ND Stevenson

*Note to avoid confusion: As of 6/30/22, **Nate** has announced he uses he/him pronouns!!*

**ND Stevenson** is an American cartoonist and animation producer and the showrunner, developer and executive producer of *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power*

## Description

ND has been the showrunner, developer and executive producer of *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power* and voices the character of Spinnerella in the series. He is also known as the creator of *Nimona* and co-writer in *Lumberjanes*.

## Education

Stevenson attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and graduated from MICA in 2013.

## Career

In the summer of 2012, Stevenson interned at BOOM! Studios and later helped develop and write *Lumberjanes*. Also in 2012, soon after posting the first few installments of *Nimona* online, he signed with HarperCollins to publish *Nimona*.

He also did freelance illustration for Random House, St. Martin's Press, and Label Magazine. He has also worked with Ryan North on his Kickstarter-funded book *To Be or Not to Be*, a choose-your-own-adventure-book based on Shakespeare's *Hamlet*. He also served as a writer and background painter for season two of *Wander Over Yonder*.

He worked as a writer for Marvel Comics, made a guest appearance in two episodes of *Critical Role,* and in 2016, became executive producer, show-runner, editor, and actor on DreamWorks Animation Television's rebooted *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power*. In 2015, he started working on the show's bible, eventually becoming head show-runner and executive producer.

In March of 2020, Stevenson released a comic-memoir about his life leading up to his late 20s called "The Fire Never Goes Out."

## Personal Life

ND grew up in North Carolina, United States, with his parents and siblings. In July of 2018, he got engaged to fellow cartoonist Molly Ostertag and they were married in September of 2019.

On July 14, 2020, Stevenson came out as nonbinary.

On June 31, 2022, he posted a comic about solely going by he/him pronouns and choosing the names Nate and Indy. He still professionally uses "ND," but he identifies as "not [entirely] a boy."

## Trivia

* Stevenson voices Spinnerella on the show, and also the voice message for Serenia in Return to the Fright Zone.
* Molly Ostertag, Stevenson's wife, originally came up with the idea that Etheria is a weapon.
* In the episode "Princess Prom" he and his then-fiance appeared as cameos. He appeared again in the Season Four episode, "Coronation".
* During a Twitch livestream, Stevenson and his wife created "Finn", a non-canon nonbinary child of Adora and Catra. When asked to draw what Catra and Adora's future child would look like, ND made Finn a blond and blue-eyed cat person. He has mentioned that they dyed their hair blonde to look more like Adora. Their coloring is slightly lighter brown compared to Catra's. Stevenson mentions that because of Catra and Adora's upbringing they tended to spoil Finn, but were also overbearing which causes Finn to rebel against them a lot.

## Bibliography

### BOOM! Studios

* *Desert Treasure*
* *Sleepy Hollow* 4 #1–4

### Marvel Comics

* *Runaways* vol. 4 #1–4
* *Thor Annual* #1, April 2015, collected in *Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer?*

### DC Comics

* Wonder World; *Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman* #23 & 24, February 2015

## Awards and Nominations

ND Stevenson has many awards and nominations, all summed up on his Wikipedia page.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1261050253576298497