{{short description|American television producer and computer animator}} {{Infobox person | name = Kara Vallow | image = Kara Vallow by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg | image_size = | caption = Vallow in 2010 | occupation = Television producer | birth_date = | birth_place = | education = School of Visual Arts | spouse = | years_active = 1983–present | website = {{URL|http://teensleuth.com/blog/}} }} thumb|Vallow in 2018 '''Kara Vallow''' is an American television producer and computer animator.<ref name="SBNewsPress2005">{{cite news |title=Realm |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-barbara-news-press-realm/187614778/ |access-date=28 December 2025 |work=Santa Barbara News-Press |via=Newspapers.com |date=11 February 2005 |pages=70}} {{open access}}</ref> 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''.<ref name="From Family Guy to Cosmos">{{cite web|last=Armstrong|first=Josh|title=From "Family Guy" to "Cosmos": Producer Kara Vallow Talks Collaborations with Seth MacFarlane|date=7 January 2014 |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/from-family-guy-to-cosmos-producer-kara-vallow-talks-collaborations-with-seth-macfarlane|publisher=Indiewire|accessdate=7 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="Eichel2014">{{cite news |last1=Eichel |first1=Molly |title=Animator finds 'Cosmos' & Philly just heavenly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-animator-finds/187613888/ |access-date=28 December 2025 |work=Philadelphia Daily News |via=Newspapers.com |date=20 March 2014 |pages=9}} {{open access}}</ref> She is the producer of all of Fox's primetime Sunday night lineup with the exception of ''The Simpsons''.<ref name="HuffPost">{{cite web |title=Kara Vallow |url=https://www.huffpost.com/author/kara-vallow |website=www.huffpost.com |access-date=28 December 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
==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).<ref name="Sanderson2018">{{cite web |last1=Sanderson |first1=Kristin |title=From Miquon to Hollywood |url=https://miquon.org/kara-vallow/ |website=The Miquon School |access-date=28 December 2025 |date=1 June 2018}}</ref>
==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|date=October 2015}}
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.<ref name="Sanderson2018" />
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,<ref name=Sarto2020>{{cite news |last=Sarto |first=Dan |date=2020-03-09 |title=Kara Vallow Tackles the Mysteries of Science in 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' |url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/kara-vallow-tackles-mysteries-science-cosmos-spacetime-odyssey |publisher=Animation World Network |accessdate=2025-12-30 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20251230083110/https://www.awn.com/animationworld/kara-vallow-tackles-mysteries-science-cosmos-spacetime-odyssey |archivedate=2025-12-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=2014-06-06 |title=Bending Time and Space |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2014/06/bending-time-and-space/ |magazine=Animation Magazine |accessdate=2025-12-30 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20251230083236/https://www.animationmagazine.net/2014/06/bending-time-and-space/ |archivedate=2025-12-30 }}</ref> which won an Annie Award in 2014 for "Best Animated Special Production".<ref name=Annie42nd>{{cite web |url=https://annieawards.org/legacy/42nd-annie-awards |title=42nd Annual Annie Awards |website=annieawards.org |publisher=ASIFA-Hollywood |access-date=December 30, 2025 }}</ref> She was also nominated for an Annie Award that year for "Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production".<ref name=Annie42nd/> She organized the team of artists who produced the animation for Cosmos: Possible Worlds in 2020.<ref name=Sarto2020/>
She also produced the Fox presentations ''Two Dreadful Children'' and ''Bordertown''. Nominated for seven Emmy Awards,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/kara-vallow |title=Kara Vallow |website=www.televisionacademy.com |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=December 30, 2025 }}</ref> Vallow was at one time responsible for three half-hours of programming on Sunday nights: ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'', and ''The Cleveland Show''.<ref name=Sarto2020/>
Vallow runs two blogs, Teen Sleuth<ref name="teensleuthAbout">{{cite web |title=About the Author |url=http://teensleuth.com/blog/?page_id=448 |website=teensleuth.com |access-date=4 October 2015}}</ref> and the book blog, The Haunted Library.<ref name="teensleuthHaunted">{{cite web |title=Teen Sleuth Haunted Library |url=http://teensleuth.com/hauntedlibrary/ |website=teensleuth.com |access-date=4 October 2015}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Kara Vallow}} * {{official website|http://teensleuth.com/blog/}} * {{IMDb name|0885214}} * [https://www.newspapers.com/article/usa-today-cosmos-possible-worlds-inter/187614368/ Cosmos, Possible Worlds], interview with Kara Vallow, by Sasha Sagan, ''USA Today'', February 24, 2020, p. 46, via Newspapers.com {{open access}}
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