BIO:

Angela Ward-Costello is the Director of CBN Animation, the world’s leader in inspirational animation with 120 programs in more than 200 countries and 60 languages.

She is a Virginia Wesleyan and Harvard Business School Alumni. She has won more than 40 National and International secular awards in the last 12 years as a Producer/Creator, Writer, Director and Composer. She has worked many celebrity and professional talent including Tim Conway and Max Lucado. Her personal passion for missions has resulted in work in India, Africa, Philippines, Russia and USA.

In 2008 she will be ordained as Chaplin by Chaplains International. To date she has been blessed with the opportunity to traveled around the world with her most crowing and rewarding achievement-the adoption of her son Nicholas from Astrakhan, Russia.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES:

2008 Aurora Award for Children's programming.

2008 Accolade Award for Animation

2007 CBC National Award for Children’s Programming
Presented in England by Baroness Caroline Cox.

Beyond The Manger
Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Original Music

2006 The Lions Den
Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Home Video
Best Original Music
Best Use of Animation

AXIEM Award (Excellence in Electronic Media) Best Children’s Television Program
Best Children’s Animated Program

Omni Award Best Computer Animated Program

2004 The Rebel

Telly Award Best Children’s Program

AXIEM Award (Excellence in Electronic Media) Best Children’s Television Program
Best Original Music

Omni Award Best Computer Animated Program
Best Animated Program

2003 The Battle
Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Home Video

AXIEM Award (Excellence in Electronic Media) Best Children’s Television Program
Best Children’s Animated Program

Omni Award Best Computer Animated Program

2002 “Courage”
Created special entitled “courage, helping kids deal with fear and grief” that was distributed throughout the school system and social services in NYC and nation wide. National Award for 9/11 outreach.

Telly Award Best Live Action Children’s Program
Best Original Music

“The Storm”
Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Home Video
Invited to enter the Daytime Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

2001 “The Witness”

Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Original Music

2000
“Storyteller Café”

Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Original Music

AXIEM Award (Excellence in Electronic Media) Best Children’s Television Program
Best Children’s Animated Program

Omni Award Best Computer Animated Program

Invited to enter the Daytime Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

“Easter Promise”
Telly Awards 20 Year Anniversary
Best Children’s Program
Best Original Music

1999 “ Easter Promise”
Telly Award Best Children’s Program
Best Home Video
Best use of Music
AXIEM Award (Excellence in Electronic Media)
Best Original Music
Best Children’s Animated Program
Omni Award Innovation award Best Computer Animated Program

1998 “Spunky”
Nominated for an Animation Oscar known as an “Annie Award”
Invited to enter the Daytime Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

1996 “Easter Promise”
Nominated for an Animation Oscar known as an “Annie Award”
Invited to enter the Daytime Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Command Performance Award “The End Of the Age” Editor
Command Performance Award Documentary Producer / Editor

Currently Harvard Alumni Association Class Correspondent.
Fulbright Association Board of Directors
World Affairs Council, member
New Covenant Church Women’s Ministry, Board Member
New Covenant Church, Contemporary service speaker

For more information visit: www.cbn.com