Cedwan Hooks is a puppetry designer and character fabricator. Cedwan is originally from in Kansas City, KS. He has been awarded a Blue Star Award for Puppet Design and Creation from the Starlight Theater in Kansas City, been a two-time recipient of the Mike and Francis Oznowicz Youth Scholarship for the National Puppetry Festival, and been featured on FOX 4 News as a Reaching 4 Excellence Young Achiever. More recently, he worked in Macau, China as a Puppetry Designer and Character Performer with The DreamWorks Experience. Cedwan is now based in Atlanta, Georgia. Characters he builds and performs appear in advertisements, live shows, film, and television.