Nate Cash

Nathan Shawn "Nate" Cash (born March 31, 1976) is an American writer, artist and director. He was born in Utah, and his most well-known works are SpongeBob SquarePants, Adventure Time, and Over the Garden Wall. In addition to that, he has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction in an Animated Program" in 2012.[1][2]

Career

Cash began his career on The Simpsons as a character layout artist. He started working at Cartoon Network Studios on The Powerpuff Girls and was later a storyboard artist on My Gym Partner's a Monkey. He was a writer and storyboard director on the biggest hit from Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants, from 2006 to 2011.[3][4][5] After he left SpongeBob, he became a storyboard supervisor on Adventure Time in Season 2 and later creative director. He left Adventure Time at the end of Season 5 completely to work on the miniseries Over the Garden Wall as a creative director alongside Bert Youn, created by another former creative director of the same show named Patrick McHale. Following his leave from Adventure Time, he was replaced by Andres Salaff.[6]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes
2003 The Powerpuff Girls: Twas The Fight Before Christmas Storyboard Clean-Up
2009 Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants Himself
SpongeBob's Truth or Square Storyboard Director & Writer
2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2 Story Artist

Television

Year Title Notes
2002–2003 The Simpsons Character Layout Artist (Seasons 13-14)
2003–2004 The Powerpuff Girls Storyboard Clean-Up (Seasons 5-6)
Story (Season 6)
2004–2005 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Character Designer & Storyboard Revisionist (Seasons 1-2)
2006–2007 My Gym Partner's a Monkey Storyboard Artist
2006–2011 SpongeBob SquarePants Storyboard Director & Writer (Seasons 4-8)
Songwriter ("New Digs")
2008 The Mighty B! Storyboard Revisionist
2009 The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack Writer & Storyboard Artist ("Shut It!" & "Under the Sea Monster")
2011–2014 Adventure Time Storyboard Supervisor (2011–2012)
Creative Director (2012–2013)
Voice Director ("The Great Bird Man," "Simon & Marcy", & "Puhoy")
Supervising Director (Season 5)[7]
2014 Over the Garden Wall Creative Director (Episodes 1-6) & Supervising Director[8]
2015 Star vs. the Forces of Evil Writer & Storyboard Artist ("The Banagic Incident")
2015 Pickle and Peanut Writer & Storyboard Artist ("A Cabbage Day Miracle")
2018 Summer Camp Island Storyboard Supervisor
2020 ThunderCats Roar Supervising Producer
2020–2021 Animaniacs
2021 Aquaman: King of Atlantis Consulting Producer
DC Super Hero Girls Co-executive Producer
2023 Tiny Toons Looniversity

References

  1. ^ OnTheRedCarpet.com Staff (June 23, 2012). "Daytime Emmys 2012: Full list of winners". On the Red Carpet. American Broadcasting Company. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  2. ^ "The 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Award Nominations" (PDF). Emmy Award. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
  3. ^ SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 4, Vol. 2 ("Best Day Ever" credits) (DVD). United States: Paramount Home Entertainment/Nickelodeon. January 9, 2007.
  4. ^ SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 6, Vol. 1 ("To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants" credits) (DVD). United States: Paramount Home Entertainment/Nickelodeon. December 8, 2009.
  5. ^ SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 6, Vol. 2 (DVD). United States: Paramount Home Entertainment/Nickelodeon. December 7, 2010.
  6. ^ Twoo – Meet New People. New.spring.me. Retrieved on January 1, 2017.
  7. ^ Nate Cash (supervising director); Nick Jennings (art director); Jesse Moynihan & Ako Castuera (writers) (March 4, 2013). "The Great Birdman". Adventure Time. Season 5. Episode 13. Cartoon Network.
  8. ^ Patrick Kevin Day (October 3, 2014). "'Over the Garden Wall' gets lost in creator's imagination". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 15, 2021.