Matthew Faughnan

Matthew Faughnan

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Assistant director Director Storyboard artist Status: Active Number of episodes: 66 Seasons active: Season 9 - Present First episode: "The Last Temptation of Krust" Most recent episode: "Orange Is the New Yellow" Movie: The Simpsons Movie

Matthew "Matt" Faughnan is an animation director with The Simpsons and has directed two episodes: "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!‎" and "Treehouse of Horror XVII", which he co-directed with David Silverman. Prior to that, he was an assistant director with the show and won an Emmy award in 2003 for "Three Gays of the Condo".

Credits

Directed by

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as Malicious Matthew C. Faughnan) Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot" Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "The Great Wife Hope" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (as Merciless Matthew Faughnan) Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "Labor Pains" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (as The Infernal Matthew Faughnan) Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow"

Character layout

Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive" Episode – "The Old Man and the 'C' Student" Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Faith Off" Episode – "HOMR" Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "The Ned-Liest Catch"

Assistant director

Episode – "Pygmoelian" Episode – "Behind the Laughter" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "Simpson Safari" Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" Episode – "Gump Roast" Episode – "Helter Shelter" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Mommie Beerest" Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer" Episode – "Bonfire of the Manatees" Episode – "The Italian Bob" Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"

Additional sequence director

• – The Simpsons Movie

Lead character layout

• Episode – "Elementary School Musical"

Storyboard

• Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
• Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"
• Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
• Episode – "Labor Pains"
• Episode – "Married to the Blob"
• Episode – "Luca$"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV"
• Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
• Episode – "Friend with Benefit"
• Episode – "The Girl Code"

Storyboard revisions

• Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
• Episode – "Pay Pal"

Character designer

• Episode – "Married to the Blob"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV"

Animation director

• Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

External links

• Matthew Faughnan at the Internet Movie Database
• Matthew Faughnan at Wikipedia

Directors

Current directors Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino Former directors Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susie Dietter • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa One time directors Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Eric Koenig • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo Supervising directors Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Second unit directors Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell Other directors Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner