Kara Vallow

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Kara Vallow
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Vallow in 2010
Education School of Visual Arts
Occupation Television producer
Years active1983–present
Website teensleuth.com/blog/
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Vallow in 2018

Kara Vallow is an American television producer and computer animator. [1] She has worked on four television series by Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions: Family Guy , American Dad! , The Cleveland Show , and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey . Furthermore, she served as a producer on the first season of Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo . [2] [3] She is the producer of all of Fox's primetime Sunday night lineup with the exception of The Simpsons . [4]

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Early life and education

In the 1970s, Vallow lived in Miquon, Pennsylvania. She was educated at The Miquon School (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania), Germantown Friends School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and School of Visual Arts (New York City). [5]

Career

Vallow worked at the New York City-based studio Broadcast Arts, best known for set design for Pee-wee's Playhouse . She eventually moved to Los Angeles to work at Hyperion Pictures as the supervisor of the production layout department on the feature Bebe's Kids , a multi-cultural animated feature film.[ citation needed ]

Over the next few years, Vallow moved to Murakami-Wolf as producer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series during its waning years. She worked at Hanna-Barbera, where she produced the series Johnny Bravo , and where she met Seth MacFarlane. [5]

Vallow then went on to Sony to produce its first primetime series, Dilbert , with Larry Charles, which ran on UPN for two seasons. She then took over as producer for season three of Family Guy before its brief cancellation. In 2004, Vallow created and produced the animation sequences in the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary In the Realms of the Unreal directed by Jessica Yu. She produced the MTV series 3-South , the pilot for Comedy Central’s Drawn Together and the presentations for Fox's American Dad! and an untitled Phil Hendrie pilot, before Fox made the decision to bring back Family Guy for an unprecedented 35 episode order. In order to accommodate producing both Family Guy and American Dad! simultaneously, she built a standalone animation studio for 20th Television and assembled a 200+ person team.

In 2014, she joined the science series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, developing and producing animated content that could both convey scientific concepts as well as engaged story-telling for the show, [6] [7] which won an Annie Award in 2014 for "Best Animated Special Production". [8] She was also nominated for an Annie Award that year for "Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production". [8] She organized the team of artists who produced the animation for Cosmos: Possible Worlds in 2020. [6]

She also produced the Fox presentations Two Dreadful Children and Bordertown . Nominated for seven Emmy Awards, [9] Vallow was at one time responsible for three half-hours of programming on Sunday nights: Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show. [6]

Vallow runs two blogs, Teen Sleuth [10] and the book blog, The Haunted Library. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Realm". Santa Barbara News-Press. 11 February 2005. p. 70. Retrieved 28 December 2025– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Armstrong, Josh (7 January 2014). "From "Family Guy" to "Cosmos": Producer Kara Vallow Talks Collaborations with Seth MacFarlane". Indiewire . Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Eichel, Molly (20 March 2014). "Animator finds 'Cosmos' & Philly just heavenly". Philadelphia Daily News. p. 9. Retrieved 28 December 2025– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  4. ↑ "Kara Vallow". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  5. 1 2 Sanderson, Kristin (1 June 2018). "From Miquon to Hollywood". The Miquon School. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 Sarto, Dan (2020-03-09). "Kara Vallow Tackles the Mysteries of Science in 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on 2025-12-30. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
  7. ↑ "Bending Time and Space". Animation Magazine . 2014-06-06. Archived from the original on 2025-12-30. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
  8. 1 2 "42nd Annual Annie Awards". annieawards.org. ASIFA-Hollywood . Retrieved December 30, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Kara Vallow". www.televisionacademy.com. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved December 30, 2025.
  10. ↑ "About the Author". teensleuth.com. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Teen Sleuth Haunted Library". teensleuth.com. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
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