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Sonny Charlton

Sonny Charlton is known for The Little Mermaid (2023), The Change (2023) and The Alienist (2018).

Christine L. Cantella

Costume Design · Known for The Little Mermaid

Christine L. Cantella is known for The Little Mermaid (2023), Planet of the Apes (2001) and In Time (2011).

Glen Keane

Executive Producer · Known for Tangled

Known for his work on Tangled (2010), The Little Mermaid (1989) and Pocahontas (1995). He has been married to Linda Hesselroth since 1975. They have two children.

Andrew McKeough

Andrew McKeough has a vast knowledge in the music, film, and theater departments. He is a three-time Cappie nominee and is a performer with the American Music Abroad Bronze Tour (2012 & 2014). He is close with classical-crossover singer Jackie Evancho. Andrew has performed at different venues across the United States and throughout Europe. He has also performed for many world leaders and politicians. Andrew has also been in many films and television shows. Andrew currently stars in The New York Psycho film series. He has worked alongside some of the greatest performers on Broadway, like Sutton Foster in the show Anything Goes. He has also worked with the casts and been a guest performer in different shows, like Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and more! His vocal and theatre coach is Mrs. Jennie Eisenhower. He will be touring this year so look for him when he comes to a location near you!

Joshua Turchin

Joshua Turchin is known around the entertainment industry as a multi-hyphenate; he's a singer, actor, dancer, musician, composer, music director, accompanist, and writer. Select theater/TV credits: Wicked: For Good, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation (Original Off-Broadway Cast), two Broadway National Tours, Flounder in The Little Mermaid Live-To-Film at The Hollywood Bowl, 13: The Musical (Netflix), Schmigadoon (Apple TV). When he was just 11 years old, Joshua began working as a music director at Green Room 42 as the host and music director of a popular monthly show in residence. At 12 years old, he started music directing at 54 Below. Since then, he has continued to be a highly sought-after music director, accompanist, and arranger and is honored to work with incredibly talented performers at 54 Below, The Green Room 42, Chelsea Table and Stage, and other venues throughout NYC. Musician/Composer credits include the viral new musical, Vengeance (book, music, lyrics), which is formerly known as Ghost Ship the Musical, and will be receiving a reading in the summer of 2024 in NYC. Joshua's first original musical, The Perfect Fit (book/music/lyrics), won awards including Best Book of a Musical at NYC's Rave Theater Festival when Joshua was 12 years old, and was live-streamed from New World Stages the following year. The EP was released on Broadway Records. Original Film Score: Sharing the Floor and Spotlight (awards won for Best Original Score and Best Song). Original Video Game Score: Viral video game (to be announced soon). Other original music is available on all digital streaming platforms.

Alan Smart

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Smart (born October 10, 1963) is a retired animator and animation director best known for his work as the supervising director on SpongeBob SquarePants, which he has been involved with since the pilot, and as assistant director and layout artist on the Simpsons (he has also received credit as a director in the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's"). He has done animation for the Nicktoons CatDog, Hey Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and Sanjay and Craig and on five animated films: The Little Mermaid, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Oliver & Company and The Chipmunk Adventure. Alan Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog, as an animation director on Clone High and the first season of Rugrats.

Ash Brannon

Cast · Writer · Known for Surf's Up, Arcane

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ash Brannon (born 1969 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American animator, writer and director. He was a story artist and directing animator on Toy Story and co-director on Toy Story 2. Besides working at Pixar he has also worked with Dreamworks Animation on Over the Hedge and Sony Pictures Animation on Surf's Up. Studying in CalArts Character Animation program, Brannon likewise practiced his skills in animation as a trainee for Disney's The Little Mermaid. From 1990-92. In the meantime, Brannon served as an animator for such projects as Nike's Hare Jordan Super Bowl ad in 1992 and the television series That's Warner Bros.!. He won an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production and Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production on Toy Story 2. He was also nominated for an Oscar in 2007 on Surf's Up. According to the Toy Story 2: Special Edition commentary Al McWhiggin's license plate reads "LZTYBRN," which is "Al's Toy Barn" minus the vowel letters. It is also the actual license plate of Ash Brannon. It was reported that Brannon is working as director on an upcoming film, Turkeys. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ash Brannon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John Sorapure

Cinematographer · Known for Ted Lasso

John Sorapure is a multi award winning Cinematographer 2nd Unit Director and DOP. He has worked on movies including Barbie (2023), Paddington 2 (2017), Wonka (2023), The Little Mermaid (2023) and television shows as well with Inside No.9, The Mighty Boosh, Twenty Twelve, Dr. Who and Ted Lasso for which he won 7 Emmy Awards.

Joe Abraham

Joe Abraham is an actor, known for Jersey Boys (2014), Bottled Up (2013) and The Numbers (2012). Prior to living in Los Angles he appeared on Broadway in "Hairspray" and Disney's "The Little Mermaid". He has been married to Christine Negherbon since June 11, 2005. They have two children, Cole and Ty.

Jodi Benson

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 2

Jodi Marie Benson (born Jodi Marie Marzorati on October 10, 1961) is an American voice actress and soprano singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voices of Disney's Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequels. In 2002 and 2006, she reprised the role of Ariel in the English versions of the Kingdom Hearts series. Most recently Benson voiced the high-profile animated character Barbie in the 1999 movie Toy Story 2 and the 2010 movie Toy Story 3. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jodi Benson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Pat Carroll

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid

Patricia Ann Carroll (May 5, 1927 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress and comedian. She voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid and appeared in CBS's The Danny Thomas Show, ABC's Laverne & Shirley, and NBC's ER. Carroll was an Emmy, Drama Desk, and Grammy Award winner, as well as a Tony Award nominee.

Claudia Hamilton

Claudia Hamilton is a multi-faceted classically trained Actor from Toronto, Canada. Claudia first started off in the Musical Theatre industry at the age of 12 landing her first role as Ariel in the stage production of The Little Mermaid, and in the following year, the adult cast of Fiddler on the Roof, as one of 12 children. Claudia moved many times in her childhood, attending 3 public schools, and 2 high schools, and eventually arriving back to her hometown, where the next part of her journey led her to transition into the world of theatre, attending York University's prestigious Acting Conservatory. Some of her credits include intellectual activist Athena from David Yee's play, 'rochdale' directed by Nina Lee Aquino at the SummerWorks Festival, and Othello from Sarah Ruhl's, Orlando. Claudia's recent on-screen work includes Left For Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story, Death She Wrote, and Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker. Through her work, she is timeless. She transmutes the darker parts of the black human experience and creates palpable performances. Her aim is to innovate, motivate and inspire people through storytelling on stage, screen and out in the community, so they can have the courage to overcome adversity and Allow themselves to be Seen.

Peggy Holmes

Director · Known for Secret of the Wings

Peggy Holmes is an American choreographer, dancer, screenwriter, and film director. Her full-length directorial debut was on 2008's The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, although she had previously directed a segment of the anthology film Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. She later directed Secret of the Wings (2012) and The Pirate Fairy (2014) from the Tinker Bell film series. She uses her choreography skills to bringing life to characters; animated in otherwise. Her choreography credits includes: The Country Bears, The Old Broads, I Love Trouble, Hocus Pocus, Newsies, and The Fabulous Baker Boys. Peggy's choreography was also used though television shows, specifically; for the Pilot Episode of Fame L.A. She appeared in the TV show Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash. On January 14, 2020, Peggy Holmes was hired to direct the animated film Luck.

Ben Wright

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, Have Gun, Will Travel

Benjamin Huntington Wright was an English actor. He was best known for playing Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music. He also played numerous roles in famous films and worked as voice actor, having roles in animated films by Disney Studios such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid

Chris Buck

Cast · Director · Known for Surf's Up, Frozen, Frozen II

Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series. Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.

Tuck Tucker

Director · Known for Hey Arnold!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Osborne "Tuck" Tucker III (August 20, 1961 - December 22, 2020) was an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, songwriter, and director who worked on Hey Arnold! and SpongeBob SquarePants. He directed Hey Arnold!: The Movie in 2002. Tucker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended Virginia Episcopal School and Virginia Commonwealth University. He would spend most of his time at home watching cartoons with his father and cites these experiences as being very special to him. He married Connie Dyste in 1990 and had one daughter, Gina Tucker. The family resided in La Cañada Flintridge. Connie Tucker died of a rare cancer in 2015 and Tucker moved home to Virginia to teach art to students at Longwood University. While in animation class, his instructor moved him to Los Angeles after graduation for work at Disney to work on the films like The Little Mermaid as his first animation job. Afterwards, he left to work on shows like The Simpsons from Fox, and then going to Nickelodeon while switching from storyboard work on Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters to directing on Hey Arnold!. After that, he moved on to SpongeBob SquarePants. He went from being a storyboard artist on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie to being a writer and storyboard director, and then a supervising storyboard director. During his time on SpongeBob, he won the 38th Annual Annie Award in 2011 for Best Music in a Television Production alongside Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, and Nick Carr. Afterwards, he went to direct on The Fairly OddParents during its ninth season. In January 2015, Tucker began teaching graphic and animation design at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Tucker died in Lynchburg on December 22, 2020, at age 59. His cause of death was not publicly disclosed.

Jonathan Young

Cast · Known for Ancient Aliens

Jonathan Young (born September 29, 1944) is a psychologist who became the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. Young developed an interest in the teaching functions of stories through early exposure to folklore. He was one of six children in a much-traveled family. His parents read and discussed the lore of each place they visited, such as the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, the Pied Piper in Hamelin, the Arabian Nights in Baghdad, and the Buddha in India and Japan.

Tony Anselmo

Cast · Known for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, DuckTales

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tony Anselmo (born February 18, 1967) is an Animator, cartoon voice actor and, since 1985, the voice of Donald Duck. Anselmo was trained by the original voice of Donald, Clarence Nash. Anselmo has also shared voice-over duties (with Russi Taylor) for Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie since 1999. He voiced the nephews on Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse. (Taylor voiced the nephews in Ducktales, Once and Twice Upon a Christmas and Mickey's Speedway USA and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006–2016) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit). He attended the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. Anselmo has also worked as a voice actor for the Kingdom Hearts series, which features Donald Duck as one of three main characters. As an animator, Anselmo has worked on such Disney theatrical films as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Tarzan. In September 2009 Tony Anselmo was named a Disney Legend. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Anselmo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jonah Hauer-King

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid

Jonah Andre Hauer-King (born 30 May 1995) is an English actor. He began acting while studying at St John's College, Cambridge. He appeared in the television miniseries Howards End (2017), Little Women (2017), and World on Fire (2019), and in the films The Last Photograph (2017) and A Dog's Way Home (2019). In 2023, he starred as Prince Eric in Disney's musical fantasy film The Little Mermaid.

Jessica Alexander

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid

Jessica Alexander (born 19 June 1999) is an English actress and model best known for her role as Lucy Carpenter in the Disney Channel show Penny on M.A.R.S. and Olivia Hayes in the Netflix teen thriller series Get Even. She began acting in short films but made her first television debut as Lucy in Penny on M.A.R.S. In 2023, she played Vanessa in Disney’s live-action film adaptation of The Little Mermaid.

Jacob Tremblay

Cast · Known for UNABOMBER, Wildwood, The Little Mermaid

Jacob Tremblay (born October 5, 2006) is a Canadian actor. He became known for his role as a child born in captivity in Room (2015), for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and became the youngest nominee for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. Tremblay subsequently starred as a child with Treacher Collins syndrome in the drama Wonder (2017) and a naive sixth grader in the comedy Good Boys (2019). He has since taken on voice roles as Damian Wayne / Robin in Harley Quinn (2019), the title character in Luca (2021), and Flounder in the The Little Mermaid (2023). He expands into more mature roles in 2026, portraying a young Ted Kaczynski in the upcoming Netflix biographical crime drama Unabomber for Netflix and voicing Curtis Mehlberg in the stop-motion fantasy epic Wildwood from Laika. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacob Tremblay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Samuel E. Wright

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid, Dinosaur

Samuel E. Wright (November 20, 1946 - May 24, 2021) was an American actor, vocal actor, and singer, best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, Dizzy Gillespie in Bird, and the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway.

Kenneth Mars

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid, Malcolm in the Middle

Kenneth Mars (April 4, 1935 – February 12, 2011) was an American actor. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), and Shadows and Fog (1991). Mars appeared in two seasons of Malcolm in the Middle as Otto Mannkusser, Francis's well-meaning but dimwitted boss and a German immigrant who owns a dude ranch. He voiced King Triton, Ariel's father, in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its sequel, as well as its companion television series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. He also did several other animated voice-over film roles such as Littlefoot's grandfather in the Land Before Time series (up to 2008) and that of Professor Screweyes in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), and King Colbert (Prince Cornelius's father) in Thumbelina (1994). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Mars, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Stefanie Butler

Stefanie Butler is an American film and television actress born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Stefanie spent the better part of her childhood in baseball stadiums around the country. In addition to an endless supply of hot dogs and bobble head dolls made in the likeness of her father, each night Stefanie and her siblings were given an audience of 50,000 spectators to dazzle with their latest renditions of The Little Mermaid or Maggie and the Shoemaker. Alas, the need to be a storyteller was born. Stefanie left Atlanta in 2002 and moved to Los Angeles, where she completed a degree in Theater from Pepperdine University. In 2006, Stefanie began her film and television career and has since appeared in a broad range of productions. In 2014, Stefanie starred in the independent films, I Remember You and Car Dogs playing opposite Patrick J. Adams. She has also appeared on CSI: NY, Shark, Rizzoli & Isles and Frank Darabont's Mob City. Stefanie's film debut was opposite Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger) in the Billy Graham biopic, Billy:The Early Years, starring as Ruth Graham. She recently joined the cast of Stranger Things, as Cynthia, the bubble gum chewing ball-buster girlfriend of Lonnie, played by Ross Partridge. She has also appeared in numerous national campaigns for companies such as: Burger King, Jeep, Pizza Hut and Toyota. The past few years, Butler has been writing and creating her own content. She has written a number of short films, two features and is working on publishing a children's book. She completed her first full-length screenplay in 2014, The Silent Queen. It is a historical fiction depicting a Irish queen kidnapped by Vikings and forced into a seemingly impossible decision. It is loosely based on actual events from her Icelandic heritage.