Lauren MacMullan

Lauren MacMullan is an animation director. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons. She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show.

MacMullan was a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie, and in 2009 she was a member of the Pixar team working on the animated film Newt prior to its cancellation.

The Simpsons episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

• "Bye Bye Nerdie"
• "Half-Decent Proposal"
• "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
• "Moe Baby Blues"
• "I, D'oh-Bot"
• "The Wandering Juvie"
• "Sleeping with the Enemy"

Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

• "The Southern Air Temple"
• "The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)"
• "The Storm"
• "The Deserter"
• "Siege of the North, Part 1"
• "The Cave of Two Lovers"
• "Avatar Day"
• "Zuko Alone"
• "The Desert"
• "City of Walls and Secrets"
• "Lake Laogai"

External links

• Lauren MacMullan at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Springfield Weekly