Jo Allen

Jo Allen is Commissioning Editor for Animation 7+ at BBC Children’s & Education. Her role is to assess submissions, develop projects and work as the BBC’s Executive Producer on commissions for the channel.

Her  animation career began  over 30 years ago at Aardman Animations where she produced commercials, series and short films, including the Bafta winning ‘The Pearce Sisters’ and Academy award nominated ‘Wat’s Pig’,  before joining the BBC  as Producer of the Bafta nominated pre-school series ‘Go Jetters’.  Since moving into BBC commissioning, she has been Executive Producer for the BBC on series including ‘Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed’,  ‘Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese’,  Super Happy Magic Forest’ and the six half hour animated specials ’Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures’.