ND Stevenson

Nate Diana "Indy" Stevenson (born Noelle Diana Stevenson; born December 31, 1991), known professionally as ND Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer.

Nate Diana Stevenson was born Noelle Diana Stevenson on December 31, 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina, to Diana and Hal Stevenson.

He is the third of five siblings.

Stevenson was homeschooled before attending A.C. Flora High School.

During his senior year, he created picture books and won a local award in the Visual Literacy Book Production category.

In a 2023 interview, Stevenson mentioned Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002), The Lord of the Rings films, and Project Runway as influences in his childhood and adolescence.

In mid-2012, Stevenson began creating a webcomic around the character, also called Nimona, and soon signed with a literary agent who found the webcomic online.

The agent helped him sign with HarperCollins to publish Nimona as a graphic novel.

Nimona would double as Stevenson's senior thesis in 2012.

For his work on Nimona, Stevenson won Slate Magazine's 2012 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year and the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint.

In the summer of 2012, Stevenson interned at BOOM! Studios, a comic publishing house in Los Angeles.

Stevenson attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2013.

While there, Stevenson gained fame as a fan artist under the name "gingerhaze" for his "hipster Lord of the Rings" characters.

During his junior year, he created his soon-to-be popular character Nimona as part of an assignment in one of his classes.

Stevenson created the cover art for Rainbow Rowell's novel Fangirl, which was published in 2013.

He also worked with Ryan North on his book To Be or Not to Be (2013), a choose-your-own-adventure-book based on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

After his graduation in 2013, Stevenson returned to BOOM!

Studios to help develop, and eventually write, Lumberjanes.

Stevenson was also named a 2015 National Book Award Finalist for the graphic novel version of Nimona.

Stevenson said that the ability to create comics on his own and create Nimona was what got him a "writing job in animation," bringing him into the animation world.

While in school, Stevenson did freelance illustration for Random House, St. Martin's Press, and Label Magazine.

Lumberjanes won Eisner Awards for Best New Series and Best Publication for Teens in 2015.

In 2015, Stevenson wrote for Marvel Comics on the comics Thor Annual and Runaways.

He did the cover art for Jennifer Longo's novels Up to This Pointe (hardcover edition) and Six Feet Over It (paperback edition).

Stevenson was part of the writing team of Disney's animated series Wander Over Yonder, beginning with the second season in 2015.

In 2017, Stevenson appeared in two episodes of Critical Role 's first campaign as Tova.

He has subsequently appeared in three Critical Role one-shot episodes between 2017 and 2022 as himself, Tova, and Peter Pan.

In June 2022, his character Tova was featured in a line of Critical Role miniatures by WizKids.

He is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which ran from 2018 to 2020.

He is also known for the science fantasy graphic novel Nimona, as co-writer of the comic series Lumberjanes, and The Fire Never Goes Out, his autobiographical collection.

Stevenson's work has won multiple Eisner Awards as well as a Daytime Emmy Award and a GLAAD Media Award.

Stevenson is non-binary and transmasculine, and has written about being transgender in his webcomic I'm Fine I'm Fine Just Understand.

Stevenson was the creator and executive producer of DreamWorks Animation's rebooted She-Ra and the Princesses of Power animated television series on Netflix, which ran for five seasons from 2018 to 2020.

She-Ra received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its diverse cast and the complex relationship between She-Ra and her best friend-turned-archenemy Catra.

In 2019, the show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming, as well as a Daytime Emmy Award at the 46th Daytime Emmy Awards.

In 2021, the series was tied with First Day when it won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming.

In 2020, Stevenson was described as executive producer and writer of a one-hour animated special introducing the characters of Lumberjanes, an animated series which will stream on HBO Max.

It was also announced that he would write and direct episodes for the main series, while serving an executive producer.

He was also described as working on the series in 2021 and 2022.

In a June 2023 interview, Stevenson noted he was "developing Lumberjanes" and "figuring out that world."