Nathan Greno

Nathan Greno born March 22 1975 is an American film director story artist and writer best known as the codirector of Walt Disney Animation Studios film Tangled 2010 Inspired by Disney films since the first grade Greno started as a young boy writing and drawing comic books and strips In 1996 during his junior year at Columbus College of Art and Design he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation He started there as an animation cleanup artist on Mulan 1998 Being creatively unfulfilled he switched to story development He then contributed as a story artist on Brother Bear 2003 wrote a screenplay and worked as a story artist on Meet the Robinsons 2007 and supervised the story on Bolt 2008 With the short film Super Rhino 2009 he made his directorial debut In 2006 he took over a longindevelopment project Tangled based on the fairy tale Rapunzel and chose Byron Howard with whom he had collaborated on Bolt and Super Rhino as a directing partner The film was released in 2010 to a great critical and financial reception and was followed in 2012 by Greno and Howarddirected short film Tangled Ever After Greno had most recently been directing an animated film titled Gigantic Loosely based on the fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk it was scheduled for a 2020 release However in October 2017 it was announced that the film had been shelved In February 2018 it was announced that Greno had signed a multiyear contract with Skydance Animation to write and direct an animated film titled Swapped as well as consult on projects in development Description above from the Wikipedia article Nathan Greno licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia