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Jani Lauzon
Jani Lauzon is a Canadian puppeteer and musician of Métis heritage from East Kootenay, British Columbia. She is a three-time Juno Award Nominee with Muppet Show credits that include additional puppetry on "Follow That Bird", performing on "The Jim Henson Hour", and the character Dip in the "Sesame Street Canada" television special "Basil Hears a Noise".
Her other non-Henson credits include Maggie on "Groundling Marsh" and regular roles on "The Big Comfy Couch", "
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In 2012, he performed the title role in an all-aboriginal production of William Shakespeare's "King Lear" at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, alongside a cast that also included Billy Merasty as Gloucester, Tantoo Cardinal as Regan, Jani Lauzon in a dual role as Cordelia and the Fool, Craig Lauzon as Kent, and the play's assistant director, Lorne Cardinal, as The Duke of Albany.
During his lifetime, Schellenberg taught acting seminars at Toronto's Centre for Indigenous