Animation
Brian Sheesley
Brian Sheesley is a California native and works with Nickelodeon Studios as a director for Fanboy and Chum Chum. He began his professional career as an animator and character designer for the television series Family Dog, after graduating from California Institute of the Arts with a B.F.A. in character animation from the School of Film and Video. Continuing to work his way up the industry ladder as a storyboard artist, timer and assistant director, Sheesley quickly became a director. For the past 17 years, he has since directed such primetime television series as The Critic, King of the Hill, Futurama, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Camp Lazlo, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards. He has proudly served three terms on the Television Academy board of governors, and represents the below-the-line artists’ creative vision on numerous committees. Most of Sheesley’s time away from work is spent laughing with his wife and two daughters.
Shaun Cashman
Shaun Cashman is an Annie Award-winning director who began his career in 1993 on The Simpsons and steadily through the years has worked on various other animated comedies (King of the Hill, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Chowder) and is presently a supervising producer on Fanboy and Chum Chum, a series for which he directed the original pilot at Nickelodeon. A native of Middletown, Connecticut, he attended the Paier School of Art, majoring in Illustration, and after having a brief career at the Hartford Courant newspaper as an ad designer and illustrator, decided to come out West and pursue animation. He and his wife Jodey, also from Connecticut (but they met out here) and a former animation producer, live in Burbank with their two beautiful daughters, Lily and Holly. Cashman is very honored and excited about serving as a governor for the Academy and looks forward to doing some good work through it.
