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.
Between 2014-2018, 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.
Alongside that janky brush with showbiz, I hid inside WNYC and collabed with all the cool NPR homies, including Ira Glass and Robert Krulwich. Krulwich became kind of my "New York Dad" and he's still a close friend. The two of us have produced over a half hour of animated non-fiction pieces that all aired on CBS Sunday Morning. As an aside, and also In the 2010s, I earned 9 Vimeo Staff Pick Badges, back when those actually mattered.
Lately I've been developing long form television 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 Stand By Me or Moulin Rouge!).
Before moving to LA in 2025, I happily lived in New York for 18 years. 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.
My mom taught me how to animate when I was in the second grade. At college, she minored in psych and wrote her thesis on Walt Disney for some reason. 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. For anything big-ish, 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.
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