Welcome to Puppet Island

Puppet Island is the puppet shop run by well-known puppeteer and showrunner Jamie Shannon.   Jamie Shannon has created over 900 hours of Broadcast Childrens’ television, commercials, and film.  Inspired by the creature creating legend’s of the late 70’s and 80’s, Speilberg, Lucas and Henson, Jamie created his own troupe of puppets whilst attending film school, the quirky characters known as “The Grogs” soon found a home on Canadian cable channel YTV. Performing daily as live on-air hosts for the network for 3 years, culminating with a 24 hour channel takeover. THE GROG’S, success led Jamie to create the long running preschool series NANALAN’, based on his Nana’s backyard. Nanalan’ aired on Nick Jr, PBS, CBC and was sold into 30 countries around the world. The series garnered three nominations and winning 2 Gemini awards (Best Writing and Best Performance in a Preschool Series). 

After Nanalan’ Jamie created the equally successful cult teen puppet series MR MEATY for Nickelodeon. Once again he puppeteered and voiced multiple characters as well as writing and directing for the series. In addition to MR MEATY, Jamie worked for numerous networks; including Disney (OOH, AAH and YOU), directing the pilot and overseeing the first series of BIG AND SMALL for the BBC, directing and creating characters for the entire second season of GIVER (a documentary style show for TVO), and creating and also providing the voices for several characters YTV’s animated series WEIRD YEARS. 

An experienced director and master puppeteer Jamie has brought to life unique characters for countless projects. Including music videos for the likes of SIA and KID ROCK. Short films such as the 2013 Sundance short film, WAKENING; the Spike Jonze produced HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP; and for Heather Henson’s Ibex Films THE LEGEND OF RASPUTIN.  Live action series such as R.L. Stines’ GOOSEBUMPS, The Comedy Channel’s HOT BOX and the Sinking Ship’s ODD SQUAD on PBS and CBBC. Recently he created segments for "The Barbarian and Troll"  and puppeteered "Ollie" from Netflix upcoming Lost Ollie.

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