List of Crew Members

This page is a list of former and current Happy Tree Friends crew members.

Many of the crew also worked on Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck, A Little Curious, Bump In The Night, Three Delivery, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Joe Paradise and various Mondo Media Shows.

Alan Lau[]

Alan Lau has worked as a writer, animator, director, and storyboard artist for Happy Tree Friends since 2002^[1], starting with the episode Milkin' It. He was previously known for his work at WildBrain, as well as Curious Pictures. Alan was the co-founder of Ghostbot Inc.

Andrew Blodgett[]

Andrew Blodgett, also known as Big Show, is an animator who previously worked for Fatkat and worked on Happy Tree Friends from 2006-2007^[2]. He worked on the TV Season, and was the animation director for The Carpal Tunnel of Love.

Andrew Embury[]

Andrew Embury was an Fatkat animator who worked on the TV season^[3].

Aubrey Ankrum[]

Main article: Aubrey Ankrum

Bradley Rau[]

Brad Rau^[4] is an animator and storyboard artist who has worked on Happy Tree Friends since 2003. He also directed Operation: Tiger Bomb, and is the voice of Mouse Ka-Boom. He was one of the founders of Ghostbot Inc and also worked for Curious Pictures and WildBrain.

Carrie Thornhill[]

Carrie Thornhill worked for Fatkat and was an animator for the Happy Tree Friends TV series. She is well known for Super Why, Animal Mechanicals, Inspector Gadget and My Gym Partner’s A Monkey.

Chantelle Valdez[]

Chantelle Valdez works as a manager of advertising operations for Mondo Media on Happy Tree Friends.

Chris Opena[]

Chris Opena is a technical director who has worked on Happy Tree Friends since 1999. He was also a technical director for the DVD Volume 1: First Blood.^[5]

Christina Chavez[]

Christina Chavez was a producer on Happy Tree Friends and was an associate producer for the DVD Volume 2: Second Serving.^[6]

Cliff Malloy[]

Cliff Malloy is a web producer and manager at Mondo Media who works on the show.^[7]

Dana Belben[]

Dana Belben was a story editor and the first voice actress of Giggles, Petunia and Cub. She was replaced by Ellen Connell in 2003. Her voice has been sampled in several TV episodes and also in the episodes Put Your Back Into It and Just Be Claus.

She also voiced Edna Maverick in Surf's Up. Belben also provided additional voices in the Open Season series. She was the visual effects coordinator on clothing and hair for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. She also voiced Peaches in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in an uncredited role.

She is currently working at Disney Feature Animation.

She graduated from San Luis Obispo High School in 1995.

Daniel Thériault[]

Daniel Thériault was a former Fatkat animator and was the animation director for the TV series as well as The Carpal Tunnel of Love. He is also known for Three Delivery, Thomas and Friends, Jimmy Two-Shoes, Total Drama Island and worked for Nitrogen Studios.

David (Bleiman) Ichioka[]

David (Bleiman) Ichioka was the producer of the Happy Tree Friends TV series and was one of the writers of The Carpal Tunnel of Love^[8]. His voice, along with Kenn Navarro, Ken Pontac, and Warren Graff is on the commentaries of the series DVDs. He is the only member of the crew to ever go to Miramichi, Canada, where the animation for the series was produced. Him along with Ken Pontac created Bump In The Night.

David Winn[]

Main article: David Winn

Dean MacDonald[]

Dean MacDonald works as an animator and creative director on Happy Tree Friends. He was credited as the voice of Cro-Marmot in the episode Read 'em and Weep and the voice of The Mole in Can't Stop Coffin. It's likely that these credits are jokes; neither Cro-Marmot nor The Mole have a voice, and in fact, the only character MacDonald did voice was Toothy in the pilot episode Banjo Frenzy. MacDonald was also credited as Podperson #36 in Peas in a Pod. He has been working on Happy Tree Friends since 1999.

Deirdre O' Malley[]

Deirdre O' Malley is an executive producer for Happy Tree Friends. She is also an attorney of record for Mondo Media.^[9]

Don Gillies[]

Don Gillies was a writer on the segment Every Litter Bit Hurts for the TV series, he is also known for Toddworld, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Make Way For Noddy and Dragon Tales.

Edward Artinian[]

Edward Artinian was an animator for Happy Tree Friends and worked on various other Mondo Mini Shows like Absolute Zero and Like, News. He is well known for Motorcity, Animaniacs, My Gym Partner’s A Monkey, The Replacements, Unikitty, Beavis And Butt-Head, Steven Universe and All Grown Up.

Elaine Hultgren[]

Also known as Elaine Holtgren, she was a storyboard artist on the segments Home Is Where the Hurt Is, Wingin' It and In a Jam for the TV series. She is also known for shows like Curious George, Garfield and Friends and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

Ellen Connell[]

Ellen Connell was the second voice of Giggles, Petunia, and Cub. She took Dana Belben's place in 2003, starting with the episode Stealing the Spotlight. Her last episode providing their voices was Wrath of Con. Lori Jee has replaced her, although Connell's voice is still sampled in some episodes. She also worked on animation. Although rumors stated that she died in a "horrible accident", Warren Graff confirmed that she "moved to L.A., which is like death". Nowadays, she works as a psychotherapist in Washington, D.C.^[10]

Erika Worthylake[]

Erika Worthylake worked for Fatkat and was as an animator for the TV series, she is also known for The Tom and Jerry Show, Wild Kratts and The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That!.

Francis Carr[]

Francis Carr is a foley artist who has worked on Happy Tree Friends since 2003. He is also the current voice actor of Russell, having replaced Jeff Biancalana since The Wrong Side of the Tracks.

Franz Palomares[]

Franz Palomares was an animator on Happy Tree Friends on season 1. He is known for his cel animation on A Little Curious and animation on other Mondo Mini Shows like Absolute Zero and Like, News and now has his own company called FMPstudio.

Gene Fowler[]

Gene Fowler was the founder of Fatkat and was the executive producer for said company on the TV series as well as The Carpal Tunnel of Love.

Greg Garcia[]

Greg Garcia was a storyboard artist for the Happy Tree Friends TV segments Ipso Fatso and Blast From the Past. He is well known for X-Men, Butt-Ugly Martians and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He has done a voice for Family Guy for Pat Buchanan as an uncredited role.

Hillel Myers[]

Hillel Myers worked as a production engineer on Happy Tree Friends from 1999-2001.

Heather McDonald[]

Heather McDonald worked for Fatkat and was as an assistant animator on Happy Tree Friends (TV series).

James LeFleur[]

James LeFleur is one of many of the crew that work on the animation of Happy Tree Friends.

Jared MacPhee[]

Jared MacPhee worked for Fatkat and worked as an animator for the Happy Tree Friends TV series. He is well known for Johnny Test and The Replacements.

Jason Costello[]

Jason Costello worked as a content manager for Mondo Media on Happy Tree Friends. He seems to have been replaced by Zdravomir Staykov now but he might still be working on the show.

Jason Sadler[]

Jason Sadler has been an animator, writer and animation director for Happy Tree Friends since 2000. He is known for his former work at Blue Sky Studios and created a Mondo Mini Show known as Heavy Metal Guy. He was a designer and director on Happy Tree Friends: Ski Patrol.

Jeff Biancalana[]

Jeff Biancalana was a writer, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor for Happy Tree Friends between 2000 and 2005, although he did co-write some of the TV series. He is the former voice actor of Russell and Buddhist Monkey. He also worked for Disney, WildBrain, DreamWorks, Cinesite, Illumination Entertainment, Curious Pictures, Ghostbot, Warner Animation Group and Blue Sky Studios as a story artist.

Jennifer Hansen[]

Jennifer Hansen (also credited as Jenny Hansen)^[11] is a color stylist who worked on Happy Tree Friends from around 1999 to 2006. In addition, she has worked on the color styling for the comics and False Alarm. She also provided the voice for Smittens in Tongue Twister Trouble.

Jerome Rossen[]

Jerome Rossen works as the music composer and performer for Happy Tree Friends. He has composed the music since 2003.

Jessica Teach[]

Jessica Teach is a writer for Mondo Media, one example of her work as a writer and producer for Happy Tree Friends was Rink Hijinks. She also voiced one of the ants in Crazy Ant-ics.

Jim Lively[]

Jim Lively is an American musician who works on various projects for Mondo Mini Shows, such as Happy Tree Friends.

Career[]

The music featured before, after, and during each and every episode of Happy Tree Friends are composed by Jim Lively, sound engineer for Happy Tree Friends. Lively has been in the sound business since the age of 16, and plans to continue his career of "making sounds for a living," as described by Jim Lively himself. Lively primarily works in sound design and dialog editing, although he continues to mix music.

Joe Kwong[]

Joe Kwong was a former crew member of Mondo Mini Shows, he was a story editor and executive producer on Happy Tree Friends. He has left The show and is a writer for the show Cyberchase.

Joel Smith[]

Joel Smith used to work for Fatkat and was an animator for the Happy Tree Friends TV series. He now works for Guru studio.

John Evershed[]

John Evershed is the founder and CEO of Mondo Media. He is an executive producer on Happy Tree Friends.

John Dusenberry[]

John Dusenberry was an animator on Happy Tree Friends who worked on many episodes by Ghostbot Inc. He currently works for Six Point Harness.

Jon Lambe[]

Jon Lambe is an animator for Fatkat who worked as an animator on 1 episode of the TV series.

Jonathan Roth[]

Jonathan Roth was an animator for Fatkat and was a lead animator on the Happy Tree Friends TV series. He is known for Ugly Americans, Dorg Van Dago, Polly Pocket, Three Delivery and Garth and Bev.

Keith Dury[]

Keith Dury is an animator for Fatkat who is best known for Girlsstuff/Boystuff and Skunk Fu! He was one of the lead animators on the Happy Tree Friends TV series.

Ken Pontac[]

Main article: Ken Pontac

Kenn Navarro[]

Main article: Kenn Navarro

Kris Fragomeni[]

Kris Fragomeni works as the finance manager for Mondo Media on Happy Tree Friends.

Liz Stuart[]

Liz Stuart is a voice actress for the show. She has worked for Happy Tree Friends since 2000, providing the voice of Sniffles.

She's also one of the current members of Vocolot (a Jewish acapella group, percussion and vocals)

Lori Jee[]

Lori Jee is a voice actress on Happy Tree Friends. She voices Panda Mom in the Buddhist Monkey short Books of Fury and the Ka-Pow! short Three Courses of Death. She also recently took over the voices of Petunia, Giggles and Cub.

Lyla Warren[]

Lyla Warren works for Ghostbot Inc. and formerly worked at WildBrain, SpazzCo and Curious Pictures and is an animator and storyboard artist for Happy Tree Friends from 2003-2006, she was an animator for another Mondo Mini Show Thugs On Film and is otherwise well known for working on The Backyardigans 2002 pilot, which is lost media.

Mark Fiorenza[]

Mark Fiorenza was a writer for Happy Tree Friends from 2000 to 2002.

Mark Giambruno[]

Mark Giambruno was the original voice actor for Lifty & Shifty in Happy Tree Friends from 2000-2003. He also worked as an animator on another Mondo Mini show, Thugs on Film. He passed away in 2014.^[12]

Mark Giglio[]

Mark Giglio is/was a writer for Mondo Media, an example of his work as he was one of the writers for the Happy Tree Friends episode, Stayin' Alive.

Mark Zaslolve[]

Mark Zaslolve is a writer for many segments in the TV series, he is well known for DuckTales, LazyTown, Strawberry Shortcake, Molly of Denali and Bob The Builder.

Marius Alecse[]

Marius Alecse worked on Happy Tree Friends as an uncredited animator since the episode Helping Helps. He works for Six Point Harness now and is known for Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Slacker Cats and The Loud House.

Michael E. Cole[]

Michael E. Cole worked on the Graphic Design for Happy Tree Friends. He no longer does though.

Michael Lipman[]

Michael Lipman, also known as Lippy, is the original and current voice of Nutty. He also created the episode Dino-Sore Days. Of all of the voice actors on the show, Michael uses the oddest technique to get the voice of Nutty right, which involves him sucking his thumb.

Misha Klein[]

She provided the voice for one of the ants in Crazy Ant-ics and is also a popular stop-motion animator.

Nica Lorber[]

Main article: Nica Lorber

Neil Affleck[]

Neil Affleck works as a timing director on Happy Tree Friends since the episode Class Act, He is known for The Simpsons and Rocko’s Modern Life.

Paul Allan[]

Paul Allan is a writer who worked for Happy Tree Friends from 2000 to 2002, his first episode being Water You Wading For.

Peter Herrmann[]

Peter Herrmann is Disco Bear's original and current voice actor. He has been working with Mondo Media since 1994^[13] (when they were originally a video game development company), initially as an animator and art director. He also worked on the music video for Unlucky. Additionally, he made the flickering effect in Dino-Sore Days.

Renée T. MacDonald[]

Renee T MacDonald — Renée T. MacDonald: Voice of Lammy.

Renée Torchio MacDonald is the original and current voice actor for Lammy.

Rhode Montijo[]

Main article: Rhode Montijo

Richard C. Zimmerman[]

Richard C. Zimmerman is a stop-motion animator known for Angry Kid, Gumby and Robot Chicken and was one of the storyboard artists for the Happy Tree Friends TV segment Every Litter Bit Hurts.

R.J. Eleven[]

R.J Eleven (real name Ashsha Kin)^[14] is a music composer who worked on the soundtrack of Happy Tree Friends from 1999 to 2006. He often collaborated on the sound production of the show alongside Jim Lively.

Roque Ballesteros[]

Roque Ballesteros has been an animator, storyboard artist and writer on Happy Tree Friends since 2003. He is best known for directing the Ka-Pow! episodes Mole in the City and Mirror Mirror, storyboarding episodes of the Nickelodeon show, The X's along with Alan Lau and Brad Rau, creating Joe Paradise for WildBrain and a director on Weird Al Yankovic’s “Party In The CIA” , cel animator on A Little Curious and founded Ghostbot Inc.

Rusty Andrews[]

Rusty Andrews is a music composer. He composed the music for Enter the Garden, Books of Fury and Mole in the City. He is mostly known for composing the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Joe Paradise and [1]Poochini ^[15]

Sam Hood[]

Sam Hood is an animator on Happy Tree Friends. He is known for animating Season 2 episodes. He has worked for companies like Blue Sky, WildBrain and Illumination Entertainment.

Sarah Castelblanco[]

Sarah Castelblanco creates sound effects for the show. She also voiced Mime on the occasions that he made an audible noise, such as in Keepin' it Reel and Something Fishy and a zombified Petunia in Remains to be Seen. She also did the voice of one of the ants in Crazy Ant-ics and Suck It Up.

Spence Robinson[]

Spence Robinson worked for Fatkat and made the props for the Happy Tree Friends TV series. He is well known for Yin Yang Yo, Jimmy Two Shoes and Total Drama Island.

Ted Pratt[]

Ted Pratt is an animator for the show starting at the episode Keepin' it Reel. He also did the storyboards for many segments in the TV Series. He is also known as an animator for the Cartoon Network show Out of Jimmy’s Head.

Warren Graff[]

Main article: Warren Graff

Zdravomir Staykov[]

Zdravomir Staykov works as the content manager and producer on Happy Tree Friends starting from 2009. He is also apparently the #1 Lumpy fan. His fellow crew call him "Z" or "Zed" as a short version of Zdravomir, the latter being very difficult to pronounce. He formerly worked for Mondo Media and has his own company called ZikVid Inc.

Videos of the Crew[]

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