meet SOME Of Our
Award-Winning Story Team

Robert Lence has been a major contributor on some of the most famous and successful films in the history of animated features at Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks. 

 

He served as Co-Head of Story on Pixar's original Toy Story, the first-ever computer-animated feature film. He was one of the story co-creators of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Robert’s work also includes such all-time hit films The Lion King, Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Shrek.

 

He has worked as a Director, Head of Story, Screenwriter, Visual Development Artist, Storyboard Artist, and Story Consultant, helping create original characters, writing dialogue and shaping the story on over a dozen major-release animated features.

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A graduate of the University of Michigan, Robert also attended the California Institute of the Arts’ highly renowned Character Animation program. He still serves as an Animation Story Professor and Story Consultant at CalArts.

Academy Award Nominee, Geefwee’s professional career started at Disney. Since that time Geefwee has worked in Story and Visual Development for Pixar, ILM, DreamWorks, and others on films including Finding Nemo, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas, and The Little Mermaid.

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Both his character and environment designs for film have been published in books, including The Art of Monsters, Inc., The Art of The Incredibles and The Art of Finding Nemo. A number of his paintings and drawings were selected for exhibition at MoMA in New York as part of a Pixar Art retrospective. 

 

The opening title sequence to Monsters, Inc. was conceived, storyboarded, and designed by Geefwee, who also directed the animation. He was honored with inclusion in The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Illustrated Children’s Books. He attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

Jorgen Klubien is a renowned director, screenwriter, storyboard artist, designer, and animator. His animation background spans over 25 years, including working at Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks.

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He is the Co-Creator of the original feature film story idea for Cars and a Co-Writer of it, a $21-billion franchise. At DreamWorks, he was Development & Storyboard Artist and worked on Shrek Forever After and How to Train Your Dragon.

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He was Story Developer & Screenwriter at Pixar Animation Studios, working on A Bug's Life, Monster's, Inc., and Toy Story 2. As Storyman and Animator at Disney, credits include The Lion King, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mulan, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid, Frankenweenie and others. He’s a recognized pop singer in his home country of Denmark and also lives in Los Angeles.

Doug is a highly respected, award-winning creative designer with a wide range of experience spanning multiple disciplines of visual, graphic, and entertainment design.

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A career that started in graphic design evolved when Doug became fascinated by the power of design in storytelling. That interest led him to pursue an MFA in Production Design from the Yale School of Drama. Since that time, Doug has worked extensively in theatrical design, animation, and location-based entertainment.

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Most recently, he has been working as a Concept Design Principal for Walt Disney Imagineering. His projects include The Castle of Magical Dreams and The Enchanted Storybook Castle, the largest Disney castle in the world. Doug was the Production Designer for Tangled and worked as Art Director for the Academy Award–winning film Shrek.

Charlotte began her career in the publishing industry as the founder of Towne Publishing & Advertising Company. As publisher, she produced award-winning business and city publications that were known for their innovative fusing of form and content. They won numerous awards and were regarded as among the finest in the United States. In addition, Towne established a footprint in the newspaper industry and produced government films. All of Towne’s projects, both for the company and its clients, have been profitable.

 

Her career took a definitive turn when she came across an amazing true story that stole everyone’s heart and led her into the world of animation. 

 

A graduate of the University of Miami with a degree in finance, Charlotte is strongly committed to community service and has served on many boards. Some of her honors include “The World Who’s Who of Women for Publishing”, “Who’s Who Directory for Finance”, “Who’s Who of American Woman.”