Megan Piphus Peace plays Gabrielle, a 6-year-old Black girl who first appeared in the series in 2017. Before Piphus Peace started playing Gabrielle, a child actress performed the voice of the character.
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"I've always felt that I can say more with a puppet than I can myself," said Piphus Peace, who for years worked as a real estate agent. As a high school senior in Cincinnati, she was known as the "Ventriloquist Valedictorian," and as a student at Vanderbilt University, she was called the "Vanderbilt Ventriloquist."
"We kept in contact, and she became a mentor for me," said Piphus Peace, who lives with her husband and two sons, ages 1 and 3, in Nashville. "She comes from a different kind of puppetry background than most of us other 'Sesame Street' Muppet performers," Vogel wrote in an email to The Washington Post. "Some of us went to college to learn puppetry, or acting schools, etc., but Megan is a self-trained ventriloquist - something none of us have done.""What sets Megan apart from a lot of us is her innate musical ability," he continued.
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