Nathan Greno

Nathan Greno (born March 22, 1975) is an American film director, story artist, and writer best known as the co-director 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 clean-up 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 long-in-development 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 Howard-directed 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 multi-year contract with Skydance Media to write and direct an animated film titled Pookoo, as well as consult on projects in development.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Credited as
		Director	Writer	Head of Story	Creative Advisor	Story Artist	Other	Voice	Notes
1998	Mulan	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes		Breakdown Animator: Mushu
2003	Brother Bear	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No
2005	Chicken Little	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
2007	Meet the Robinsons	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Lefty
2008	Bolt	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Additional Voices
2009	The Princess and the Frog	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No		Disney Story Trust - uncredited
2010	Tangled	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Guard 1/Thug 1
2011	Winnie the Pooh	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No
2012	Wreck-It Ralph	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No
2013	Frozen	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
2014	Big Hero 6	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes		Creative Leadership
2016	Zootopia	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Moana	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes
2024	Spellbound	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
2025	Pookoo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No

Shorts and TV specials

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Story Artist	Other	Voice
2000	John Henry	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
2009	Super Rhino	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
	Prep & Landing	Template:No	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Dasher
2012	Tangled Ever After	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes	Guard/Maximus/Stabbington Brothers
2021	Blush	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No

Cancelled feature film projects

Cancelled Year of Release	Title	Director
2016, 2018, 2020	Gigantic	Template:Yes

External links

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