Lauren MacMullan

Lauren Hunter MacMullan (born April 30, 1964) is an American animation director. She grew up in the Pennsylvania suburbs of Havertown, Lansdowne and Swarthmore, and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. She attended Harvard University, and was on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, where she directed the episode with guest stars Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons. She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show.

MacMullan was a sequence director on

• "Bye Bye Nerdie"
• "Half-Decent Proposal"
• "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
• "Moe Baby Blues"
• "
  I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot
  "
• "The Wandering Juvie"
• "Sleeping with the Enemy"

Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

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  The Southern Air Temple
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  The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)
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  The Storm
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  The Deserter
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  Siege of the North, Part 1
  "
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  The Cave of Two Lovers
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  Avatar Day
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• "Zuko Alone"
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  The Desert
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• "City of Walls and Secrets"
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  Lake Laogai
  "

Short films

• Get a Horse!

References

External links

• Lauren MacMullan at
  IMDb
• Interview with Springfield Weekly at the Wayback Machine (archived April 9, 2007)

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