Noreen Isabel Young, CM (born September 11, 1952) is a Canadian producer and puppeteer, and is still actively involved in puppeteering through her corporation Noreen Young Productions.
She was the creator of Under the Umbrella Tree, a popular CBC Television children's series that ran from 1986-1993, and was also the puppeteer for a character on Sesame Park, the Canadian version of Sesame Street.
Young featured in the second Care Bears television special, 1984's The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine.
She is also known for her caricature puppets of public figures such as former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson, CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge and hockey commentator Don Cherry, and of prominent personalities from her hometown of Almonte, Ontario. She currently serves as artistic director of the Puppets Up international puppet festival, held annually in Almonte.
She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005.
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“The young ... look into visages dull-eyed, long-toothed, wattle-necked, and chop-fallen, something they have never been and which they cannot imagine ever being.... If it occurs to a young person, looking at us, that this is the direction in which he himself travels, how can he forgive, let alone bear the sight of, us, who constantly bring him the bad news of our own faces, bitter signposts pointing to his own destination?”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)