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Rebecca Sugar
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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,…
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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.
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2026
Critterbis
TV show Creator
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2025
Behind The Elephant
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2025
Adult Swim's The Elephant
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2025
AJ Goes to the Dog Park
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2023
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
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2022
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Movie Self
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2019
Steven Universe Future
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2019
Steven Universe: The Movie
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2019
Amphibia
TV show Busker (voice)
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2018
Steven Universe: Heart of the Crystal Gems
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2017
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
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2015
Adventure Time Forever
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2014
Distant Bands: The Music of Adventure Time
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2013
Steven Universe
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2013
Steven Universe
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2010
Adventure Time
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2009
Singles
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2009
Trade Winds
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The Adventure Time Movie
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Afterworld: กลับบ้าน
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Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars
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Untitled Animated Moomin Movie
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