AFM: We would love to learn a little background on you. Where did you grow up? Did you go to college?

Terry Fator: “I grew up in Dallas and in the Dallas area pretty much my whole childhood. I went to college at Liberty University but only stayed about a year. My brain was moving at such a rapid speed and I would get so impatient! I finally, this year actually, got a degree from my hometown in Art and Drama. I am now a college graduate and it feels so good to say that; at 53, I may add!”

AFM: How did you become a ventriloquist? Is it something that came naturally to you?

TF: “It came so naturally to me. Truly it did. I knew I always wanted to be an entertainer because I was always entertaining. I was voted the class clown every single year. I was always cracking jokes at my classmates, family, anyone! At age 10, I picked up a book on ventriloquists and thought this might be fun. It came so naturally from there. In about an hour or so, I had figured out how to do it. I went out and bought a $10 puppet from Sears and would do these mini-shows for the kids in my neighborhood. Then finally at age 18, I got my first real professional puppet and the rest is history!”