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Larissa has been casting for over 20 years, and her resume has included film, television, commercials, audiobooks, animation, and theatre. She’s built her career on being committed to inclusion and diversity in the casting process and has loved discovering many fresh faces in the industry who have launched to great success. She is currently casting for an untitled KPop series for CBC/The BBC, as well as the upcoming third season of CBC comedy Run The Burbs, and has just wrapped up casting two audiobook series for Audible and a roster of brand new television series including Davey and Jonesie’s Locker (Prime Video/Hulu), One More Time (CBC), Late Bloomer (Crave), Don’t Even (Crave/APTN), and Dino Dex (Prime Video, Amazon Kids+, TVOkids, TFO, Knowledge Network). She also casts feature films – most recently Simulantstarring Simu Liu, Sam Worthington, and Jordana Brewster, and Relax, I’m From the Future with Rhys Darby and Gabrielle Graham – as well as musicals; she cast the 8-time Dora Award nominated knockout musical “Rock of Ages” which ran at Toronto’s esteemed Elgin Theatre in early 2023. Her team also casts many movies each year for networks including Hallmark, Lifetime, Tubi, and Discovery+. Past credits include ‘Kids in the Hall’ (Amazon), ‘Take Note’ (NBC Universal), ‘Hardy Boys’ (Seasons 2 and 3) (YTV/HULU), ‘Homeschooled’ (CBC), and an animation series called ‘Summer Memories’ (Family Channel). Previous credits include ‘SPIN’ (Disney+), ‘TallBoyz’ (Season 1 & 2) (CBC), ‘Odd Squad (5 years) (PBS & TVO), ‘Overlord and the Underwoods’ (Nickelodeon), ‘Lucas The Spider’ (Warner Brothers), ‘Locked Down’ (Season 1 & 2) (YouTube), ‘Ghostwriter’ (Season 1 & 2) (Apple +), ‘Endlings’ (2 seasons) (CBC/HULU), ‘Secret Society of Second Born Royals’ (Disney +), ‘Holly Hobbie’ (5 seasons) (Hulu/ American Greetings), ‘The CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival (5 years),’ ‘Detention Adventure’ (3 seasons) (CBC), ‘Riviera (Series, Toronto Casting) starring Julia Stiles, ‘Astronaut’ (Feature Film) starring Richard Dreyfuss and Colm Feore, ‘From The Vine Came’ starring Joe Pantoliano, Wendy Crewson, Marco Leonardi, ‘Milton’s Secret’ (Feature Film), starring Donald Sutherland, Raising Expectations (Series) starring Jason Priestly and Molly Ringwald, and ‘Degrassi: Next Class ‘(Series), ‘Clara’ (Feature film) had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, etc.