Peggy Southerland
Director of Animation
Ms. Southerland grew up in Baltimore. She has one daughter, Kristine Elizabeth, who lives and works in Texas. She attended Archbishop Keough High School and The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After graduation with a degree in Theatre, she went to work at WJZ-TV in Baltimore as the staff set designer. While there she designed Oprah Winfrey’s first News set and her first Talk Show set “People Are Talking”. In 1978 she migrated to New York and went to work as a Graphic Engineer for ABC. In 1984 she moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth as the Senior Graphics Editor, Dallas Post Production Center. In 1986 she opened her own graphics boutique (PHS Graphics, Inc). She took time off for the birth of her beautiful, smart and wonderful daughter – Kristine Elizabeth in 1989. In 1992 she moved back to Maryland and went to work as the Assistant Director for Special Projects at The University of Maryland Baltimore County in their Imaging Research Center. In 1995 she accepted an offer to join the Family Channel in Virginia Beach as Director of Animation. After the network changed hands and moved to LA, she elected to stay in Virginia and open a new animation company A.S. Imagined, LLC. In 2001 she elected to move back into the education arena and accepted a position as Director of Animation at Regent University.
Ms. Southerland has won 3 national EMMY awards (1982, 1988, 1991), a silver medal at the New York Film Festival (1987), and was honored to be named the Most Celebrated Alumnae for the first 25 years at UMBC (1991). In 2009 “Transposition” a student film that she Executive Produced was nominated for a Student Academy Award.
