Pons Maar

Pons Maar is originally from Florida where he studied ceramics and visual art After moving to San Francisco he became a fixture on the local arts scene as a graphic designer and performance artist and as a musician playing in a couple of artpunk bands At one of his solo performances of Natural Enemies he was seen by Oscarwinning Sound DesignerEditor Walter Murch and cast as the Lead Wheeler in Walters first directing effort Return to Oz 1985 Pons acted in the film as well as serving as the Performance Coordinator starting what was to become a pattern of working on both sides of the camera Following with other nonhuman roles in Golden Child 1987 and Masters of the Universe 1988 he continued to delve deeper into extreme latex makeup and huge hot and heavy creature and fantasy character suits After the full 65 episode run on the TV show Dinosaurs 1991 and playing the lead character in Theodore Rex 1995 Pons then focused on Coordinating Puppets and Creatures in various feature films and TV productions Pons served as the CoHead of the Screen Actors Guild Puppeteer Committee from 20032005 During this time he and cohead Kevin Carlson were able to change the puppeteers status from a caucus to a full committee Currently 2017 he is a partner in TASTY NAME a boutique video production company based in Alameda CA