Jared Bush

Jared Bush born June 12 1974 is an American screenwriter producer and director who has served as the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2024 He is best known for cowriting and codirecting the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Zootopia 2016 and its sequel Zootopia 2 2025 writing the movie Moana 2016 its sequel Moana 2 2024 and the 2026 upcoming liveaction remake and writing directing and winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the film Encanto 2021 besides cocreating and executive producing the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero PartTime Hero Bush is a graduate of Harvard University Description above from the Wikipedia article Jared Bush licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia