Derek Lux

Derek Lux is an award-winning puppeteer, designer, and speaker whose work spans stage, screen, and international entertainment. He served as Senior Advisor of Puppetry for Cirque du Soleil’s Resident Show Division and Affiliate Shows, including Paw Patrol Live! and Baby Shark Live!. Derek has designed and built puppets for films, television, music videos, theatrical productions, and Las Vegas resident shows, earning a Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Honor Award for his work on Shrek The Musical. He was the creator and director of the Las Vegas resident production Wonderland which ran for 18 months, and has taught professional puppet building for Puppet School in Los Angeles. 

Through his production company, DLUX Puppets, he tours the country performing musical, multimedia stage adaptations with life-size puppetry for family audiences. In addition to his professional career, Derek volunteers with Win-Win Charities, Gigi’s Playhouse and Positively Arts, sharing his craft to inspire and uplift communities 

What is The Resonance Report?

Real People. Real Journeys. Bigger Stages.

Nobody starts with the keynote, the packed room, the polished website, or the impressive bio. They start with absolutely zero.

The Resonance Report, hosted by Millian Quinteros, goes behind the finished product to find out how professional speakers actually built their careers. Not just where they are now, but where they started, what happened in between, what worked, what failed, what surprised them, and what they wish they had known when nobody knew their name.

Each episode is a candid conversation with speakers at different stages of the profession. We talk about the first opportunities, awkward beginnings, career pivots, breakthrough moments, bad decisions, unexpected wins, finding an audience, developing a message, getting booked, getting paid, and the long road between “I think I want to do this” and “This is what I do.”

There are no overnight-success stories here. We want the part that usually gets edited out of the bio.

Every episode ends by wiping the slate clean, at absolutely zero. Imagine you are starting today with absolutely zero: no speaking gigs, no network, no referrals, no impressive client list, no connections, and nobody waiting to discover you. What would you do first?

Our guests get specific. They share the advice, strategies, mistakes, experiences, and hard-earned lessons they would give someone standing exactly where they once stood.

For aspiring speakers, The Resonance Report is a look at the road ahead from people who have actually traveled it.
For established speakers, it is a chance to hear how other professionals built their careers, compare notes, steal a few good ideas, and remember just how strange the road to the stage can be. Because every speaker you know started as a speaker nobody knew.

The Resonance Report with Millian Quinteros, a ListenVegas Podcast Network production.