Monica Lauricella

 (born May 15, 1980) is an Italian puppeteer.

Biography
Monica, who had trained as a ballerina in her youth, began working on Strada Sesamo when she was 21 years old, and had been trained by. She became Eugenia Gragnaniello's understudy for Abla a year later in 2003, performing in the role whenever Eugenia was unavailable. Monica performed Abla for her reunion with No'man at the Disney Channel Arabic launch party in 2017.

She has also assisted Rainier Calzaghe with performing Ernie, and assisted with rod hands for Sesamo d'Infanzia and Dietro l'angolo.

Her non-Henson credits include performing the puppetry for Leona Lion in the Italian-shot footage for the Italian co-production of Between the Lions and assisting with the legendary TV puppet Uan in some recent appearances. When not puppeteering, she is a ballet teacher and a freelance ballet artist.