Education
She attended Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before going on to Cambridge School of Weston and studying fine arts at Brown University.
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Elanna Allen
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While she has worked in content for various audiences, her primary focus has been pre-school children"s television Born in Chicago, Illinois, Elanna was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. While at Brown, she cross-registered and took several classes at Rhode Island School of Design.
Foreign her senior project, she wrote, directed and produced the short film Low Down Underground, which included original music written by Prince Paul, and the voice talent of Pepa from Salt n" Pepa, and Treach of Naughty by Nature, and was funded by Nickelodeon.
After college, Allen worked at Music Television Animation as a character animator on the popular claymation show Celebrity Deathmatch. She subsequently animated on Nickelodeon"s Hey Arnold! and worked as a character designer on a variety of projects, including co-creating the Nickelodeon host character Piper O"Possum in 2004, and designing a series of station Idaho"s for Nickelodeon.
In 2006, Nickelodeon"s Nick Junior. group greenlit Bing Can Sing, a short film created and directed by Allen. Nick Junior. ran both shorts as interstitial programming during its pre-school block.
Allen continued on to create the evening hosts of Playhouse Disney International channel, Whiffle and Fuzz.
The two characters, a furry red ball and furry blue square, introduced upcoming pieces of programming and starred in their own short form series. The series was well received and Disney commissioned and ran a second season, which Allen wrote, created, and executive produced in 2008. In 2009, Allen moved to London, England.
There she signed on to Gaspard and Lisa, a television series based on French storybook characters, as assistant director
The series wrapped production in late 2010. The book, about a little girl who announces her intention to run away rather than go to bed, received highly favorable advance reviews from the trade.
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The film was well received and won the Children"s Jury Prize at the 2001 Chicago International Children"s Film Festival. The short was well received and won a prize at San Francisco Film Festival. Allen was represented by Curious Pictures to follow up with Pass the Pinha, featuring the same blue chick.
