Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, for which she has earned a Primetime Emmy Award. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for Adventure Time, for which she earned two Primetime Emmy Awards. She created, wrote and illustrated the Sci-Fi dramedy, Pug Davis. She has her own Reddit account which serves as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.

Sugar is a proud alumnus of The School of Visual Arts, her thesis film for which, Singles, can be viewed here: it was here that she met her longtime professional collaborator Ian Jones-Quartey; they have also been in a romantic relationship since 2008, and got married on December 4, 2019.

She also worked with Genndy Tartakovsky as a storyboard artist on Hotel Transylvania. Tartakovsky directed the animation for the Steven Universe pilot, which was used to pitch the show to Cartoon Network.

In 2016 she came out as bisexual, and in 2018 clarified further that she identifies as non-binary, saying that she accepts the use of both 'she/her' and 'they/them'.


 * Creator Couple: With Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and former supervising director/co-executive producer on Steven Universe. Both met as animation students in New York and have been living together since 2008, often collaborating on each other's projects.
 * Happily Married: They would eventually marry at the end of 2019.