Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Sugar

Sugar at the 2014 New York Comic Con
Born Rebecca Rea Sugar
(1987-07-09) July 9, 1987
Nationality American
Alma mater School of Visual Arts
Known for Animation, comics, songwriting
Notable work Steven Universe, Adventure Time

Rebecca Rea Sugar is an American animator, composer and director. She is best known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network.[1] Sugar was formerly a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. Her work on Adventure Time and Steven Universe have earned her three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.[2]

Early life

Sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland. She simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was an arts semifinalist in the Presidential Scholar competition), with both schools in Maryland.[3][4] She went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York.[5]

Career

Sugar first joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist during the show's first season.[6] Due to the quality of her work, within a month of being hired she was promoted to a storyboard artist, making her debut during the production of the second season.[7] Her first episode was "It Came from the Nightosphere".[8]

Production for Steven Universe began while Sugar was still working on Adventure Time. She continued working on Adventure Time until the show's fifth season, whereupon she left in order to focus on Steven Universe. Her last episode for Adventure Time was "Simon & Marcy"; following that episode, working on both series simultaneously "became impossible to do". She had also previously encountered difficulty in the production of the Adventure Time episode "Bad Little Boy".[9] Sugar did, however, return to the Adventure Time crew temporarily to write the song "Everything Stays" for the seventh season miniseries "Stakes".[10]

Sugar designed the album cover of True Romance for Estelle, the voice of Garnet on Steven Universe.

Accolades

Rebecca Sugar's work on Adventure Time gained Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation nominations for the episode "It Came from the Nightosphere" in 2011 and for the episode "Simon & Marcy" in 2013, as well as a 2012 Annie Award nomination for Best Storyboarding in a Television Production.[11][12][13] In 2012, Forbes magazine included her on its "30 Under 30 in Entertainment" list, noting that she was responsible for "many of the best episodes" of Adventure Time.[1]

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" and "The Answer".[14]

Personal life

In February 2016, Ian Jones-Quartey confirmed that he and Sugar had been in a romantic relationship for the past eight years.[15] He added that they met when Sugar was at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In July 2016, Sugar said at a San Diego Comic-Con panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe were in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman.[16]

Her father Rob Sugar said that Rebecca and her brother Steven were raised with what he called "Jewish sensibilities". Both siblings observe the lighting of Hanukkah candles with their parents via Skype.[7]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
2012 Hotel Transylvania Storyboard artist[17]

Television

Year Title Role
2009–2012; 2015 Adventure Time Story, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter, storyboard revisionist; voice of Marceline's mother
2012–present Steven Universe Creator, executive producer, storyline writer, storyboard artist, songwriter

References

  1. 1 2 "Rebecca Sugar – 30 Under 30: Hollywood". Forbes. December 17, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Cartoon Network Announce New Show By Rebecca Sugar". Web Stoopid. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Two Students are Named Presidential Scholars". montgomeryschoolsmd.org. May 10, 2005. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cavna, Michael (November 1, 2013). "'Steven Universe' creator Rebecca Sugar is a Cartoon Network trailblazer". The Washington Post.
  5. ↑ Amidi, Amid (October 5, 2012). "Rebecca Sugar Is Cartoon Network's First Solo Woman Show Creator". CartoonBrew. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ Ward, Pendleton (2011). "Rainy Day Daydream" [Animatic commentary track], Adventure Time Season One [DVD], Los Angeles, CA: Cartoon Network.
  7. 1 2 Moskowitz, Dan (May–June 2014). "Rebecca Sugar takes Hollywood by storm with hit cartoon show "Steven Universe"". Temple Micah. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  8. ↑ Seibert, Fred (October 11, 2010). "Rebecca Sugar's First Board (Nightosphere)". Frederator Studios. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Kohn, Eric (2013-11-01). "Adventure Time Writer Rebecca Sugar on Steven Universe, Being Cartoon Network's First Female Show Creator And Why Pop Art Is 'Offensive'". Indiewire. p. 1. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  10. ↑ "[Olivia Olson confirms when 'Stakes' will air]". Instagram. July 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Adventure Time". Emmys.com. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Emmys 2013: Complete List of Nominees". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. July 18, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  13. ↑ Beck, Jerry (December 5, 2011). "Annie Award Nominations 2011". Cartoon Brew. Cartoon Brew LLC. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Steven Universe". Emmys.com. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  15. ↑ "ian jq on Twitter: "@CreeperGuy1337 yeah! We've been together over 8 years now"". February 13, 2016.
  16. ↑ Mey (22 July 2016). "Rebecca Sugar is Bisexual: "Steven Universe" Creator Comes Out at Comic-Con | Autostraddle". Autostraddle. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  17. ↑ Sugar, Rebecca (November 25, 2012). "I did some storyboards for Hotel Transylvania!". Tumblr. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
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