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Stephanie D'Abruzzo (b.7th December 1971)[1] is an American actress and puppeteer. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates a puppet or marionette, either by the use of strings, wires or their hands, for a stage production or film. ...
Broadway She is best known for originating the roles of both Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in the Broadway musical, Avenue Q, for which she received a nomination for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (which she lost to Idina Menzel for her performance in Wicked). She also received a Drama Desk nomination, the Theatre World Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Special Ensemble Award. Her other stage credits include Skitch Henderson's New Faces of 2004 at Carnegie Hall, Carnival (for City Center Encores!), Encores! 10th Anniversary Bash, I Love You Because... (off-Broadway), If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (TheaterworksUSA) and Chess (for the Actors' Fund). Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...
Avenue Q is a Broadway musical, which was originally conceived by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is awarded to the actress who was voted as the best actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. ...
Idina Menzel (born Idina Kim Mentzel on May 30, 1971 in New York City) is a Jewish American actress, singer and songwriter who is best known for her Tony Award-winning performance in Wicked and her Tony-nominated performance in Rent. ...
Wicked is a musical that opened on Broadway at the George Gershwin Theatre on October 30, 2003. ...
Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ...
The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ...
Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 7th Avenue, occupying the east stretch of 7th Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ...
New York City Centers Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert has been performing since 1994. ...
Television On television, Stephanie has used her puppetry skills as various Muppets in Sesame Street, and has done puppeteering and voice work in Oobi, Sheep in the Big City, The Book of Pooh, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. She has also been featured in various commercials and promos. She currently has been added to the large celebrity cast and is one of the only two Broadway actors on VH1's I Love the... series (along with Stephen Lynch from the acclaimed musical The Wedding Singer). John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ...
Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...
Oobi (pronounced OO-bee) is an American childrens television series. ...
Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series which ran on Cartoon Network for two seasons, from November 2000 to April 2002. ...
The Book of Pooh is a puppetry show aimed at preschoolers used to air on the Disney Channel. ...
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss was a live-action/puppet television series based on characters created by Dr. Seuss, produced by Jim Henson Television, which aired for one season (1996–1997) on Nickelodeon. ...
Stephen Lynch Stephen Lynch (born July 28, 1971), is an American musician, Tony Award nominated actor and a comedian famous for comic lyrics. ...
The Wedding Singer is a 1998 romantic comedy film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci that stars Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a wedding singer, and Drew Barrymore as Julia Sullivan, the object of his affections. ...
On Sesame Street, she got to sing with R.E.M. in a new version of their song Shiny Happy People called Furry Happy Monsters. R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in early 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and vocalist Michael Stipe. ...
Shiny Happy People is a song by the band R.E.M. It appeared on their 1991 album Out of Time and was released as a single in the same year. ...
On Scrubs, Stephanie was a guest star on an episode written by the Avenue Q team. She sang on the song Everything Comes Down To Poo with J.D. and Turk. This episode airs January 18th, 2007.
Stephanie's production of a puppet television show called "Freeform" was directed by Elizabeth Kirkscey and won the National College Emmy award for comedy.
Personal Stephanie grew up near Pittsburgh before graduating from the Radio/Television/Film program at Northwestern University in 1993. At Northwestern, she lived in the Communications Residential College (CRC); Stephanie's husband, Craig Shemin, was also an alumnus of this dorm. She could often be caught watching (and, as it turns out, studying) Sesame Street there during the day. She also had a large collection of Muppet recordings; she auctioned off a mix-tape thereof for dorm fundraisers. Her husband Craig Shemin had lived in the same dormitory, though he graduated before Stephanie began her college studies. It has been suggested that Freshman urban program be merged into this article or section. ...
The Communications Residential College (CRC) is a residential college at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. ...
At Northwestern, Stephanie's other standout roles included Mildred in the short film "The Ballad of Hank and Mildred" and herself in "The Glance." While in college, she also performed with a campus improvisational comedy troupe.
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