Peter Avanzino

Peter Avanzino at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011.

Peter Avanzino (born May 26, 1962) is an American animation director. He has directed several episodes of Futurama, and served as supervising director on the 6th and 7th seasons of the series. Avanzino works for Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California. He has also directed episodes of Drawn Together, Duckman, The Wild Thornberrys, Sit Down, Shut Up, and The Ren & Stimpy Show. He was also a storyboard artist on The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Simpsons. Also, he directed the Christmas movie "How Murray Saved Christmas." Avanzino currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife and kids.

Credits

Supervising Director

• Drawn Together
• Duckman
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Sit Down, Shut Up (with Rich Moore)
• Futurama (seasons 6-present)
• Clash-a-Rama (season one)
• Disenchantment (with Dwayne Carey-Hill)

Director

• How Murray Saved Christmas 2014

Sit Down, Shut Up

• "Helen and Sue's High School Reunion"

Drawn Together

• "Hot Tub"
• "The Other Cousin"
• "Super Nanny"
• "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special"
• "Lost in Parking Space, Part One"

Duckman

• A Room with a Bellevue
• The Once and Future Duck
• Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat
• From Brad to Worse
• Ajax and Ajaxer
• Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
• My Feral Lady
• Das Sub
• Class Warfare

Futurama

• "The Series Has Landed"
• "A Flight to Remember"
• "Fear of a Bot Planet" (co-directed with Carlos Baeza, Ashley Lenz and Chris Sauve)
• "Xmas Story"
• "Bender Gets Made"
• "Parasites Lost"
• "Insane in the Mainframe"
• "Crimes of the Hot"
• "Spanish Fry"
• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
• "The Late Philip J. Fry" Which he won a Prime Time Emmy *"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)#2010s for
• "Reincarnation"
• "The Six Million Dollar Mon"
• "Meanwhile"

The Ren & Stimpy Show

• "Stimpy's Fan Club"

Disenchantment

• "Love's Tender Rampage"
• "Tiabeanie Falls"

References

• Peter Avanzino at IMDb