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, Goodbye Kitty, and Dick Figures.

Alan Lau[]

Alan Lau has worked as a writer, animator, director, and storyboard artist for Happy Tree Friends since 2003^[1], starting with the episode Remains to be Seen. He is formerly known for his work at WildBrain.

Alan Smithee[]

Alan Smithee was an animator who worked on some episodes for Season 3. They are likely a pseudonym belonging to at least one or more animators, since "Alan Smithee" was often a commonly used pseudonym for directors who wished to disown their projects.

Andrew Blodgett[]

Andrew Blodgett, also known as Big Show, is an animator who 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 is an animator who worked on the TV season^[3].

Aubrey Ankrum[]

Main article: Aubrey Ankrum

Bradley Rau[]

Brad Rau^[4] is an animator and writer who has worked on Happy Tree Friends since 2003. He also directed Operation: Tiger Bomb, and is the voice of Mouse Ka-Boom.

Chantelle Valdez[]

Chantelle Valdez works as a manager of advertising operations 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 an associate producer for the DVD Volume 2: Second Serving.^[6]

Cliff Malloy[]

Cliff Malloy is a web producer and manager at Mondo Media.^[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 the animation director for the TV series. He is also known for Three Delivery and Thomas and Friends.

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.

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]

Elaine Hultgren[]

also known as Elaine Holtgren is a storyboard artist for the TV series the segments being Home Is Where the Hurt Is, Wingin' It and In a Jam. 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".

Erika Worthylake[]

Erika Worthylake worked 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!

Ewen Nguyen[]

Ewen Nguyen is an animator who worked on the TV season of Happy Tree Friends^[10].

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.

Gene Fowler[]

Gene Fowler was an animator for FatKat and was the animation supervisor of the show.

Hillel Myers[]

Hillel Myers worked as a production engineer on Happy Tree Friends from 2000-2003.

Heather McDonald[]

Heather McDonald 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.

Jason Costello[]

Jason Costello worked as a content manager 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 director for Happy Tree Friends since 2001.

Jeff Biancalana[]

Jeff Biancalana was a writer, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor for Happy Tree Friends between 2001 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, Warner Bros. and Fox/Blue Sky Studios as a story artist.

Jeff Siergey[]

Jeff Siergey was the storyboard animator of Happy Tree Friends TV Series.

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 voices for the ants in Tongue Twister Trouble.

Jerome Rossen[]

Jerome Rossen works as the music composer and performer for Happy Tree Friends. He is the one who makes every single bit of music that you hear on 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 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 on Happy Tree Friends. He has left The show and is a writer for the show Cyberchase.

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.

Jon Lambe[]

Jon Lambe is an animator for FatKat who worked on the show as an assistant to Alan Lau.

Keith Dury[]

Keith Dury is an animator for FatKat who is best known for Skunk Fu! He was one of the lead animators of Happy Tree Friends.

Ken Pontac[]

Main article: Ken Pontac

Kenn Navarro[]

Main article: Kenn Navarro

Kris Fragomeni[]

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

Liz Stuart[]

Liz Stuart is a voice actress and producer 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.

Mark Fiorenza[]

Mark Forienza was a writer for Happy Tree Friends from 2000 to 2003.

Mark Giambruno[]

Mark Giambruno was the original voice actor for Lifty & Shifty in Happy Tree Friends from 2000-2005. 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.

Marius Alecse[]

Marius Alecse worked on Happy Tree Friends as an uncredited animator since the episode Helping Helps.

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.

Nica Lorber[]

Nica Lorber is a graphic designer. She used to be an animator at Mondo Media. She's the original and current voice of Flaky from Happy Tree Friends.

Neil Affleck[]

Neil Affleck works as a timing director on Happy Tree Friends since the episode Class Act.

Paul Allan[]

Paul Allan is a writer who worked for Happy Tree Friends from 2000 to 2006, 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 a new crew member for Happy Tree Friends and the original and current voice actor for Lammy.

Rhode Montijo[]

Main article: Rhode Montijo

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 a animator, storyboard artist, writer, and director on Happy Tree Friends since 2004. He is best known for directing the Ka-Pow! episodes Mole in the City and Mirror Mirror. He is also known for storyboarding episodes of the Nickelodeon show, The X's

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. ^[15]

Sam Hood[]

Sam Hood is an animator. 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 Out of Sight, Out of Mime and Keepin' it Reel 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.

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 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.

Videos of the Crew[]

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