Schwartz also served as an additional puppeteer on The Muppet Movie and was the focus of one of Jim Henson's The World of Puppetry specials. Schwartz performed extensively on stage in the 1980s, using a bunraku style to present elaborate, Elizabethan-style dramas such as She Moved Through the Fair. He performed with handpuppets in such Portable Puppet Show productions as The Rat of Huge Proportions. His work is featured in the Jim Henson documentary, Here Come the Puppets.