Person

Jared Bush

Writing · Born 1974-06-12 · Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

Jared Bush (born June 12, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director who has served as the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2024. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Zootopia (2016) and its sequel Zootopia 2 (2025), writing the movie Moana (2016), its sequel Moana 2 (2024) and the 2026 upcoming live-action remake, and writing, directing, and winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the film Encanto (2021), besides co-creating and executive producing the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. Bush is a graduate of Harvard University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jared Bush, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  Moana

  Original Film Writer

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  Zootopia 2

  Jürgen Ziegenkäse / Pronk (voice)

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  Moana 2

  Executive Producer

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  Zootopia

  Pronk Oryx-Antlerson (voice)

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  Encanto

  Screenplay

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  Raya and the Last Dragon

  Executive Producer

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  Hexed

  Executive Producer

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  Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

  Writer

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  Zootopia+

  Pronk Oryx-Antlerson (voice)

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  Lilo & Scratch

  Executive Producer

• 2027Frozen IIIExecutive Producer
• 2026HexedExecutive Producer
• 2026Lilo & ScratchExecutive Producer
• 2026MoanaOriginal Film Writer
• 2025Zootopia 2Jürgen Ziegenkäse / Pronk (voice)
• 2024Moana 2Executive Producer
• 2022Encanto at the Hollywood BowlExecutive Producer
• 2022Zootopia+Pronk Oryx-Antlerson (voice)
• 2021EncantoScreenplay
• 2021Raya and the Last DragonExecutive Producer
• 2016MoanaScreenplay
• 2016Imagining ZootopiaSelf
• 2016ZootopiaPronk Oryx-Antlerson (voice)
• 2014Penn Zero: Part-Time HeroWriter
• —Zootopia 3Executive Producer
• —Moana 3Writer