Rebecca Sugar Biography
Rebecca Sugar is an American animator, screenwriter, director, songwriter, and producer. She is best known for creating Cartoon Network’s ‘Steven Universe,’ which made her the first female cartoon creator for the network. Formerly, Sugar worked as a storyboard artist and writer on the animated show ‘Adventure Time’ until 2013. She has also received seven nominated form Primetime Emmy Awards.
Sugar was raised in Sligo Park Hills, where she attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School. While in school, she won Montgomery County’s prestigious Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award. She also won first place for comics in the Newspaper Individual Writing and Editing Contest. Later on, Rebecca enrolled at the School of Visual Arts in New York. During her time at the School of Visual Arts, she wrote and directed a short animated film Single in which she collaborated with Ian who worked as an assistant animator. Also, her brother acted as an assistant colorist.
Moreover, Rebecca provided background artwork for “nockFORCE”, a web animation series that Jones-Quartey launched on YouTube in 2007. Three years later, she published her first graphic novel, Pug Davis, featuring an astronaut dog and his gay sidekick Blouse. Sugar is also known for her comic “Don’t Cry for Me, I’m Already Dead”, a story about two brothers whose shared love of The Simpsons takes a tragic turn. She joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist in the first season of the show. Later on, Sugar was promoted to a storyboard artist in the second season of the show. She began creating the Steven Universe while still working for Adventure Time.
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Rebecca continued working on Adventure Time until the show’s fifth season when she left in order to focus on Steven Universe. Moreover, she was the executive producer for Steven Universe which premiered on November 4, 2013. The film was followed by an epilogue limited series titled Steven Universe Future, also with Sugar as executive producer, which premiered at the end of 2019. In 2018, Sugar was featured on Gallant’s 2018 R&B/Soul track TOOGOODTOBETRUE, along with Sufjan Stevens.
Two years later, Sugar narrated a video titled Let My People Go, a video created by the organization Never Again Action. From 2020 and 2021, Sugar and her husband worked on a series of public service announcements with anti-racist messages. The same year, she served as an uncredited singer for a Christmas special based on the animated series “Amphibia”.
Rebecca Sugar Age
How old is Rebecca Sugar? Rebecca is 35 years old. She was born on July 9, 1987, in Siver Spring, Maryland, United States. In addition, she celebrates her birthday on July 9 annually.
Rebecca Sugar Height/ Weight
Sugar stands at an average height of 5 feet and 5 inches tall. Her weight is around 60 kilograms.
Rebecca Sugar Partner
Rebecca is happily married to her long-term boyfriend Ian Jones-Quartey. The couple met while studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York. They later tied the knot on December 4, 2019, after being in a relationship for eight years. She is also a bisexual woman.
Rebecca Sugar Family
Sugar is the daughter of Rob Sugar and Helen Rea. She belongs to a Jewish family and has a brother named Steven Sugar. His brother who works as a background designer helped her to design the” Steven Universe” network. More details about her parents are still hidden away from public reach.
Rebecca Sugar’s Net Worth
Rebecca has an estimated net worth of $4 million. Her primary source of income is her career as an animator, screenwriter, director, songwriter, and producer. Also, her fortune has enabled her to live a modest lifestyle.