Rebecca Sugar

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Other

Birthday 1987-07-09 (37 years old)

Place of Birth Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Rebecca Sugar

Biography

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987), is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter. She is known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network. Sugar was formerly a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time, until 2013. Her work on the two series has earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her work on Steven Universe, Sugar was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Short-format Animation for the episodes "Lion 3: Straight to Video" in 2015, "The Answer" in 2016, "Mr. Greg" in 2017 and "Jungle Moon" in 2018. In 2017, Steven Universe was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards, the goal of the awards is to "[recognize] the most inclusive and accurately portrayed representations of the LGBTQ community in film, television, and other platforms" In July 2016, Sugar said at a San Diego Comic-Con panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman. In a July 2018 interview on NPR, Sugar said that she created the series's Gems as "non-binary women" in order to express herself, as a non-binary woman, through them.

Known For

Director

Writer

2013
Steven Universe

as Writer

2013
Steven Universe

as Writer

2013
Steven Universe

as Storyboard

2010
Adventure Time

as Writer

2009
Singles

as Writer

Sound

2013
Steven Universe

as Main Title Theme Composer

Producer

2019
Steven Universe: The Movie

as Executive Producer

2019
Steven Universe Future

as Executive Producer

2013
Steven Universe

as Executive Producer

Creator

2019
2013
Steven Universe

as Creator

Visual Effects

2009
Trade Winds

as Animation

Crew

2009
Trade Winds

as Thanks

Editor

2019
Steven Universe: The Movie: Behind the Curtain

as Archival Footage Coordinator

Art

2013
Steven Universe

as Storyboard Artist