Lauren MacMullan

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Lauren MacMullan

Nationality American
Occupation Animation director
Notable work(s) King of the Hill
Mission Hill
The Simpsons
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Get a Horse!

Lauren MacMullan is an animation director. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons. She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show.

MacMullan was a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie, and in 2009 she was a member of the Pixar team working on the animated film Newt[1] prior to its cancellation. She is currently at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where she worked on Wreck-It Ralph[2] and directed in 2013 an animated short film Get a Horse!, featuring Mickey Mouse.[3] With Get a Horse!, she became the first woman to solely direct a Disney animated film (short-length or feature-length).

Filmography

The Critic episodes

She has directed the following episodes

  • "A Little Deb Will Do You"
  • "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera"
  • "Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice"
  • "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show"

King of the Hill episodes

She had directed the following episodes:

  • "Three Days of the Kahndo"
  • "Death of a Propane Salesman"

The Simpsons episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

  • "The Southern Air Temple"
  • "The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)"
  • "The Storm"
  • "The Deserter"
  • "Siege of the North, Part 1"
  • "The Cave of Two Lovers"
  • "Avatar Day"
  • "Zuko Alone"
  • "The Desert"
  • "City of Walls and Secrets"
  • "Lake Laogai"

Short films

References

  1. ↑ MacMullan, Lauren (2009). The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "Bye Bye Nerdie" (DVD). 20th Century Fox. 
  2. ↑ Sciretta, Peter (May 12, 2010). "Pixar’s Newt Officially Canceled". /Film. Retrieved May 10, 2010. 
  3. ↑ Sarto, Dan (June 17, 2013). "Get A Horse - A New Mickey Mouse Short 85 Years in the Making". Animated World Network. Retrieved June 22, 2013. 

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