John StevensonJohn Stevenson served as a storyboard artist/designer and background puppeteer on
The Muppet Show. One of his more notable contributions was the
whale sequence from
episode 516, which Stevenson later adapted as the book
The Whale Tale. Stevenson also worked on
The Great Muppet Caper,
The Dark Crystal,
Little Shop of Horrors,
Labyrinth,
The Jim Henson Hour and
B.R.A.T.S. of the Lost Nebula, and contributed to the book
Muppet Madness, as well as some
Muppet coloring books.
More recently, Stevenson directed the 2008 Dreamworks film Kung Fu Panda.