14 Facts About Cheryl Henson

Cheryl Lee Henson was born on August 7,1961 and has served as the President of the Jim Henson Foundation since 1992.

Cheryl Henson is a philanthropist and supporter of puppetry arts and artists, and serves as a board member of The Jim Henson Company.

Cheryl Henson was honored in 2010 at the LaMama Gala, and in 2011, she won the New Victory Arts Award for her leadership in puppetry.

Cheryl Henson is the second child of Jim Henson and Jane Henson.

Cheryl Henson began her career building puppets for The Muppet Show while still in high school.

Cheryl Henson attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and earned a degree in textile design in 1987.

Cheryl Henson sold her own original fabric designs and continued to work on specific projects at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London and New York, creating puppets for The Storyteller and Mother Goose Stories, and serving as Art Director for The Song of the Cloud Forest, an episode of The Jim Henson Hour.

In 1988, Cheryl Henson designed and built Hugo the Hornet, the first mascot of the Charlotte Hornets NBA basketball team.

From 1992 to 2000, Cheryl Henson was a Vice President of The Jim Cheryl Henson Company, specifically charged with coordinating between the company and the Children's Television Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street.

Since 2003, when the Cheryl Henson siblings repurchased The Jim Cheryl Henson Company, she has worked with the company's New York branch, where the Sesame Street puppets continue to be designed and fabricated.

Since 1992, Cheryl Henson has been the President of The Jim Henson Foundation, which supports innovative contemporary American puppet theater.

Cheryl Henson co-created the Puppets on Film festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which ran annually from 2011 to 2014.

Cheryl Henson is on the board of the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, home to the Worlds of Puppetry Museum, which showcases the largest collection of Jim Henson's puppets and the most substantial collection of global puppetry on display in the United States.

Cheryl Henson has been married to Edwin A Finn Jr.