Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Sugar born July 9 1987 is an American animator director screenwriter producer and songwriter She is known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network Sugar was formerly a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time until 2013 Her work on the two series has earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations For her work on Steven Universe Sugar was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Shortformat Animation for the episodes Lion 3 Straight to Video in 2015 The Answer in 2016 Mr Greg in 2017 and Jungle Moon in 2018 In 2017 Steven Universe was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards the goal of the awards is to recognize the most inclusive and accurately portrayed representations of the LGBTQ community in film television and other platforms In July 2016 Sugar said at a San Diego ComicCon panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman In a July 2018 interview on NPR Sugar said that she created the seriess Gems as nonbinary women in order to express herself as a nonbinary woman through them