Larissa Deak
Larissa Deak is an Australian puppeteer, artist, designer, and arts worker who worked with a bunch of Creature Shop puppeteers on Series 1 of The Wiggles. She got to work with Graeme Haddon, Melissa King, Gavin Sainsbury, and Mat McCoy on the puppet segments of that show. Larissa has also been one of the committee members of UNIMA Australia since 2021, according to her LinkedIn profile. Deak did lots of stuff as an arts worker over the years such as designing and delivering creative programs for lots of venues such as theatre companies. She is also one of those puppeteers to be experienced tour guides, where she gave Public Art walking tours at the Museum of Brisbane. She must have felt honored to be one of the puppeteers on a series starring The Wiggles back in 1997-1998 when production happened to take place. I wonder what other productions Larissa Deak puppeteered on throughout her career. Maybe she was uncredited on the Creature Shop series Farscape, you never know when that kind o...