Current credit: Designing togs for rabbit puppets on the Disney Channel’s new series “Bunny Town.” Previous credits: “Sesame Street,” for which she’s won two Daytime Emmy Awards; “The Muppet Show”; ...

The raw materials for puppet-making are piled in the corners: paper bags, cardboard, cloth scraps, dumpster-dived junk. Burger and Zimmerman make most of their masks with papier-mché; their formula is ...