34 Facts About Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Rea Sugar was born on July 9,1987 and is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and musician.

Rebecca Sugar is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network; prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the first woman to do so.

Until 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time.

Rebecca Sugar's queerness has served as the inspiration for her to stress the importance of LGBT representation in the arts, especially in children's entertainment.

Rebecca Sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland.

Rebecca Sugar simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School, both of which are located in Maryland.

Rebecca Sugar went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Rebecca Sugar majored in animation and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009.

Rebecca Sugar played an important role in the creation of nockFORCE, a cartoon series created by Ian Jones-Quartey and Jim Gisriel and launched in 2007 on YouTube.

In 2010, Rebecca Sugar published her first graphic novel, Pug Davis, featuring an astronaut dog and his gay sidekick Blouse.

Rebecca Sugar is known for her comic "Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead", a story about two brothers whose shared love of The Simpsons takes a tragic turn.

Rebecca Sugar first joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist during the show's first season.

Rebecca Sugar stated that some of the changes in animation for years to come were inspired by what the show was able to do by being "very artist-driven", by independent comic artists like herself.

Production for Steven Universe began while Rebecca Sugar was still working on Adventure Time.

Rebecca Sugar continued working on Adventure Time until the show's fifth season, whereupon she left in order to focus on Steven Universe.

Rebecca Sugar had previously encountered difficulty in the production of the Adventure Time episode "Bad Little Boy".

Rebecca Sugar returned temporarily to write the song "Everything Stays" for the seventh season miniseries Stakes, and the song "Time Adventure" for the series finale, Come Along with Me.

Rebecca Sugar returned for the Adventure Time spin off Fionna and Cake to write the songs "Part of the Madness" and "Cake on the Loose".

Rebecca Sugar was an executive producer for Steven Universe for its entire run, and a storyboard artist for several of its episodes; the series premiered on November 4,2013 and concluded on January 21,2019.

Rebecca Sugar directed the full-length television movie taking place after the fifth season of Steven Universe, called Steven Universe: The Movie, which premiered on September 2,2019 on Cartoon Network.

Rebecca Sugar has discussed the importance of creating LGBTQ representation and content, especially in children's entertainment.

Rebecca Sugar explained how Steven Universe has helped her come to terms with her own identity as bisexual and non-binary.

Rebecca Sugar believes that early and positive exposure to the LGBTQ community can help queer identifying children avoid experiencing shame in their own identities.

Rebecca Sugar designed the album cover of True Romance for Estelle, the voice of Garnet on Steven Universe.

Rebecca Sugar was not credited for her contribution to the episode.

On September 17,2023, Rebecca Sugar announced on social media her first personal music album, Spiral Bound, which released November 3,2023.

In video feature for the School of Visual Arts in September 2024, Rebecca Sugar said it was challenging to write a song herself, that she "didn't know how to start" and decided to write original songs for a cartoon character she created, noted that previously she had made a lot of art out of a "quest for perfection" and self-destruction, and said that much of what she does at the present goes back to her time at the school.

In June 2024, it was announced that Rebecca Sugar would write a new Adventure Time movie alongside fellow franchise alums Adam Muto and Patrick McHale, marking her return to the franchise.

In February 2016, Ian Jones-Quartey confirmed via Twitter that he and Rebecca Sugar were in a romantic relationship; at the time of the tweet, the two had been together for eight years.

Rebecca Sugar added that they met when Sugar was at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

In July 2016, Rebecca Sugar said at a San Diego Comic-Con panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman.

In October 2020, in the final art book for Steven Universe, Rebecca Sugar said that she loved being able to place her experiences in a different context "through a nonbinary lens" when writing characters for the show.

In March 2020, Rebecca Sugar expressed support for Senator Bernie Sanders's second presidential bid.

For Steven Universe, Rebecca Sugar has been nominated for several media industry awards, including six Primetime Emmy Awards.