Animation present creator, author and director Ryan Crego has signed with UTA for illustration in all areas.
Crego co-wrote and directed Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film for DreamWorks Animation forward of a Sept. 2025 theatrical launch. The stay motion and animated function will adapt the favored Netflix Gabby’s Dollhouse youngsters collection, with Laila Lockhart Kraner reprising her position as Gabby on the large display.
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film will comply with Gabby on a street journey along with her Grandma Gigi, performed by Gloria Estefan, to the city wonderland of Cat Francisco. However when Gabby’s dollhouse, her most prized possession, leads to the fingers of an eccentric cat girl named Vera and performed by Kristen Wiig, Gabby units off on an journey by way of the actual world to save lots of the dollhouse earlier than it’s too late.
The movie was penned by Crego with Melanie Wilson LaBracio and Adam Wilson. Crego started his profession as a storyboard artist at DreamWorks Animation, engaged on main studio titles like Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda 2, Shrek Perpetually After and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
He later joined DreamWorks’ tv division, the place he served as govt producer and showrunner of Residence: Adventures with Tip & Oh for DreamWorks and Netflix.
Crego went on to direct, govt produce, and co-write the screenplay and authentic music for the Netflix animated musical function Arlo the Alligator Boy. That was adopted by Crego creating and govt producing the follow-up collection I Coronary heart Arlo, for which he additionally wrote authentic music.
Crego earned an Emmy directing nomination for his work on Arlo the Alligator Boy. He will proceed to be represented by his lawyer Melanie Tomanov at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
UTA additionally represents filmmakers behind top-grossing animated movies like Moana 2, directed by Dave Derrick Jr. and co-directed by Dana Ledoux Miller, Despicable Me 4, co-written by Mike White, and Mufasa: The Lion King, penned by Jeff Nathanson.