Jake Bazel is a puppeteer, voice actor, writer and coach with over a decade of experience working in children’s media who played Winnie The Pooh in the musical. he first originated the role in the shows first run in 2021 in New York. then he played the character again in the first 2 months of the 4 month engagement in Chicago 2022. then he came back to the role for the 2 month return to New York. then he came back when the show debuted in the uk in march 2023 when it stayed at riverside studio for 4 month before leaving before the show can go on their tour in June currently making that the final time he played pooh.
Credits include Sesame Street (HBO/PBS), Sesame Workshop’s Helpsters (Apple TV+), The 90th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Disney’s Muppets (Disney/NBC), The 93rd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop/NBC), Duncan the Skunk and the Big Costume Trunk! (Hellosaurus), zivaKIDS, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Paddington Gets in a Jam, Sandra Boynton’s Frog Trouble, Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train Live!, Sesame Street in Communities, appearances as Wayland Flowers’ Madame, and various collaborations with both John Tartaglia and The Mill. He has directed two national tours of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, as well as an international tour and two regional co-productions. As a writer, he helped to craft Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Stage Adaptation and helmed its picture book counterpart, and created the original series Duncan the Skunk and the Big Costume Trunk!, available to stream now on the Kidscreen Award-winning interactive platform Hellosaurus. He often serves on faculty at The Highlights Foundation and as an Animation Voice Acting coach alongside Sunday Muse at Great Big Voices.
Jake Bazel is a puppeteer, voice actor, writer, and coach with over a decade of experience working in children’s media.
Credits: Sesame Street (HBO/PBS), Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Stage Adaptation (Disney Theatrical), Sesame Workshop’s Helpsters (Apple TV+), The 90th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Disney’s Muppets (Disney/NBC), The 93rd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop/ NBC), Duncan the Skunk and the Big Costume Trunk (Hellosaurus), zivaKIDS, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Paddington Gets in a Jam, Paddington Saves Christmas, Sandra Boynton’s Frog Trouble, Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train Live!, Sesame Street in Communities, and various ad collaborations with The Mill.
Directing Credits: Two national tours of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, as well as an international tour and two regional co-productions.
Writing Credits: Jake helped to craft Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Stage Adaptation and created the original series Duncan the Skunk and the Big Costume Trunk, streaming now on the Kidscreen Award-winning interactive platform Hellosaurus. He often serves on faculty at the Highlights Foundation and as an Animation Voice Acting coach alongside Sunday Muse at Great Big Voices.
Gallery[]
.jpg "W768 (2).jpg (55 KB)")
