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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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Carmelina and Maria from Sesame Street offer themselves as auction items to raise funds for her local public school PS 163 on the Upper West Side. Opening act: Carmelina Vargas, MC who will perform: Mueve las caderas and .... Sonia Manzano - Maria from "Sesame Street" (http://www.aeispeakers.com/speakerbio.php?SpeakerID=655) Sonia Manzano has been a presence on Public Television since the 1970’s. Raised in the South Bronx, Sonia Manzano attended the High School of Performing Arts. A scholarship took her to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and in her junior year, she came to New York to star in the original production of the off-Broadway show, Godspell. Within a year Sonia Manzano was cast as "Maria" on Sesame Street. After ten years as an actress, Sonia Manzano began writing scripts for the series and has thirteen Emmy Awards as part of the Sesame Street writing staff. Sonia also wrote for the Peabody Award winning children’s series, Little Bill, for Nickelodeon and for a short time wrote a parenting column for the Sesame Workshop web site called "Talking Out Loud." Sonia Manzano returned to the New York stage starring in The Vagina Monologues and The Exonerated. Sonia Manzano has received awards from The Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington DC, and The Hispanic Heritage Foundation, and she received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Nortre Dame University in 2004. Closer to home, she was inducted into the Bronx