Jennifer Barnhart
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Jennifer Barnhart (from Connecticut) is a puppeteer, American actress and voice-over talent, with a portfolio of television and theatre performances.
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[edit] Biography
Barnhart graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in acting with a concentration in puppetry.
[edit] Puppetry career
Jennifer Barnhart made her Broadway debut in 2003 and is a featured performer in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q. She also stars as Cleo on PBS's literacy education series, Between the Lions, and performed the puppetry for Kanga on Disney Channel's The Book of Pooh. Jennifer Barnhart is a Sesame Street Muppet performer who took over the roles of Mama Bear in 2001 and Gladys the Cow in 2002.
Barnhart has also worked as a puppeteer in Johnny and the Sprites, a Disney Channel children's show created by her Avenue Q co-star John Tartaglia.
[edit] Acting career
She appeared on screen as a puppeteer in Law & Order: SVU in May 2006.
[edit] Credits
- Johnny and the Sprites, 2007
- Law & Order: SVU, 2006
- Exposing the Order of the Serpentine, 2006
- Sesame Street, 2001-
- Oobi, 2003
- The Book of Pooh, 2001
- Between the Lions, 2000
- Bear in the Big Blue House, 1997
