Early Life and Career
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is a multifaceted entertainer and artist. She is best known for performing the fairy "Abby Cadabby" on the PBS Kids show "Sesame Street" for which she was nominated for a 2009 Emmy Award for best performer in a children's series. She is also known for her puppeteer role as Ginger on Playhouse Disney's "Johnny and the Sprites". She most recently performed the puppet Jesse for Sesame Street's military outreach project "Touch, Listen and Connect." This starred Katie Couric. Leslie plays various characters on Sesame Street throughout the season. She got her start on ABC's "Muppets Tonight" as "Spamela Hamderson" Other puppeteering credits include Edi the Zebra on the Learning Channel's "Animal Jam" and the Evil blonde Vampire puppet in the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall". Leslie is one of the founding members for the Henson Improv group "Puppet up" later to be called,"Stuffed and Unstrung". She was part of the improv cast for its debut at the Aspen Comedy Festival. She toured with them to the Australian comedy festival and was a cast member for the Off Broadway show at the Union Square Theater. She also played the main role of Blue, the female blue puppy in Nick Jr.'s Blue's Room. Leslie has written and produced several successful one woman shows. Her latest musical "Entertaining a Thought", which was developed at the 2009 Ojai Play write Conference, recently received a Jim Henson Foundation Grant and a 2009-2010 UNIMA "Citation of Excellence in the Art Of Puppetry". She just finished a run of her newest interactive show "Wake Up Your Weird" at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. The show she created for the Disney company "The Wahoo Wagon" ran for six months at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood and it featured all of her original characters.
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