Neusa de Souza

Neusa de Souza is a Brazilian puppeteer who performed Sivan (originally performed by Efrat Gonan) on the Brazilian co-production of Sesame Street, Vila Sesamo. From 2014-2016, she has done Sivan in the hosting segments of the series since it's mainly a programming block. Neusa appeared to be lucky to play an Muppet character originally from Israel. Souza got to work with two other Brazilian puppeteers while working on Vila Sesamo, Fernando Gomes and Magda Crudelli who must have been her closest friends. Outside of Vila Sesamo, she performed on Galinha ZAZA and Papagaio CACO, not to mention Cocorico with her puppeteer friends. I wonder how Neusa de Souza got selected to perform Sivan when the character moved to Brazil. The producers of Vila Sesamo must have seen her puppetry work on all of those shows. She probably wished she could have performed Sivan more when Vila Sesamo stopped production after 2016 and when the character got retired. Neusa is either puppeteering on other shows today or is retired from puppeteering completely. Souza should get in touch with her friends, just to see how they are doing since Villa Sesamo has ended in 2016. Cocorico was probably her best known show since it was popular. Neusa de Souza, you've done a great job taking over the Sivan character when she moved. I hope you keep on puppeteering on other Brazilian shows and meeting more people. You never know when there will be another show featuring puppetry Neusa. Keep up the great puppetry Souza!

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