JT
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Canadian animation director
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Male
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30 December 1976(Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Montreal Region, Canada)
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Biography
Jayson Thiessen is a Canadian animation director, most famous for being the supervising director and executive producer of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its spin-off films Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks. He also directed the 2017 film adaptation based directly on the television series.
Prior to working on My Little Pony, he worked on season 2 of the Pucca television series aired on Jetix (now Disney XD). Recently he directed four episodes of Cleopatra in Space, an animated series which premiered on DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia in late November 2019 and will be part of the offerings of the NBC streaming service Peacock in April 2020.