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Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is a multi-faceted performer and puppeteer with a wide variety of characters and talents.
Carrara-Rudolph's current television work spans a variety of acclaimed children's television programs, including "Sesame Street," on which she currently plays the newly introduced Abby Cadabby, and performing the spunky sprite Ginger on the Disney Channel’s new musical show “Johnny & The Sprites”. Leslie is also currently recording the character Nate, for PBS’s new animated series “Nate the Great” (based on the series of children's books). Leslie has also worked on a number of Henson Company productions and in the DVD series “Sesame Beginnings” for Sesame Workshop. Additionally, Carrara-Rudolph was a member of the PBS puppet tour that visited shelters in Louisiana and Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
She has also recently released a new family-friendly CD (available on CD Baby and linked through her website) called “Lolly & Friend’s Spunkinsass” featuring her favorite puppet, Lolly. It is the follow up to the cult favorite, “Jolly Lolly Holidays” released in 2004.
Carrara-Rudolph's stage credits include the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival with the Jim Henson Puppet Improv “Puppet Up”, as well as traveling to Australia with the group this year for two more comedy festivals. She has also performed in her home town of Walnut Creek, CA to two sold out stage performances for their recent Family Theater Festival.
Leslie has also has had success with her own one-woman cabaret-variety show, "Young at Heart” which she wrote and produced.
In her spare time, Leslie creates artwork and her own brand of magic and joy and is currently developing a star vehicle for her friend Lolly.
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