Nathan Greno (born March 22, 1975) is an American film director, story artist, and writer best known as the co-director of the 2010 animated film ''

Tangled ''Tangled'' is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Loosely based on the German fairy tale '' Rapunzel'' in the collection ...

.'' 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 Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) is a private art school in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded in 1879 as the Columbus Art School and is one of the oldest private art and design colleges in the United States. Located in downtown Columbus, CC ...

, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation. He started there as an animation cleaner on ''

Mulan Hua Mulan () is a legendary folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history. According to legend, Mulan took her aged father's place in the conscription for the army by disguising herself as ...

'' (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 ''

'', based on the fairy tale ''

Rapunzel "Rapunzel" ( , ) is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of '' Children's and Household Tales'' (KHM 12). The Brothers Grimm's story developed from the French literary fairy tale of '' Persinet ...

'' and chose

Byron Howard Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films '' Bolt'' (2008), ' ...

, 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 "Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 4th edition On Commons and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. Henry Col ...

'', 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 Media Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films wit ...

to write and direct an animated film provisionally titled ''Powerless'', as well as consult on projects in development.

Filmography

Films

Shorts

Cancelled feature film projects

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* American animated film directors Animation screenwriters Animators from Wisconsin Living people Walt Disney Animation Studios people People from Kenosha, Wisconsin Film directors from Wisconsin 1975 births {{US-animator-stub