Jared Bush

Jared Bush (born June 12, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Zootopia (2016), writing the film Moana (2016) and writing, directing and winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the film Encanto (2021) besides co-creating and executive producing the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. Bush co-wrote the script of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Zootopia and also co-directed the film along with Byron Howard and Rich Moore. He joined the Zootopia project early on, before it evolved from a spy film into a police procedural; he was excited to work on a spy film because both his father and grandfather had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. He also wrote the screenplay of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Moana.