Biography
Ritamarie Peruggi, also credited as Rita Peruggi, is a television producer. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has worked extensively with The Jim Henson Company, serving as Executive Vice President of Production and Worldwide Television. Her early credits include production assistant and associate producer roles on projects such as The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) and The Christmas Toy (1986).
Peruggi has produced numerous Henson-related series and specials, including Dinosaurs, Bear in the Big Blue House, Kermit's Swamp Years (2002) and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019). She also produced all four seasons of Yo Gabba Gabba!, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (2022) and episodes of Splash and Bubbles, which she directed. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
