Teresa's no stranger to commercial work, having over 50 spots to her credit. She's rubbed shoulders with odd casts of brand characters ranging from dancing raisins and talking potatoes to coal stallions. She's worked with agencies that include J. Walter Thompson, Grey London Ltd., Young & Rubicam, Chiat Day, DDB Needham, Foot, Cone & Belding, and for clients such as Kellogg's, Clorox, Merck, Beecham, Nissan, Chilis Restaurants, Tropicana, and Elizabeth Arden.

Her prime-time television credits include lead animator and character design work for three CBS prime time specials. For A Claymation Christmas Celebration, she brought skating walruses to life. For Meet the Raisins, she showed us that penguins really can dance. And for Claymation Comedy of Horrors, she gave us a glimpse of life on the other side through the drunken skeleton, Famine.

Teresa designed and developed Sesame Street's "Cecille the Ball" series, which she created for the Children's Television Workshop with Barry Bruce, as well as directed a special 4-minute holiday segment for ABC's Home Improvement sitcom.

Originally from upstate New York, Teresa attended the Rochester Institute of Technology, receiving honors degrees in graphic design and fine arts.

While working as a graphic designer in the multi-image field, The Owl and the Pussycat, her second stop-motion film, gained momentum over a successful festival run. It aired on HBO for two years as an intermission short, and garnered her an invitation to work in NYC for Broadcast Arts.

In 1987 Teresa moved from NY to Portland OR to join Vinton Studios. She stayed more than fourteen years, becoming one of Vinton's senior creatives, as well as one of its principal mentors.

In 1991 she was personally awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for her work on "Claymation Comedy of Horrors."

In 1999 Teresa traveled to Britain to animate on the feature Chicken Run, under the direction of Peter Lord and Nick Park. She rejoined Aardman Features in 2004 as a Key Animator for the Wallace & Gromit feature, Curse of the Wererabbit.

In the interim she joined the Chiodo Bros. team, to work on the Playhouse Disney's Clay Play series, and continued with the Chiodo Bros. as Lead Animator on the 2003 feature Elf for New Line Cinema, lending a measure of gracious charm to Leon the Snowman.