Lauren MacMullan is an animation director

Animation director

An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or animated segment for a live-action film...

. Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic

The Critic

The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, both of whom had worked as writers on The Simpsons. The Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994,...

, followed by directing for King of the Hill

King of the Hill

King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...

. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill

Mission Hill

Mission Hill is an American animated television series that first aired on The WB in 1999. Although 18 episodes were planned, only 13 episodes were produced. The show was put on hiatus by the WB Network after two episodes due to poor ratings. It returned to the WB in the summer of 2000 but was...

. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...

, and stayed for three seasons. She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz...

, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show.

MacMullan was a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons. The film was directed by David Silverman, and stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Tress...

, and in 2009 she was a member of the Pixar

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

 team working on the animated film Newt prior to its cancellation.

The Simpsons episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

• "Bye Bye Nerdie
  Bye Bye Nerdie
  "Bye Bye Nerdie" is the sixteenth episode of the twelfth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 11, 2001. In the episode, when she becomes the target of a female bully, Lisa discovers a scientific reason as to why...
  
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• "Half-Decent Proposal
  Half-Decent Proposal
  "Half-Decent Proposal" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 10, 2002...
  
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• "Little Girl in the Big Ten
  Little Girl in the Big Ten
  "Little Girl in the Big Ten" is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 12, 2002. In the episode, after seeing John F. Kennedy in a hallucination during gym class, Lisa befriends two college students in order to...
  
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• "Moe Baby Blues
  Moe Baby Blues
  "Moe Baby Blues" is the 22nd episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons. It is the season finale.-Plot:The town goes to the Springfield Botanical Gardens to see the blooming of a Sumatran Century Flower...
  
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• "I, D'oh-Bot
  I, D'oh-Bot
  "I, -Bot", or "I, D'oh!-Bot", is the ninth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, which originally aired January 11, 2004...
  
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• "The Wandering Juvie
  The Wandering Juvie
  The Wandering Juvie" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. The episode aired on March 28, 2004. It guest starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as Gina Vendetti.-Plot:...
  
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• "Sleeping with the Enemy"

Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes

She has directed the following episodes:

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

External links

• Interview with Springfield Weekly