James Wright

James Winston Wright (born on March 3, 1978) is a British-American writer, director and animator.
==Biography==
===Early life===
James Wright was born on March 3, 1978 in London, United Kingdom. From younger years, he was interested in cartoons and art, and started drawing as early as at 2 years old. After hearing about the CalArts Institute, Wright decided to move to California to study there, and the entire family moved to Santa-Clarita, California in 1990. There, he applied to CalArts in 1996, and later married his childhood sweetheart Hannah Flynn the same year.
===Animation career===
In 1998, he was employed on Nickelodeon, particularly on SpongeBob SquarePants, as an intern. He later quit the studio in 2010 to move to Adult Swim to work on his first original show, "Madical Treatment". After the show was finished, he came back to Nickelodeon in 2017 to work on "Gaming Gambit". During that time, he started slowly losing his trust in the network, and eventually parted ways with it on May 23, 2021, stating:
His first shorts he did in his tenure in CalArts were The Gamers (1997), The First Day (2000), Love at First Sight (2002). He also helped his friend Jake Faber develop a short called Hippie War (1999). After graduating from CalArts, him and Faber founded their own animation studio, JWW Productions, on October 15, 2007.
===Personal life===
He lives in Santa-Clarita, California. He has a brother named Nick (born 1997), and a sister, Jessica (born 1987). He was married to Hannah Flynn until 2021, stating that "their marriage did not have the same spark like 10 years ago". They remained on good terms. They had three children, Lester (born 1997), Elizabeth (born 2000), and Steven (born 2006). Nick was named after Nickelodeon, which was his favorite channel at the time, and Steven is named after Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants.
He is a "radical atheist", despite being raised in a Catholic family, and was previously agnostic until 2007.
In 2021, he revealed that he has been suffering from depression for 5 years, and considered serious help after the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
He also owns two cats.
He's close friends with Stephen Hillenburg, Alex Hirsch, Justin Roiland, Dan Povenmire, Jhonen Vasquez, April Davis, John Trabbic, Brian Morante, Liliana Mumy and Alyson Stoner.
==Filmography==
Television
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1999-2010 	SpongeBob SquarePants 	Storyboard artist, voice actor	Nickelodeon original series
2008-2012; 2022	Technology War 	Developer, writer 	Cartoon Network original series
2013-2016 	Madical Treatment 	Creator, producer, 
director, writer, voice actor,
voice director, storyboard artist	Adult Swim original series
2018 	Madical Treatment: The Follow-Ups 	Creator, writer 	Netflix original series; spin-off of Madical Treatment
2019-2022 	Gaming Gambit 	Creator, producer, director, writer,
voice actor, storyboard artist, art 
director	Comedy Central original series
2021 	Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years	Writer 	Spin-off of SpongeBob SquarePants, 1 episode; script approved before his departure from Nickelodeon
2021 	The Patrick Star Show 	Writer 	Spin-off of SpongeBob SquarePants, 1 episode; script approved before his departure from Nickelodeon
2022-2023 	Dan vs. The Multiverse 	Creator (original characters) 	Comedy Central original series; spin-off of Gaming Gambit
Film
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2020	Madical Treatment: The Movie 	Screenplay, story by 	Theatrical film
2023	Madical Treatment: The Sequel	Director, screenplay, voice actor, story by	Theatrical film
2025	The Experiment 	Director, screenplay, story by
Plays The Observer	Theatrical film
Category:Animators
Category:Animators from California
Category:Voice actors
Category:Creators
Category:People
Category:People of English descent
Category:1970s births
Category:1978 births