Jamie Shannon

Jamie Shannon is a well known puppeteer and show runner who has created over 900 hours of Broadcast Children's television. Inspired by the legendary Jim 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 Grogs" 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 garnering 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, Jam