Adam Muto (born July 20) is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, and producer known for his work as the executive producer and

showrunner A showrunner is the top-level executive producer of a television series. The position outranks other creative and management personnel, including episode directors, in contrast to feature films, in which the director has creative control over th ...

of the animated television series ''

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and co-produced by Frederator Studios for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn the Human, Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...

''.

Career

Muto was a classmate of ''Adventure Time'' creator

Pendleton Ward Pendleton Ward is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor who has worked for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios, and Netflix Animation. He created the series ''Adventure Time'', the Internet series ''Brave ...

at CalArts. When Ward was first working on the ''Adventure Time'' pilot for the Frederator incubator series '' Random! Cartoons'', Muto assisted him by drawing props. Eventually, Muto went on to work on the television series, serving as a storyboard artist. During the show's first season, he was partnered with Elizabeth Ito, but during the show's second and third seasons, he was partnered with Rebecca Sugar. During the following year, he was promoted to creative director, and midway through the show's fifth season, he was promoted to supervising producer, then co-executive producer. From mid-season five until the show's conclusion, he served as the show's

and executive producer (following Ward's stepping down sometime during the production of season five).

Awards

Adam Muto's work on ''Adventure Time'' gained him a

Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Owned and operated by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the P ...

nomination for the second season episode " It Came from the Nightosphere" in 2011, along with his then-storyboarding partner Rebecca Sugar.

Filmography

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* * Living people American animated film directors American animated film producers American television writers American male television writers Creative directors Place of birth missing (living people) American storyboard artists Showrunners of animated series Cartoon Network Studios people Primetime Emmy Award winners 1980 births 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American male writers Writers from Seattle Screenwriters from Washington (state) Film directors from Washington (state) {{US-animator-stub