Pam Arciero

Pamela Arciero (born May 8, 1954) is a puppeteer and voice-over artist. She has performed for Eureeka's Castle, Between the Lions, and Sesame Street, playing Quagmire in the first and Oscar the Grouch's girlfriend Grundgetta in the third. In addition to performance work, she worked as a director on the Nickelodeon preschool series Oobi, which featured both writers and performers of Sesame Street.

On Jack’s Big Music Show, she was the performer of the mother bongo bird, as well as puppeteering a member of the Schwartzman Quartet, the green bug, Arthur (in season 2; along with Cheryl Blaylock), and various squirrels. Additionally, she and Cheryl Blaylock were the assistant puppet captains (assisting Kathryn Mullen).

Career
Arciero earned her Master's in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut.

Arciero took over the role of Oscar the Grouch's girlfriend, Grundgetta for Sesame Street from Brian Muehl, performing her in The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and Sesame Street: A Is for Asthma and continues to perform her to this day.

She has performed characters for many Nickelodeon programs, including Oobi, Allegra's Window, and Eureeka's Castle. She also performed for Between the Lions on PBS and The Great Space Coaster.

She performed in Little Shop of Horrors at the Orpheum Theater and served as director for several live shows at Sesame Place and El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles.

Arciero currently serves as Artistic Director for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Puppetry Conference since 2002 and continues to participate in puppetry workshops and other events across the country.

She appears as herself in the documentaries Henson's Place and The World of Jim Henson, as well as herself and Grundgetta at Jim Henson's memorial service.