Marilee Canaga

Marilee Canaga is a puppet and costume fabricator who worked on several Sesame Street Live shows and both Muppet Show stage shows, building the mechanical heads for the characters. She was also involved in Dinosaurs and usually worked with her mother, Mae Canaga.Quintanilla, Michael. "Beautifying the Beast : Couple Works All Night to Keep King Kong Looking His Scarifying Best." Los Angeles Times. September 16, 1992. She was one of many Muppet designers and employees who contributed to Quilting with the Muppets.
Canaga worked for Universal Studios theme park, cleaning and maintaining the animatronic King Kong and other chores. Outside of the Muppets and Creature Shop, she worked with Patrick Tatopoulos Designs on many projects including Godzilla, Stuart Little, and Dr. Dolittle 2 (as well as puppeteering on all three). In the costume field, she was lead suit fabricator for TRON: Legacy and worked on specialty costumes for The Avengers and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (both parts).
==Muppet/Creature Shop credits==
*Sesame Street Live
**A Sesame Street Mystery: The Case of the Missing Rara Avis: Mechanical animation assistance
**Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show: Mechanical animation assistance
**Sesame Jamboree: Mechanical animation assistance
**Around the World: Mechanical animation assistance
**Save Our Street: Mechanical animation
**Big Bird's Sesame Street Story: Mechanical animation
**Silly Dancing: Mechanical animation
**Sleeping Birdie: Mechanical animation
**Let's Play School: Mechanical animation
**When I Grow Up: Mechanical animation
*The Muppet Show: On Tour!: Heads built and animated by
*The Muppet Show on Tour: 2nd Edition: Heads built and animated by
*Dinosaurs: Animatronics/puppets
==Sources==
==External links==
* IMDb
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