Nathan Greno
| Nathan Thomas Greno | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 22, 1975[1][2] Kenosha, Wisconsin[2] |
| Alma mater | Columbus College of Art and Design |
| Occupation | Director, story artist, writer |
| Employer | Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| Notable work | Tangled |
Nathan Greno is an American film director, story artist and writer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the co-director of the 2010 animated film Tangled.
Inspired by Disney films since the first grade, Greno started as a young boy writing and drawing comic books and strips.[2] In 1996, during his junior year at Columbus College of Art and Design, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation.[2] He started there as an animation cleaner on Mulan (1998).[2] Being creatively unfulfilled, he switched to story development.[2] He then contributed as a story artist on Brother Bear (2003), wrote a screenplay and worked as a story artist on Meet the Robinsons (2007), and supervised the story on Bolt (2008).[2] With the short film Super Rhino (2009), he made his directorial debut.[2] In 2006, he took over a long-in-development project Tangled, and chose Byron Howard, with whom he had collaborated on Bolt and Super Rhino, as a directing partner.[3] The film was released in 2010 to a great critical and financial reception, and was followed in 2012 by Greno and Howard-directed short film Tangled Ever After.
Greno is directing an animated film, titled Gigantic. Loosely based on the fairy tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk", the film is scheduled for a 2018 release.[4]
Filmography
- Gigantic (2018) (co-director)[4]
- Big Hero 6 (2014) (creative advisor)
- Frozen (2013) (additional story artist)
- Tangled Ever After (2012) (co-director; writer; voice of Maximus, a guard, & Stabbington Brothers)
- Tangled (2010) (co-director; voice of a guard and a thug)
- Super Rhino (2009) (director, writer)
- Bolt (2008) (head of story; additional voice)
- Meet the Robinsons (2007) (screenplay writer; story artist; voice of Lefty)
- Chicken Little (2005) (additional story artist)
- Brother Bear (2003) (story artist)
- Mulan (1998) (Clean-Up; Mushu)
References
- ↑ Happenings, April 7, 2011
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Grossberg, Michael (September 16, 2012). "Hollywood studios brimming with talent honed in Columbus". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
- ↑ Desowitz, Bill (November 19, 2010). "Nathan Greno & Byron Howard Talk 'Tangled'". Animation World Network. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
- 1 2 Khatchatourian, Maane (August 14, 2015). "Disney Announces Jack and the Beanstalk Animated Movie 'Gigantic'". Variety. Retrieved August 15, 2015.