Dan Povenmire

Emmy Award®-winning animation veteran Dan Povenmire is co-creator and executive producer of the mega-hit and beloved animated series “Phineas and Ferb” on Disney Channel and Disney+, and he is the voice of the ridiculously evil Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

Povenmire is renowned for co-creating and executive-producing Disney’s five-time Emmy Award-winning series “Phineas and Ferb,” for which he earned 10 nominations in four different categories, ranging from songwriting to voice-over performance, and won for Outstanding Writing in Animation in 2010. He also created and executive-produced Disney Channel’s original animated superhero series “Hamster & Gretel.”

Along with his “Phineas and Ferb” co-creator, Swampy Marsh, Povenmire also co-created and executive-produced Disney’s “Milo Murphy’s Law,” an animated series that followed 13-year-old Milo Murphy, the great-great-great-great grandson of the Murphy’s Law namesake.

With over 25 years of experience in directing, storyboarding and writing, Povenmire has worked on multiple critically acclaimed animated series, including “Family Guy,” “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “The Simpsons,” “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Hey Arnold!”

Povenmire was born in California and raised in Mobile, Alabama. He studied cinema at the University of Southern California and has two children.