 2021
Foster Farms: Foster Imposter Campaign
Puppet fabricator and puppeteer “Driver Chicken” | 2007-2017
Kobolds and Catacombs
Puppet fabricator and puppeteer | 2017
“Keymaster Vex”
KFC: Buckets- Rob Riggle
Costume Fabrication and Bucket Suit Performer | 2016
Progressive Insurance: Flodilocks
Suit performer “Mama Bear” | 2015
Max Steele Toy Line
Puppeteer “Max Steele” | 2008
Old Navy
Puppeteer “Fash” | 2008
Grocery Outlet: Campaign
Puppeteer “Multiple characters” | 2008
Burger King
Puppet fabrication and puppeteer “Sand-Witch” | 2003
Travis Scott Tour: SoFi Stadium Show
Suit Performer “Gorilla” | 2023
Jeff Hull’s: Wolfe Canyon Cortège
Suit Performer: “The Shaman” | 2023
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero Tour
Iconic Wings Fabrication |2022
Chance the Rapper: World Coloring Tour
Puppeteer and Puppet Fabricator “Carlos the Lion” | 2016
Katy Perry Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show
Costume Fabrication | 2015
Katy Perry Prismatic Tour
Costume Fabrication | 2015
Miley Cyrus Milky Milky Milk Tour
Costume Fabrication | 2015
Beck’s Guero and Information World Tour
Puppeteer and Puppet Fabricator | 2006
As an artist in the entertainment industry, Frank has worked in many creative capacities during his remarkable 35-year career. Prop building and set construction preceded his art directing on a puppet tv series in Miami. From there he moved to Los Angeles (where he still resides) and jumped into fabricating puppets and creatures at the Jim Henson Creature Shop.
After working on several films there, a tv series, and a music video for David Bowie, he moved over to work with the Chiodo Brothers. There he helped create walk-around dinosaurs for Universal Studios in Japan, he was shop coordinator and principal puppeteer on “Team America: World Police” and most recently helped bring “Marcel the Shell with shoes on” to life for A24.
His other movie performance credits include working with Sam Raimi on the Doc Ock Tentacles for “Spider Man 2”, suit performing the title character in Kyle Mooney’s “Brigsby Bear” and he was lead puppeteer on “Bad Milo”, where he got to kill Patrick Warburton in an elevator and bite Peter Stormare’s ass.
He’s also had the extraordinary rock star experience of performing live in front of tens of thousands, having puppeteered on world concert tours with Beck and Chance the Rapper and recently performed as a silverback gorilla on Travis Scott’s Tour.
His other live show credits reveal another of Frank’s talents, this time as costume fabricator, where helped create looks for Katy Perry’s “Prismatic Tour” and her Super-Bowl Halftime Show. He worked on Miley Cyrus’ “Milky Milky Milk Tour” and most recently helped create the iconic wings for Lil Nas X’s “Long Live Montero Tour”.
He’s also done costume fabrication on many feature films including TRON: Legacy, Aquaman, Pacific Rim and the first season of The Mandalorian.
His favorite collaboration of late was being one of the principle mask makers, working with Marina Toybina, on the first 6 seasons of Fox’s “The Masked Singer”. He got to create the Pineapple for Tommy Chong, the Fox for Wayne Brady, the Raccoon for Danny Trejo, the Chameleon for Wiz Khalefa, the Mushroom for Aloe Blacc and many more.
Frank looks forward to continuing on broadening his many skills and his network of collaborators to help create and perform these really cool things we keep coming up with.