What was the residence of Roger Allers from 1973 to 1978?
Roger Allers Roger Charles Allers ( born June 29 , 1949 ) is an American film director , screenwriter , storyboard artist , animator , and playwright . He is most well known for co-directing the highest-grossing traditionally animated film of all time , Disneys The Lion King , and for writing the Broadway adaptation of the same name . He also directed Sony Pictures Animations first feature-length animated film , Open Season . Life and career . Early life . Born in Rye , New York , but raised in Scottsdale , Arizona , Allers became a fan of animation , at the age of five , after seeing Disneys Peter Pan . Deciding that he wanted to pursue a career at Disney and even work alongside Walt Disney himself , a few years later , he was sent off to Disneyland for a do-it-yourself animation kit . However , Allers , by then a high school student , grew discouraged about achieving his dream when he heard of Walt Disneys death in 1966 . Despite not getting the chance to meet Walt Disney , Allers still pressed on to receive a Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University . However , when he attended a class at Harvard University , he realized his interest in animation had been revitalized . After receiving his degree in Fine Arts , he spent the next two years traveling and living in Greece . While there , he spent some time living in a cave , and eventually met Leslee , whom he later married . As a young adult , Allers accepted a job with Lisberger Studios , where he worked as an animator for projects such as Sesame Street , The Electric Company , Make a Wish , and various other commercials . In 1978 , he relocated to Los Angeles with Steven Lisberger to work on a feature film titled Animalympics to which he provided story work , character design and animation for the film . Three years later , Allers found work serving as part of the storyboard team for Tron , which was the first theatrical feature film he worked on . In 1980 , Allers and his family moved to Toronto , Canada , where he worked for Nelvana Studios as an animator on a feature titled Rock & Rule . Following a brief return to Los Angeles , Allers provided character design , preliminary animation , and story development for the Japanese-produced animated feature , . For the next two years , he resided in Tokyo to serve as an animation director overseeing the Japanese artists . Disney . Returning to Los Angeles in 1985 , he heard that Disney was looking for a storyboard artist to work on Oliver & Company . When he applied for the job , Allers was asked to draw some sample character model sheets as a tryout , and worked on a portfolio and was hired shortly thereafter . Since then , he served as a storyboard artist on The Little Mermaid , The Prince and the Pauper , and The Rescuers Down Under before he was appointed as Head of Story on Beauty and the Beast . When story work on Beauty and the Beast was finished , Allers assisted as a storyboard artist during the re-writing phase of Aladdin . In October 1991 , Allers signed on to co-direct King of the Jungle alongside its initial director George Scribner . Allers brought on board Brenda Chapman , who would become the head of story . Afterwards , several of the lead crew members , including Allers , Scribner , Don Hahn , Chapman , and production designer Chris Sanders , took a safari trip to Hells Gate National Park in Kenya , in order to study and gain an appreciation of the environment for the film . After six months of story development work , Scribner decided to leave the project , as he feuded with Allers and the producers on their decision to turn the film into a musical , as Scribners intention was to make a documentary-like film more focused on natural aspects . Following Scribners departure and dissatisfied with the original story , Allers along with Hahn , Sanders , Chapman , and Beauty and the Beast directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale conceived a new story outline for the film over the course of two days in February 1992 . In April 1992 , Allers was joined with Rob Minkoff who was assigned as co-director , and the title was changed to The Lion King . Following the release of The Lion King , Allers and writer Matthew Jacobs conceived the idea of Kingdom of the Sun , and development on the project went underway in 1994 . Meanwhile , Disney Theatrical Group had begun production on the Broadway musical production of The Lion King as they had done with Beauty and the Beast . At first skeptical , Allers joined the Broadway production team , and together with Lion King co-screenwriter Irene Mecchi , they wrote the libretto for which they were both nominated the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical while the musical eventually won the Tony Award for Best Musical . After nearly four years on Kingdom of the Sun , Allers asked to leave the project due to creative differences with co-director Mark Dindal , poorly received test screenings , and the failure to meet its promotional deadlines . Ultimately , the project was reworked into The Emperors New Groove , and Allers left to work on Lilo & Stitch as an additional story supervisor . In 2001 , he was approached by Hahn to direct the short film , The Little Matchgirl . The project underwent four years of work , as it was planned to be attached with the proposed Fantasia 2006 film , and was accompanied as a bonus feature on The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition DVD . Meanwhile , Allers pitched the Celtic folk ballad tale Tam Lin to Michael Eisner , who at the time was in a corporate struggle with Roy E . Disney . Once Eisner recognized the project as Disneys baby , he declined to green-light the project . Post-Disney . In May 2003 , it was announced that Allers and Brenda Chapman would direct Tam Lin for Sony Pictures Animation . However , one year later , Allers was recruited to serve as an additional director on Open Season alongside director Jill Culton and co-director Anthony Stacchi , featuring the voice talents of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher . In January 2012 , it was announced that Allers will oversee the narrative structure , as well as supervise the production of an animated adaptation of The Prophet . In May 2014 , a work-in-progress version of The Prophet was screened at the Cannes Film Festival , and was given a limited release in August 2015 . Personal life . Allers has a daughter , Leah , and a son , Aidan .