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ANDREW ADAMSON (Director) made his directorial debut on the first "Shrek," which won the first Academy Award® presented for Best Animated Feature. He is next set to direct the live-action film "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," based on the classic book by C.S. Lewis. The film will be shot in Adamson's native New Zealand. He is also collaborating with "Shrek" co-writer Joe Stillman on the screenplay for another animated feature for DreamWorks, currently titled "Truckers," which Adamson will also direct. "Truckers" is based on Terry Pratchett's best-selling fantasy trilogy known as The Bromeliad. Adamson first joined PDI--now PDI/DreamWorks--in 1991 with an extensive background in visual effects. His credits as a visual effects supervisor with PDI/DreamWorks have included the films "Angels in the Outfield" and "Double Dragon." He has also worked on the visual effects for such films as "True Lies," "Heart and Souls" and "Toys." Adamson also served as a key member of PDI/DreamWorks' commercial division on numerous award-winning spots, including Converse's "Planet Kevin," Dow's "Scrubbing Bubbles Greatest Show," and Miller Genuine Draft's "Juke Box." Apart from PDI/DreamWorks, Adamson's work as a visual effects supervisor includes the features "Batman Forever," "A Time to Kill" and "Batman & Robin." He saw his visual effects work on the two "Batman" films short-listed for Oscar® nominations by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Adamson began his career in computer graphics nearly 20 years ago in Auckland, New Zealand, as a computer animator at The Mouse That Roared. In 1986, he moved on to the post of design director/senior animator at Video Images Ltd., where he worked on a variety of broadcast logos and television commercials. KELLY ASBURY (Director) made his directorial debut with the animated adventure "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," which earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature. He had earlier served as a story supervisor on DreamWorks' first traditionally animated feature "The Prince of Egypt." He was also a story artist on the animated hits "Shrek" and "Chicken Run." Asbury began his career at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1983, where he remained for the next 12 years. While at Disney, he worked as a storyboard artist on such films as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," "Toy Story" and "James and the Giant Peach." He served as an art director on the Roger Rabbit short "Roller Coaster Rabbit," and as an assistant art director on Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." In addition to his film work, Asbury has written and illustrated a number of published children's books, including the Halloween-themed titles Witch Dot, Frankensquare and Candy Corn, which hit stores in Fall 2001. He also wrote and illustrated the children's books Where Is Snowy's Nose?, Rusty's Red Vacation, Bonnie's Blue House and Yolanda's Yellow School, and provided the artwork for the books Turkey Time and Thanksgiving Parade. His latest book, Dummy Days: America's Favorite Ventriloquists From Radio and Early TV, is a vintage photo-filled volume targeted for adults, which features commentary from film critic and entertainment historian Leonard Maltin. CONRAD VERNON (Director) makes his directorial debut with "Shrek 2," in which he also reprises the role of the popular Gingerbread Man. He first did the voice of "Gingy" in "Shrek," on which he also served as a storyboard artist and additional dialogue writer. Vernon joined DreamWorks in 1996, and worked as a storyboard artist on PDI/DreamWorks' first computer-animated feature, "Antz," as well as the traditionally animated comedy "The Road to El Dorado." Born in Lubbock, Texas, Vernon began his film career in 1991 on "Cool World" as an animator, effects animator, gag writer, layout artist and character designer. He went on to write and storyboard on Hanna-Barbera's "2 Stupid Dogs" and Nickelodeon's "Rocko's Modern Life." In 1994, Vernon went to Film Roman where he was a storyboard artist on the popular animated television comedy "The Simpsons." His other animation work includes directing for "Itsy Bitsy Spider," writer and storyboard artist on "The Ren & Stimpy Show," writer and storyboard artist on the television show "Nightmare Ned," and storyboard artist on "Harold and the Purple Crayon." WILLIAM STEIG (Characters) ---> Film Bio Here. DAVID STEM & DAVID WEISS (Screenplay) wrote the screenplay for the animated hit "The Rugrats Movie," and co-wrote the successful sequel "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie." Stem and Weiss also received an Emmy nomination for their work as co-producers and head writers of the "Rugrats" television series. They also wrote the acclaimed holiday perennial "Rugrats Chanukah Special." In addition, the writing team were co-writers on "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius," which earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature, and co-wrote the live-action adventure film "Clockstoppers." Stem and Weiss are currently writing "Daddy Day Camp," the sequel to the Eddie Murphy hit "Daddy Day Care," and an as-yet-untitled family film. Their upcoming films also include the family feature "Are We There Yet?," starring Ice Cube. For television, the writing duo served as executive story editors on the hit CBS sitcom "Cybill" and as co-producers on The WB's "Mission Hill." Stem attended USC's Graduate School of Journalism and wrote for TV Guide and Newsday. He also built an ADDY Award-winning career in advertising as a writer and director. Weiss received his graduate degree from the USC School of Cinema/Television. Prior to teaming with Stem, he wrote and directed several award-winning shorts and penned the screenplay for the popular animated feature "All Dogs Go To Heaven." He also won an Emmy for his writing work on "Dennis Miller Live." JOE STILLMAN (Screenplay) co-wrote the screenplay for the first "Shrek," for which he earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to winning both Annie and BAFTA Awards. He had earlier co-written the DreamWorks direct-to-video animated feature "Joseph: King of Dreams," and the animated comedy feature "Beavis & Butthead Do America." Currently, Stillman is working with "Shrek 2" director and co-writer Andrew Adamson on the screenplay for an animated feature for DreamWorks, presently entitled "Truckers," which is based on the best-selling fantasy trilogy The Bromeliad, by author Terry Pratchett. For television, Stillman co-produced the animated series "King of the Hill," on which he also served as a writer and executive story editor. He has received two Emmy nominations for his work on that show. His additional television credits include co-executive producer on the USA Network series "The War Next Door," and he also ran the story department for Nickelodeon's "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." JEFFREY KATZENBERG is a principal partner in DreamWorks SKG, the studio he co-founded with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in October 1994. Katzenberg previously served as a producer on "Shrek," which won the first Academy Award® ever presented for Best Animated Feature, as well as Best Animated Film Awards from a number of critics organizations, including the Broadcast Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics. The film also earned Golden Globe and Producers Guild Award nominations and is the third-highest-grossing animated feature of all time. Katzenberg more recently produced the traditionally animated "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," which earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Animated Feature. Katzenberg had earlier served as an executive producer on DreamWorks' clay-animated hit "Chicken Run," which was named the best-reviewed movie of 2000, in addition to winning awards for Best Animated Feature from several critics groups. He was also an executive producer on the traditionally animated films "The Prince of Egypt" and "The Road to El Dorado," and was a producer on "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas." DAVID LIPMAN (Producer) previously served as the co-executive producer on the first "Shrek." He also produced and wrote the script for the short film at the center of the Universal Studios Theme Park attraction "Shrek 4-D." Lipman joined DreamWorks Animation in 1997, where he served as co-head of production before starting to produce for the studio. Prior to coming to DreamWorks, Lipman was the supervising producer and executive in charge of production at Hanna-Barbera, where he produced 52 half-hour episodes of "The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest." He had previously served as vice president and executive producer for USAnimation, Inc., running the production division for five years. During his tenure, he produced hundreds of television commercials and numerous episodes of "The Ren & Stimpy Show," "Beavis & Butt-Head" and "The Simpsons," along with several multi-media/interactive projects and music videos on USAnimation's proprietary ink-and-paint and compositing software. Lipman also has an extensive background in 3D CGI, having worked as an executive producer at both Optomystic and Digital Animation Laboratory. He has also worked in live action as an assistant director and a second unit director on several feature films. He holds a BFA in Film from the Art Center College of Design and is a member of both the Directors Guild of America and Writers Guild of America. ARON WARNER (Producer) won an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature as a producer of the animated blockbuster "Shrek." He joined PDI/DreamWorks in 1997 to serve as a producer on the computer animated hit "Antz," which marked the first collaboration between PDI and DreamWorks. Warner went on to become head of PDI/DreamWorks from 2000 to 2002. Warner had previously held the post of vice president of production at Twentieth Century Fox, where he supervised production on such films as "Independence Day," "The Ice Storm," "The Crucible," "Alien Resurrection," "Volcano," and the number one blockbuster of all time, "Titanic." A graduate of UCLA Film School, Warner started out as a production coordinator at Empire Pictures, gaining experience on low-budget horror and sci-fi films. He then moved on to a position at Film Finances, a completion bond company, where he worked on more than 50 films. Warner began his career as a producer on the horror hit "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare." He then served as supervising producer on John Dahl's "Red Rock West," before beginning his relationship with Twentieth Century Fox as the line producer on Rachel Talalay's "Ghost in the Machine." He later executive produced "Tank Girl," also directed by Talalay. In addition, he oversaw production on James Cameron's blockbuster "True Lies." . JOHN WILLIAMS (Producer) served as a producer on the Academy Award®-winning animated comedy "Shrek," and was the person responsible for optioning the original book by William Steig upon which the first movie was based. He more recently produced the Jackie Chan action comedy "The Tuxedo," and the cable movie "The Junction Boys" about legendary football coach Bear Bryant. Williams is currently producing the animated films "Valiant," starring "Shrek 2's" Rupert Everett and John Cleese, as well as Ben Kingsley, Ewan McGregor and Tim Curry; and "Happily N'Ever After," starring Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Williams is president of Vanguard Films, which he started in 1981 following a three-year stint at PBS. Vanguard's first production was the Steppenwolf Theater's New York premiere of "True West," starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. The company subsequently produced "The Grapes of Wrath," with Gary Sinise, and Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," pairing John Malkovich and Judy Davis. Other Vanguard stage credits include A.R. Gurney's "The Dining Room"; G.B. Shaw's "Heartbreak House," with Rex Harrison and Amy Irving; "The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket," starring Tom Hulce under the direction of Emile Ardolino; "Balloon Farm," with Mara Wilson, Rip Torn and Laurie Metcalf; and an off-Broadway New Orleans Rhythm & Blues musical entitled "Staggerlee." Past feature films produced under the Vanguard banner include "Seven Years in Tibet," starring Brad Pitt, "Sarafina," and the Erroll Morris feature documentary "The Thin Blue Line," with American Playhouse and Channel Four/U.K. The company has also produced documentaries on John F. Kennedy, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, and the History Of The Blues, as well as live performance concert films with Spalding Gray, Culture Club and The Thompson Twins. In addition, Vanguard has also produced commercials through a joint venture production company with Virgin Records called Virgin Image. HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS (Music) has created the scores for a long list of both animated and live-action films. On the live-action side, he most recently composed the scores for the current release "Man on Fire," for director Tony Scott, and the upcoming "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," starring Renée Zellweger. Gregson-Williams' live-action credits also include "Veronica Guerin," "Phone Booth," "Spy Game," "Enemy of the State," "The Match," "The Borrowers," "The Replacement Killers," "Deceiver" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow." Gregson-Williams previously won an Annie Award for the score for the original "Shrek," which he co-composed with John Powell. He also earned Annie nominations for the scores for "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" and "Antz," the latter also in partnership with Powell. In addition, Gregson-Williams co-composed the scores for "The Tigger Movie" and the clay-animated hit "Chicken Run." Born in England to a musical family, Gregson-Williams earned a scholarship from the music school of St. John's College in Cambridge at the age of seven. By age 13, he had been a soloist on over a dozen records, and then earned a coveted spot at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He started his film career as an orchestrator and arranger for composer Stanley Myers, and went on to compose his first scores for Nicolas Roeg's "Full Body Massage" and "Hotel Paradise." Gregson-Williams' early credits also include a series of shorts for the BBC, the independent "White Angel," and "The Whole Wide World," for director Dan Ireland. His collaborations with other leading composers have resulted in Gregson-Williams providing additional music for such films as "The Rock," "Broken Arrow," "The Fan," "Muppet Treasure Island," "Armageddon" and "The Prince of Egypt." CHRIS DOURIDAS (Music) as served as a music supervisor and consultant for such major motion pictures as "The Girl Next Door," "Under the Tuscan Sun," "One Hour Photo," "Down With Love," "American Beauty," which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Soundtrack Album, the "Austin Powers" movies, "As Good As It Gets," "187," "Grosse Pointe Blank," "Grace of My Heart" and "Heat." He is currently working on DreamWorks' upcoming animated film "Over the Hedge." Throughout most of the 1990s, Douridas held the post of music director at KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, where he hosted the popular daily new music program "Morning Becomes Eclectic" (1990-1998). He was the first to play demos from then-unsigned artists Beck, Gillian Welch, and eels, among many others. During his time at KCRW, Geffen Records enlisted Douridas to identify and recruit new artists. As an A&R consultant, he brought the bands Remy Zero and That Dog to the label. Two years later, he became an A&R executive at DreamWorks Records, where he brought in such acts as eels and Propellerheads, among others. While at DreamWorks and KCRW, he hosted the debut season of "Sessions at West 54th," a critically acclaimed weekly PBS music performance and interview program, which bowed in the summer of 1997, and is still in syndication. A former VP of Creative Programming at AOL Music, he created, produced and hosted the popular "Sessions@AOL" program, interviewing and recording live perfomances with hundreds of artists, including Paul McCartney, U2, OutKast, Fleetwood Mac, Ray Charles, Josh Groban, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, and Nelly. Now a creative programming consultant for Steve Jobs on Apple's iTunes Music Store, Douridas created the recently launched iTunes Essentials, an ongoing series of downloadable music playlists for the iPod culture. As part of his work with iTunes, Douridas is launching the upcoming live performance and interview series, "iTunes Originals," this summer. In addition, Douridas continues to discover unsigned artists through a new nationally syndicated weekly radio program called "newground," heard on the Radio@AOL network, Radio@iTunes, and KCRW-FM in Los Angeles. He also does voiceover work, and was recently heard in the Nissan Shift TV commercial campaign. MICHAEL ANDREWS (Editor) has been working in the entertainment industry for the past 15 years. A graduate of the UCLA Film School, he has worked as an editor on the animated television series "Spawn," "Duckman," "The Ren & Stimpy Show" and "Rugrats." Andrews came to DreamWorks in 1998 to work as an editor on the direct-to-video animated epic "Joseph: King of Dreams." He also served as a second editor on "Shrek." SIM EVAN-JONES (Editor) previously served as the editor on "Shrek," and was also the associate editor on the traditionally animated musical "The Prince of Egypt." He joined DreamWorks in 1995 after working at Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio in London. His credits there included the posts of assistant editor on "An American Tail" and co-editor on "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" and "Balto." Originally from Great Britain, Evan-Jones received a degree in Film and Communication from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. GUILLAUME ARETOS (Production Designer) served as an art director on "Shrek," for which he won an Annie Award for Outstanding Production Design. He also worked on PDI/DreamWorks' first computer-animated feature film, "Antz." In addition, Aretos has designed numerous mythical beasts for animatronix developer Edge Innovation that can be seen in such projects as "Deep Blue Sea" and "Dinotopia." Aretos' career in entertainment spans three decades, and includes both writing and acting for television. In the late 1980s in his native France, Aretos was well known for his work as an actor on the television show "L'homme à Tout Faire," the French version of "Three's Company." Apart from his film and television work, Aretos' paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited in France, at galleries including the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Musée d'Art Moderne Albert Chanot. In addition, his illustrated books, including Le Livre Secret des Fournis (The Secret Lives of Ants), have been published in France and Korea. He has also contributed to the magazines Ciel et Espace, Science et Nature and Metal Hurlan (Heavy Metal). KEN BIELENBERG (Visual Effects Supervisor) has been with PDI/DreamWorks since 1990. He previously served as the visual effects supervisor on "Shrek" and "Antz," both of which were BAFTA-nominated for Best Visual Effects. His credits at PDI/DreamWorks also include acting as the lead technical director on the 3D animated segment of "The Simpsons'" 1995 Halloween Special, the feature film "Angels in the Outfield," and countless commercials, including spots for Matchlight, Lego and the Clio Award-winning "Penguins" spot for Halls. In addition, he contributed to the effects work in the feature films "Eraser" and "Heart and Souls." Educated at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Bielenberg combined the study of film and animation to complement his BS in computer science. PHILIPPE GLUCKMAN (Co-Visual Effects Supervisor) is currently serving as the visual effects supervisor for DreamWorks' upcoming computer-animated comedy "Madagascar." He had earlier been a sequence supervisor for "Shrek," after having held the post of co-visual effects supervisor on "Antz." Gluckman joined PDI/DreamWorks in 1994, starting as a senior animator/technical director. He worked on such projects as "Batman and Robin," "Batman Forever," "Marvin the Martian," and numerous commercials. Before coming to PDI/DreamWorks, Gluckman worked as senior animator at Ex Machina in Paris on projects ranging from commercials to theme park rides. Gluckman began his career as a traditional 2D animator as a partner with Storyboard, and was an assistant animator at Cartoon Farm, both located in Paris. He studied at the Ecole Nationale D'Arts Appliques, Paris. STEVE PILCHER (Art Director) previously served as the production designer on the animated fantasy adventure "Quest for Camelot." More recently, he was the animation production designer for the Farrelly brothers' comedy "Osmosis Jones," starring the voice of Chris Rock. He also worked on the visual development of the animated short "The Lion and the Lamb." In addition to his film work, Pilcher is an award-winning children's book illustrator. A self-taught artist, he has had his work exhibited in galleries, primarily in his native Canada. RAMAN HUI (Supervising Animator) was the supervising animator on the original "Shrek," as well as on the short film at the center of the Universal Theme Park attraction "Shrek 4-D." He had earlier served as lead character designer and supervising animator on PDI/DreamWorks' first feature, "Antz." Since joining PDI/DreamWorks, Hui has worked on an array of 3D characters, including a CG Mickey Mouse for Jim Henson's "Muppetvision," the first CG Pillsbury Doughboy and a Martian who interacts with a live-action earthling for Hanna-Barbera's television special "The Last Halloween." Hui also directed, wrote and produced the celebrated PDI/DreamWorks short film "Sleepy Guy," which received awards at the London Animation Festival and the US International Film & Video Festival, and won first place at Imagina in 1995. His in-house short "Fat Cat on a Diet" screened at many festivals and conferences, including the London Effects and Animation Festival (LEAF), Anima Mundi and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Hui began his animation career in Hong Kong at Quantum Studio where he worked as a cel animator. Moving to Canada, he studied computer animation at Sheridan College before going to work for a Toronto animation facility, creating hand-drawn animation for commercials. TIM CHEUNG (Supervising Animator) was previously a directing animator on the first "Shrek." Earlier he had served as an animator on "Antz," which marked the first computer-animated release from PDI/DreamWorks. Cheung joined the PDI/DreamWorks animation team in 1995, after receiving his Masters of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics from Pratt Institute and his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Taylor University. While with PDI/DreamWorks, Cheung has also written and directed the award-winning short "Gabola The Great." He also created a short film called "Rolling Stone." JAMES BAXTER (Supervising Animator) was the senior supervising animator for the title character of the Oscar®-nominated "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," and for the lead character of Tulio in "The Road to El Dorado." He was also an animator on the central character of Moses in "The Prince of Egypt." Baxter had previously served as a supervising animator on such memorable characters as Belle in "Beauty and the Beast," Rafiki in "The Lion King," and Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." His animation work also includes the films "The Rescuers Down Under" and "The Little Mermaid." Born in England, Baxter attended West Surrey College of Art and Design. He began his career at Walt Disney Studios London as an in-between artist and animator on Roger and Jessica Rabbit for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." ISIS MUSSENDEN (Costume Designer) has designed the costumes for a long list of live-action features, in addition to both "Shrek" and "Shrek 2." Her latest film credits include the recent release "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" and the upcoming romantic comedy "Breakin' All the Rules," starring Jamie Foxx. She is currently working on the film "Glory Days," and will next design the costumes for Andrew Adamson's live-action feature "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," based on the book by C.S. Lewis. Mussenden has also designed the costumes for such diverse films as "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," "Thirteen Days," "American Psycho," "The Astronaut's Wife," "Some Girl," "Dante's Peak," "Daylight," "Albino Alligator," "White Man's Burden," "Ghost in the Machine," "Bodies, Rest & Motion," "Matinee" and "The Waterdance." In addition, she has worked on a number of longform television projects, including "A Private Matter," "Memphis," "Storm and Sorrow" and "Taken Away."
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