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Jayson Thiessen (born December 30, 1976) is a Canadian animator and voice actor, best known as the first supervising director of the animated television series . He also directed its spin-off films (2013) and (2014), as well as based directly on the television series.
He was the supervising director for the first four and a half seasons of , and would occupy the position of executive producer (or showrunner) from season 2 until halfway through season 5. He also provided some voices, most notably and . He also directed the first two films, (2013) and (2014), as well as directing Rainbow Rocks' companion animated shorts. Halfway into season five, he stepped down from his role in the series as his attention shifted to directing ; his role as supervising director would be occupied by Jim Miller for the remainder of the series' run. As such, his role in the series diminished into a consulting director for both the second half of season 5 and the third Equestria Girls film, (2015), which was his final involvement in the Equestria Girls spin-off franchise (although he did direct the film's 5 companion animated shorts). After the season 5 finale, his focus completely shifted to directing the film. Season six was the first season in which he had no involvement in, and he also had no involvement in any of the final three seasons of the series even after the film was released in theaters on October 6, 2017.
He directed eight episodes of Cleopatra in Space, an animated series which premiered on DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia in late November 2019 and was part of the offerings of the NBC streaming service Peacock in April 2020.Thiessen's LinkedIn page notes that he was an episodic director for Cleopatra in Space at Titmouse, employed for about a year, from March 2018 to March 2019.
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