Judd Palmer is one of the founders of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, a company that creates puppet theatre for adults and sometimes children and tours it around the world.  With the Old Trouts, Judd has directed, designed, written and performed in many shows, like Famous Puppet Death Scenes, Ghost Opera, and Jabberwocky, for example. He’s also designed the set, costumes and puppets for Vancouver and San Diego Opera’s Hansel & Gretel and Twelfth Night at Theatre Calgary and the National Arts Centre, has written and illustrated six children’s books (three of which have been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award), wrote, directed, and narrated the award-winning Old Trout Christmas special (produced by the National Film Board), co-wrote & did production design for a music video for Feist's song Honey Honey which won the Juno Award for Best Video,  and is also the general manager of Puente Theatre, a company based in Victoria dedicated to building bridges between cultures. In his misspent youth he was a puppeteer for Disney, Nickelodeon, and YTV, and also the slide banjo player in the stomp & holler trance blues band The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with the woman of his dreams, and their son, Max, who is currently five whole years old but will grow up to be a great conqueror.