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Barbara Cimity
Lecturer
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Digital Media
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Barb recently opened Lady Face Pictures; an LLC named after the mountain down the road from her. She opened it to give her some freedom as a producer and to support a couple of projects she is developing on her own; as well as an entity to offer her skills in animation production to friends and companies that she cares about, with special projects, consulting, budgets/schedules, production staff mentoring, and long-range strategies.

Formerly, she served as Head of Production for Six Point Harness, Inc, a 2D Animation house, here is Los Angeles. Producers of a wide array of 2D animated projects. Including the Oscar short “Hair Love,” and the HBO Comedy special “Tig Drawn,” a fully animated comedy special based on Tig Notaro’s stand-up work. The Netflix docuseries “How to Become a Mob Boss” and “How to Become a Cult Leader,” the Netflix’s series Waffles & Mochi, Produced by the Obama’s company, Higher Ground. 

Most recently, she completed work on the 2D reimagined animated series “Good Times” based on the 70’s sitcom, that will be out sometime in 2024 on Netflix. 

6PH’s work can also be seen in episodes 7 & 8 of this last season’s “The Boys” as well as about 90 minutes of animated content playing in Great Wolf Lodge’s Water Parks, all around North America.

Barb worked for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, as their Line producer on “Robot Chicken”, seasons 7,8,9, winning the Emmy in 2015-16 year, for Best Animated Short Program. She also produced the series‘ “SuperMansion”, and “Buddy Thunderstruck”, as well as many other stop-motion projects, while there.

Before her TV work, she had a 16-year run at DreamWorks Animation, touching almost all the feature films from “The Road To El Dorado” to “The Croods”. She was in production in multiple roles, directly on the movies for about a decade, and then joined studio management as a Production Executive.

Her start in animation was as Richard Williams’ Producer in his LA studios producing commercials.

Barb holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in business. She is a former board member and current member of Women in Animation (WIA) and The Television Academy. She is a native Californian, mother of 2 sons, and grandmother to 3 kids, ages 17, 8, and 2.5 yrs. She loves wine and Labradors.