Lauren Montgomery | |
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Born | Lauren Eve Montgomery May 1980 (age 36) |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Artist, Animation, Director |
Notable works
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Legion of Super Heroes, Superman: Doomsday, Justice League: The New Frontier, Wonder Woman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Batman:Year One, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender |
Lauren Montgomery (born May 1980) is an American film animation director and storyboard artist. She is noted for her storyboard work for animated television and DVD movie features. She directed the Wonder Woman animated film of the same name,Green Lantern: First Flight,Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Justice League: Doom, and co-directed with Sam Liu on Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Batman:Year One. She also worked on Young Justice and provided storyboards for Book 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon. In 2012, Montgomery returned to Nickelodeon and the Avatar franchise as the supervising producer and storyboard artist for the sequel series The Legend of Korra. She is now working as an executive producer and co-showrunner on the animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender with Joaquim Dos Santos.
Montgomery became interested in drawing as a youngster and developed an interest in animation. In 1998 she enrolled in the animation program at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television where she graduated in 2002.
She got her start on the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated by Mike Young Productions. Montgomery has done storyboards for animated television series' such as Ben 10 from Cartoon Network Studios as well as storyboard work for the critically acclaimed television series Justice League Unlimited, for which producer Bruce Timm praised her work as being quite versatile.