Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Sugar
Sugar at the 2014 New York Comic Con
Born	Rebecca Rea Sugar Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	School of Visual Arts
Known for	Animation, comics, songwriting
Notable work	Steven Universe, Adventure Time

Rebecca Sugar is an American animation director, screenwriter, cartoonist, and songwriter. She is best 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; her work on both series earned her four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland. She simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was an arts semifinalist in the Presidential Scholar competition), with both schools in Maryland. She went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Sugar first joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist during the show's first season. Due to the quality of her work, within a month of being hired she was promoted to a storyboard artist, making her debut during the production of the second season. Her first episode was "It Came from the Nightosphere".

Production for Steven Universe began while Sugar was still working on Adventure Time. She continued working on Adventure Time until the show's fifth season, whereupon she left in order to focus on Steven Universe. Her last episode for Adventure Time was "Simon & Marcy"; following that episode, working on both series simultaneously "became impossible to do". She had also previously encountered difficulty in the production of the Adventure Time episode "Bad Little Boy". Sugar did, however, return to the Adventure Time crew temporarily to write the song "Everything Stays" for the seventh season miniseries "Stakes".