Lisa Buckley is a Connecticut-based puppeteer[1] who performed Betty Lou and others on Sesame Street in the 1990s and was also a regular on Dog City.
Buckley is married to Bob Fappiano, an experienced puppet builder and performer, and both worked on ALF, performing occasional guest puppets and serving as "special assistants" to ALF. Other credits include Between the Lions, Space Cats, MATHmatazz, and the Indonesian puppet program Two Gardens.
Buckley has done much freelance work for CTW, aside from the Muppets. She designed and built puppets for "GE Science" (1997), a 40-episode co-production aired in China, starring Buckley as Omni; she designed, built and performed puppets for a pilot Ty & Lacy (1998); designed and built three poseable models for "Pebble Soup" (1998) photo shoots; and designed and built puppets and poseables for "Reading Road Show" and "MATHmatazz" (1999), performing Daisy, Annie, and six additional background puppets.
Muppet Credits
- Sesame Street: Betty Lou, Ida Nomer, Flo White, penguin (Episode 3145), Chinese Grouch (Episode 3300), mallard (Episode 3457), subject (Episode 3489), Grouch decorator (Episode 3609), delivery woman (Episode 3696), Georgie's girl (Episode 3699), small blue monster (Episode 3707), lamb (Episode 3870), others
- Muppet Meeting Films: Shirley in "Now Hear This!," Pineapple in "Top Ten Reasons to Take a Break"
- Dog City: Ms. Fluffé, Producer in "Farewell, My Rosie"
- The Phil Donahue Show
- It's Not Easy Being Green
- "Kokomo" music video[2]
- Do the Alphabet
- A is for Asthma
- The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street: One of The Three Little Pigs
- Elmo's World: Wild Wild West!
- Play with Me Sesame
- A Celebration of Me, Grover
- Sesame English Tours: Mike