I am an animation writer, producer and director based in Los Angeles. My emo short films about teenagers and animals have appeared at Sundance Film Festival, Adult Swim and many more impressive little places.
Lately I've been developing long form projects with Bento Box and Bandera.
That said, what I’ve wanted more than anything else in my life, ever since I was 14, is to make a movie -- like an actual movie, like Stand By Me or Moulin Rouge!...
Since the 2010s I've been an independent, short form animation director and designer -- a couple highlights:
9 of my projects were awarded Vimeo Staff Pick Badges.
I made over a dozen videos for WNYC, New York's NPR station. Theses were very fun years and that building is filled with wonderful people, like Robert Krulwich, creator of Radiolab, who I spun off with and together the two of us produced about a half hour of animated non-fiction pieces which all aired on CBS Sunday Morning, as Co-Creators.
Within that collaboration with Krulwich, was a three part series about the climate, financed by This American Life and Ira Glass. Our short "Ocean's Give, Ocean's Take" won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation in 2023.
There was a period of time where I was the Executive producer and Director of a 21 episode Facebook Watch series that literally no one saw -- albeit starring John Waters, Maria Bamford and Colin Mochrie, of Whose Line fame.
Before moving to LA in 2025, I happily lived in New York for 18 years, where I went to college in Manhattan at School of Visual Arts, as part of the graduating class of 2008.
And before that, I grew up in Rhode Island for 18 years, where I went to the coolest highschool on the east coast, in Providence -- they let us listen to headphones in class and call our teachers by their first names. It was “alternative highschool” and frankly, I loved every second of it. Also in Providence, summer 1997, when I was 11, I took at computer animation course at RISD, where I learned Macromedia Flash, now known as Adobe Animate.
My mom taught me the very basics of animation when I was in the second grade. At college, she minored in psych and wrote her thesis on Walt Disney for some reason, but because of that, she owned the book The Art of Walt Disney for research purposes, and then in the late '80s, gave that book to little old me. The two of us made flip books and broke the family camcorder together trying to make Play-doh California Raisons shorts.
I’ve been working hard at every conceivable level on the production chain for the last 25 years.
Feel free to reach me at: NathanielMilton [a] gmail.com. Or, for anything big-ish, like if you'd like me to write your movie, or work on your television show, I'm blessed to be represented by Patrick Newman at Mosaic Media Group.
Otherwise, through my tiny studio, The Nate Milton Company LLC, I'm available for freelance work and "we" generally say yes to everything. Thank you.
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