• Source: Jennifer Barnhart

Jennifer Barnhart (born March 11, 1972) is an American actress and puppeteer, with a portfolio of television and theatre performances.




Early life


Barnhart was born and grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting with a concentration in puppetry.




Career






= Puppetry career

=
In 1996, Barnhart began her puppeteer career performing on Once Upon a Tree performing Mara the Beaver and Mrs. Peeper the Owl. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 and is a featured performer in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, in which she also appeared Off-Broadway. She was a regular puppeteer on the Nickelodeon series Oobi, playing Mrs. Johnson and various incidental characters. She also stars as Cleo on PBS's literacy education series, Between the Lions, and performed the puppetry for Kanga and Owl on Disney Channel's The Book of Pooh. She is a Sesame Street Muppet performer who took over the roles of Mama Bear in 2001 and Gladys the Cow in 2002.
Barnhart 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.
As of season 46 of Sesame Street, she performs the role of Zoe, following the retirement of Fran Brill in 2014.




= Acting career

=
She appeared on screen as a puppeteer in the "Web" episode of Law & Order: SVU in May 2006. In regional theatre, she played the angel in Angels in America (Gallery Players), Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Cassie in Rumors (Connecticut Repertory Theatre). In 2011 she appeared as police officer Randy Osteen in Tracy Letts's new play "Superior Donuts" at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia. In 2010, she portrayed Chicago Police Department detective Lorna Diamond in the Law & Order: SVU episode, "Behave".




TV credits


Helpsters, 2019-present
Julie's Greenroom, 2017-2019
The Chica Show, 2012-2014
Law & Order: SVU, 2010
Lomax, the Hound of Music, 2008
Johnny and the Sprites, 2007
Law & Order: SVU, 2006
Exposing the Order of the Serpentine, 2006
Sesame Street, 2001–present
Smart Cookies, 2016
Oobi, 2000–2005
The Book of Pooh, 2001
Between the Lions, 2000-2010
Bear in the Big Blue House, 1997–1998
Once Upon a Tree, 1996




References






External links


Jennifer Barnhart at IMDb
Jennifer Barnhart at the Internet Broadway Database
Interview with Jennifer Barnhart at Playbill.com

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bumi
• Bulan
• Helios
• Martha Griffiths
• Gilda Radner
• Aretha Franklin
• Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
• Matilda Dodge Wilson
• Daftar orang gay, lesbian, atau biseksual/Ba-Bh
• Jennifer Barnhart
• Avenue Q
• Jennifer (given name)
• Barnhart
• List of Sesame Street Muppets
• Karsen Barnhart
• Richard Hunt (puppeteer)
• Julie's Greenroom
• Between the Lions
• Behave (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)