On his way to Sesame Street, puppeteer DerRic Starlight found Fraggles and the Foo Fighters

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Last year DerRic Starlight nearly missed the gig of a lifetime.“I was a little slow about trying to get to the audition for the Fraggle Rock reboot in Calgary,” bashfully admits Starlight, an Edmonton-based puppeteer hailing originally from the Tsuut’ina Nation reserve just outside of Calgary. “One of the producers that I had worked with on a wrestling show with the Hart family said, ‘You know, we’ve got numbers for Fraggle Rock, we’ve already talked to them about you.’ So I contacted them, and despite the fact that I was two weeks late, they let me audition.”Needless to say, Starlight impressed the producers and was hired last year with 11 other Alberta puppeteers for a five-month stint as Fraggles, Doozers and Gorgs on the cult comedy-fantasy show. He also scored a bonus gig on a video for the Foo Fighters’ version of the song, Fraggle Rock Rock. Read More
Source: EdmontonJournal