Background
Barnhart was born and grew up in Hamden, Connecticut.
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Jennifer Barnhart
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Education
She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting with a concentration in puppetry.
Career
She is one of the very rarely seen left-handed puppeteers. Puppetry career She also stars as Cleo on Public Broadcasting Service"s literacy education series, Between the Lions, and performed the puppetry for Kanga and Owl on Disney Channel"s The Book of Pooh. Barnhart 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.
O Barnhart voiced Eric"s girlfriend, Olivia Spieker in the Noggin and Nick Junior. television series Fairfax. Starting on Season 46 of Sesame Street, she will be performing Zoe, following the retirement of Fran Brill in 2014.
Acting career She appeared on screen as a puppeteer on Law & Order: SVU in May 2006, episode "Web". In regional theatre, she played the angel in Angels in America (Gallery Players), and Olivia in Twelfth Night and Cassie in Rumors (Connecticut Repertory Theatre).
In 2011 she appeared as the police officer Randy Osteen in Tracy Letts"s new play "Superior Donuts" at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia.
In 2010, she portrayed a Chicago Police Department Detective, Lorna Diamond, in the Law & Order: SVU episode, "Behave".
