Jennifer Barnhart is lucky enough to have made a living (heaven knows how) as a puppeteer and occasional human performer for fifteen years. She was a principal puppeteer on PBS's Between the Lions as mother lioness Cleo, as well as having been featured on such children's television shows as Sesame Street, Johnny and the Sprites, Bear in the Big Blue House, Oobi, and The Book of Pooh. Jennifer was also an original cast member of Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q (winning an Outer Critics Circle Award, along with the other members of the ensemble), and she remained with it for the show's entire six-year run on Broadway (and she occasionally swings back into the show in its current Off-Broadway home at New World Stages, to reprise the role she created). As a human, Jennifer has been seen on Law & Order: SVU (playing a puppeteer in one episode), and she has worked regionally at The Arden Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, and at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, where she played Lady Macbeth, as well as Veronica in God of Carnage, Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Stephanie Crawford in To Kill a Mockingbird, and where she is currently playing Mrs. Cratchit in "A Christmas Carol" Jennifer came through the UCONN Puppet Program, and was dubbed one of the University's 40 Under 40 Outstanding Alumni. She holds a BFA in Acting with a Concentration in Puppet Arts.