Michelle Bryan

Person

Credits

Michelle Lynn Italiano (born March 13, 1971; age 54), professionally known as Michelle Bryan, is a SpongeBob SquarePants crew member. She initially joined as a production coordinator during its second and third seasons, before returning in season 12 as an animation director starting with the episode, "Sandy's Nutty Nieces."

She is currently an animation director who frequently collaborates with Alan Smart, Andrew Overtoom, Sherm Cohen, Tom Yasumi, and her husband, Eric Bryan. As of season 13's "Sea-Man Sponge Haters Club," she is always paired with Cohen and sometimes Ian Vazquez as of season 15's "Jeffy T's Prankwell Emporium."

Biography

Before working on SpongeBob SquarePants, she worked as an episode director on The Fairly OddParents! and T.U.F.F. Puppy. Since 1998, she started working in the animation industry and in the animation and art department at Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Then she started working on the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action, as an animation checker. After, she then worked on Danny Phantom as sheet timer, Pinky Malinky as character designer, and Harvey Beaks as animation director.