Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is a multi-faceted performer and twice Emmy nominated puppeteer (for her work as fairy in training Abby Cadabby on "Sesame Street"). Carrara-Ruldoph's television work spans a variety of acclaimed children's television programs including the afore mentioned "Sesame Street", Disney's "Johnny & The Sprites" (Ginger Sprite), Nickelodeon's "Wubulous World of Dr. Seuss" (2nd season Morton, Little Cat, etc), The Learning Channel's "Animal Jam" (Edi), and she is currently the voice of Peg Puppy on Nickelodeon's hit cartoon series "Tough Puppy".  Her voice can also be heard on "The Electric Company" as all the characters in the Haunted House cartoon sketches (Wolfman, Mummy, Bat and Aunt Hildegard.) She does background walla for "The Simpsons", and is the official voice match for Disney's character Izma from "The Emperor's New Groove".

Leslie is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA in "Child Development Through The Arts", and got her start start as a puppeteer on ABC's "Muppet's Tonight" (Spamela Hamderson). She has been in several outreach videos for The Children's Television Workshop including Prairie Dawn's Mom in "Sesame Beginnings" and most recently played the character of Jesse in "When Families Grieve" and Rosita's Mom in "Change", a outreach program helping military families. Movie credits include Female Vampire in "Forgetting Sarah Marshal", background in "The New Muppet Movie" and "Men In Black II".

Some of Carrara-Rudolph's stage credits include "Sweeney Todd" (Beggar woman), "Little Shop of Horrors" (Audrey), "Parallel Lives", and "The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe".  As a comedian, Leslie's done stand up at Caroline's Comedy Club in New York and performed with the Henson puppet improv group (Puppet Up) at The Aspen Comedy Festival, The Australian Comedy Festival, and off-Broadway in "Stuffed & Unstrung" at the Union Square Theater. She designed, created and starred in an original, live, interactive musical stage show for The Walt Disney Company called "The Wahoo Wagon" which was performed at Hollywood's famous El Capitan Theatre. Carrara-Rudolph is currently touring with her new show "Wake Up Your Weird", and interactive musical short story, designed to fire up the imaginations of the young, and the young at heart. The show  received the 2009 Jim Henson Grant and an UNIMA Citation of Excellence (under the name "Entertaining A Thought"). She has been a guest artist twice at the Ojai Playwright Conference, and teaches character development at the O'Neil Puppetry Conference. She will be the 2011 guest artist at the O'Neil Conference.

In her spare time, Carrara-Rudolph illustrates children's books, teaches workshops and creates her own brand of magic and joy. You can find out more about Leslie's show at www.wakeupyourweird.com