Matthew O’Callaghan

Matthew O’Callaghan is a director, animator, and storyboard artist whose career spans feature films, television, and theatrical animated shorts.  Born in Chicago, he studied in the Character Animation Program at CalArts before beginning his career at Disney, where he worked on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Great Mouse Detective.

He made his directorial debut with the theatrical animated short The Itsy Bitsy Spider, featuring Jim Carrey, which he later developed into a television series for Paramount.  He went on to collaborate with comedian Louie Anderson to create the award-winning Fox series Life with Louie.

His directing credits include Universal’s Curious George, Disney’s Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, Sony’s Open Season 2, theatrical 3D Looney Tunes shorts for Warner Bros., Disney’s Tangled shorts for YouTube, and episodes of Mickey Mouse Funhouse.  He also served as showrunner and executive producer of Bentkey’s Chip Chilla.  He is currently working on the upcoming Simpsons theatrical movie.