Pride Month Replay | Producers and Directors Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey

This Pride Month, we are celebrating the LGBTQ+ community’s contributions to the world of animation. Join us as we revisit our past Happily Ever After Hours with Producers and Directors Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey, notable for their work on Cartoon Networks’ animated series Adventure Time and Steven Universe, as they discuss their experiences working in television animation, the importance of LGBTQ+ representation in family entertainment, and Sugar’s impact as the first female and non-binary show creator at Cartoon Network.
This program was originally presented on June 25, 2021.
About the Speakers
Ground-breaking creative juggernaut Rebecca Sugar (she/they) is an animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter. They are best known for their Emmy®-nominated, GLAAD and Peabody Award-winning series, Steven Universe, on which they served as Executive Producer, Director, Head Writer, storyboard artist, and songwriter. Prior, they were a writer, storyboard artist, and songwriter on Adventure Time. Sugar has been fighting for LGBTQIA+ content in children’s media since 2010, and for a more inclusive environment both on screen and behind the scenes in the animation industry.
Ian Jones-Quartey is an Emmy®- and Annie-nominated showrunner, director, animator, and voice actor. Jones-Quartey is currently developing Machine Learning under a “show-verall” deal at Netflix. He is the creator of the Cartoon Network animated series OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, and Co-Executive Producer of Steven Universe and Steven Universe: The Movie (2019). He was also a supervisor on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time and Animation Director on Adult Swim's The Venture Bros.

[@davidmarchie3483]

I remember this back in 2021 and I still currently miss Rebecca Sugar since Saturday June 10 💖😎✨🌈💎 but I’ve Always Believe in her and Steven Universe Forever! 🌸🌹⭐

[@PogieJoe]

This interview was a delight! Rebecca and Ian seem like such wonderful people.

[@jamiethomas3768]

They’re really not. Rebecca Sugar used to draw✍️cartoon porn of Ed, Ed and Eddy. I instead draw✍️tornadoes🌪️and black holes🕳️.

[@patrickmanway290]

​@@jamiethomas3768 Who cares?! Geezus.

[@shaamex2]

Ian Jones-Quartey knows about alan ituriel but ian is very busy but same way alan ituriel mostly.

[@shaamex2]

Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey are good people and busy.

[@shaamex2]

alan ituriel is my favorite.