Lauren MacMullan

Lauren MacMullan

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

Lauren MacMullan is an American animation director. She grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs of Havertown, Lansdowne and Swarthmore, and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. She attended Harvard University, and was on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, where she was famous for directing the episode with guest stars Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, 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 the 2013 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

King of the Hill episodes

She had directed the following episodes:

The Simpsons episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

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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