Spencer Kayden

Spencer Kayden is a writer, comedian and actress from America. Born in Costa Mesa, California, and raised in Orange County, she studied drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and performed with a Chicago company before moving east in 1993 to open the New York run of that production. Her breakthrough came as Little Sally in the musical Urinetown, a part she played in the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival staging and again in the original Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of 2001, returning in 2003; a CurtainUp reviewer found her droll little girl outrageously good for laughs. Fox executives spotted her on stage and gave her a featured spot on MADtv, and she took over the voice of Mrs. Pepper on Blue's Clues after its first season. She also played the cook in the Chicago farce Don't Dress for Dinner from November 2008 to January 2009, reprising it on Broadway in 2012.