Audrey Diehl has joined the creative team at Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) and has been named Vice President, Series. The announcement was made today by Sam Register, President, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series. Reporting to Register, Diehl will develop new animated programming for the Studio and will also oversee select current shows for the family audience.
In this role, Diehl will have wide-ranging oversight of creative and production matters for animated content, from initial outline to finished episode. She will be charged with finding original material as well as identifying properties from the Warner Bros. collection to develop for animated series aimed at families. She will collaborate with existing creative talent already working at the Studio and will also spearhead the search for new writers, producers and artists for future development. Diehl will also serve as programming executive for select current WBA series.
Sam Register said: “Audrey has a very impressive track record of developing and producing highly successful, high quality series throughout her career, and we are very happy to welcome her to our team. This is an extremely exciting time to be working at WBA, with more than a dozen current series in production or on the air, and more to come. We look forward to Audrey contributing right away to our continued growth.”
Diehl comes to the Studio after more than 14 years at Nickelodeon. Since October 2013, Diehl served as Vice President, Animation Development, where she managed the network’s slate of development projects in a variety of genres — comedy, action, adventure — for the Kids’ 6–11 audience. In this capacity, she headed the development team and oversaw pre-production and production of a large slate of animated pilots, including the upcoming series Pinky Malinky. She joined Nickelodeon in 2003 and held a series of progressively responsible positions in both Current Series and Development. During her tenure at Nickelodeon, Diehl developed a number of series, including Sanjay & Craig, Harvey Beaks and Pig Goat Banana Cricket, and worked as creative executive on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Fanboy & Chum Chum and The Penguins of Madagascar, among others.
Before working in television, Diehl was an entertainment journalist, serving as Associate Editor at Teen Magazine’s TeenMag.com, after writing for SOMA Magazine. She graduated from Stanford University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an interdisciplinary emphasis in film.
