Diana Uhlman

Diana Skye Uhlman (b. December 14th, 1980 in San Angelo, Texas) is an American writer, director, actress, creator and video game developer, being known for the 2001–2007 Disney Channel series, The Face Paint World Life, the 2008-2013 CW4Kids/Toonzai/Vortexx series, Kodiak: The Dog Timestopper and the upcoming Onward: The Chronicles of Ian and Barley for Disney Channel in 2021. Since 2007, she is the founder of her own company named Rhythmic Uhlman Production.

Currently, she is in charge of the Bailey the Face Paint Hero series, replacing Lynne Naylor.

Early Life
Diana was born in [hospital in San Angelo] on December 14th, 1980.

The Face Paint World Life
Planning stages for the series first started in 1995, when Disney was offered to do a Face Paint series. In 1999, during the planning stages and after joining Disney, Diana Uhlman decided to show Disney her The Boy and The Face Paint college short film she made last year. Impressed with the short, Disney decided to turn the particular short film into a beloved television series that would go on to be named The Face Paint World Life.

Kodiak: The Dog Timestopper
In 2004, while working on The Face Paint World Life, 4Kids were impressed with TFPWL that they decided to contact Diana when she gets done with the show, she could join 4Kids to produce a show. (w.i.p)

Shows

 * Velocity: The Dark Human Slayer (Nickelodeon/MTV, 1999-2003; 2018) - writer (four episodes) and storyboard artists.
 * The Face Paint World Life (Disney Channel, 2001-2007) - creator, director, producer, storyboard artist and voice actress (voiced: Shiny, TBD)
 * The Face Paint'nimal Gang (Cartoon Network, 2004-2007) - director, writer, storyboard artist and voice actress (voiced: TBD)
 * Phineas and Ferb (Disney Channel, 2007-2015) - writer and storyboard artist.
 * Kodiak: The Dog Timestopper (CW4Kids/Toonzai/Vortexx, 2008-2013) - creator, TBD
 * Sajoedri, USA (Netflix/USA, 2017-present) - writer.
 * The Cosmic Adventures of Stella (Cartoon Network, 2019-present) - writer, director (some episodes) and storyboard artist.
 * Fluke (Cartoon Network/WB Kids, 2020-present) - writer
 * Video People (MTV, 2020-present) - writer.
 * Onward: The Chronicles of Ian and Barley (Disney Channel, 2021-present) - creator, TBD.

Movies

 * Onward (2020) - storyboard artist and listed on special thanks.
 * The Face Paint'nimal Gang Forever (HBO Max, 2020) - writer and storyboard artist.
 * The Fish Out of Water (2020) - director, executive producer, storyboard artist, writer and listed on special thanks.
 * The Face Paint World Life: The Face Paint Tribes (Disney+, 2021) - producer, executive producer, storyboard artist, writer and voice actress.

Video games

 * The Face Paint World Life: Where's Matthew and Luna? (2003) - executive producer and special thanks.
 * The Face Paint World Life: A Treasure Adventure (2003) - executive producer, story and special thanks.
 * Bailey the Face Paint Hero series (2020-present) - executive producer and director (replacing Lynne Naylor)
 * The Face Paint World Life: A Treasure Adventure - Repainted (2021) - TBD.
 * [giving her a Moon Studios game series]

Others

 * The Boy and The Face Paint (1998) - animation short project for college (later on to become a pilot for The Face Paint World Life.
 * [new mascot look, ideas?]

Cancelled projects

 * In 2013, a 5 minute cancelled footage of Diana Uhlman's Mario series was released on YouTube. During an interview, Uhlman originally wanted to conceive the series as a Netflix original, and the name for the show was to be named The Mushroom Kingdom Tales of Mario and was to start in 2015, but was cancelled afterwards.

Personal Life
Diane is currently engaged to the Ferryman creator Elisha Lake-Quinn since May 25th, 2020 (slated to be married on August 16th, 2020) and were dating since 2014. and living in Burbank, California, since she moved there in 2001. She went to San Francisco, California to attend a college named Academy of Art University until end of 1998. She has an older brother named Oscar Uhlman.

Trivia

 * She is close friends with her girlfriend Elisha Lake-Quinn, Diane Schmidt, Genndy Tartakovsky, Bryan Andrews, Rob Renzetti, Chase Eilliott, Chris Reccardi, Darnell Freeman and Lynne Naylor, TBD.
 * She is regarded as one of the best animators of all time, alongside with Chase Eilliott, Genndy Tartakovsky, Bryan Andrews, Chris Reccardi and Lynne Naylor, Darnell Freeman, TBD.
 * She is a lesbian, being part of some LGBTQ+ clubs.
 * Diana's favorite foods include salads, pizza, barbeque, tacos, spaghetti and meatballs, porkchops, grilled steaks and TBD
 * However, her least favorite include olives, anything fish (except for shrimp and Captain D's fish), mushrooms, squash, TBD
 * Diana's favorite drinks include Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, chocolate milk, water, tea, TBD.