Cheryl Wagner

Cheryl Wagner, the creator of The Big Comfy Couch, is a Gemini Award and Emmy award- winning Canadian children’s television writer, showrunner and producer who began her career as a performer in both theatre and on the screen. Her Halifax-based touring Merrytime Clown and Puppet Company in which Wagner worked as a clown and puppeteer from 1977 to 1980 provided a fertile ground for her later work as a producer and writer in children's entertainment.

Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock lured Wagner to Toronto to work as a puppeteer for the full five years and 96 episodes of the series from 1982-87. Wagner was Jim Henson's right hand when he performed his Fraggle characters Cantus and Convincing John. For season 2 to season 5 (1984 to 1987), Wagner provided the voice for the character Ma Gorg.

In 1984, Wagner performed as the meddling social worker Miss Finch [body suit] for the CTW Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird.

1n 1990, Wagner work as a puppeteer for the Canadian Sesame Street special, Basil Hears a Noise

Other television puppetry work included Annie on CBC's long-running preschool series Mr. Dressup and the role of Mrs. Pennypacker on TVO's Today's Special.

Post-Fraggle, Wagner joined forces with fellow puppeteer Rob Mills to develop and produce her clown and puppet series The Big Comfy Couch through his company Radical Sheep Productions. The show, broadcast by YTV/Treehouse in Canada and throughout the US on PBS-affiliates, features a young clown Loonette and her side-kick Molly the Doll and their adventures on and around a very big green couch. Wagner was the showrunner/story editor for The Big Comfy Couch's 100 episodes that spanned a production arc from 1992 to 2006 and won:

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