Joel Kuwahara

Joel Kuwahara

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Assistant to the producers Animation production coordinator Animation production manager Animation co-producer Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 116 Seasons active: Season 6 - 10 First episode: "Bart of Darkness" Most recent episode: "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" Movie: The Simpsons Movie First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield Latest album: Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons

Joel Kuwahara is a former producer for The Simpsons. He served as an assistant to the producers, animation production coordinator and animation production manager for Gracie Films and as an animation co-producer and served as an animation line producer for The Simpsons Movie. He also worked for The Critic and Bob's Burgers.

Credits

Assistant to producers

Episode – "Bart of Darkness" Episode – "Lisa's Rival" Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land" Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend" Episode – "Lisa on Ice" Episode – "Homer Badman" Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" Episode – "Fear of Flying" Episode – "Homer the Great" Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three" Episode – "Bart's Comet" Episode – "Homie the Clown" Episode – "Bart vs. Australia" Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" Episode – "A Star Is Burns" Episode – "Lisa's Wedding" Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" Episode – "The PTA Disbands" Episode – "'Round Springfield" Episode – "The Springfield Connection" Episode – "Lemon of Troy"

Animation production coordinator for Gracie Films

Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" Episode – "Radioactive Man" Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul" Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI" (as Joel Kuwa-Horror) Episode – "King-Size Homer" Episode – "Mother Simpson" Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud" Episode – "Team Homer" Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors" Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" Episode – "Bart the Fink" Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast" Episode – "Homer the Smithers" Episode – "The Day the Violence Died" Episode – "A Fish Called Selma" Episode – "Bart on the Road" Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield" Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing" Episode – "Homerpalooza" Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" Episode – "You Only Move Twice" Episode – "The Homer They Fall" Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" Episode – "The Springfield Files" Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" Episode – "Lisa's Sax" Episode – "Simpson Tide"

Animation production manager for Gracie Films

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as Krazy-Man Kuwahara) Episode – "The Homer They Fall" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "Bart After Dark" Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" Episode – "A Milhouse Divided" Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" Episode – "Mountain of Madness" Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" Episode – "Homer's Phobia" Episode – "Brother from Another Series" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" Episode – "Grade School Confidential" Episode – "The Canine Mutiny" Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa" Episode – "In Marge We Trust" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as Joel 'Puffy' Kuwahara) Episode – "The Cartridge Family" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" Episode – "Realty Bites" Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "Das Bus" Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "King of the Hill" Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" Episode – "Lard of the Dance" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "Bart the Mother" Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"

Animation co-producer

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Joel 'Jump Ship' Kuwahara) Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" Episode – "Mayored to the Mob" Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" Episode – "Homer to the Max" Episode – "I'm with Cupid" Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""

Animation line producer

• – The Simpsons Movie

For The Simpsons

• Album – Songs in the Key of Springfield
• Album – Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons

External links

• Joel Kuwahara at the Internet Movie Database

Animation producers and Animation associate producers

Current animation producers Peter Gave • Nikki Isordia • Jaspreet Katrib • Tom Klein • Michael G. Mahan Former animation producers Lolee Aries • Drew Arrison • Laurie Biernacki • John Bush • Chang, Myung Nam • Richard K. Chung • Gábor Csupó • Ken Duer • Film Roman • Joe Goyette • Scott D. Greenberg • Sherry Gunther • John Hyde • N. J. Kim • Klasky-Csupo, Inc. • Joel Kuwahara • J.C. Park • Margot Pipkin • Rick Polizzi • David Pritchard • Kent Rice • Phil Roman • Andrea Romero • Bill Schultz • Nelson Shin • Ken Tsumura • Jon F. Vein • Michael Wolf Other animation producers Edward Chiodo • Ron Diamond • Sanjee Gupta • Denise Minter • Kwan-sic Park • Ishani Priyamvada • Al Shier • Craig Sost • Joshua R. Wexler Current animation associate producers Kip Lewis Former animation associate producers Laurie Biernacki • Jason Bikowski • Jaspreet Dhillon • Peter Gave • Nikki Isordia • Michael G. Mahan • Rebecca Totman Other animation associate producers Elise Belknap • Katherine Cullano Concepcion • Brent Crowe • Karen Miller

Production managers and Animation production managers

Episode production managers Laurie Biernacki • Barbara J. Cordova • Margaret J. Glaser • Miles Lewis Horst • Raymond M. Iacovacci • Anne Luiting • Heliodoro Salvatierra • Shannon Scott Other production managers Maria Andreotti • Matthew Copeland • Jaspreet Dhillon • Suzanne Giordano • Audrey Gustafson • Alice Huzar • Subin Jeong • Bill Luckey • Cambron McKeever • Michelle Pniewski • Rich Rogers • Art Seidel • Anjel Shehigian • Anet Sirna-Bruder • Byung-Ki Sohn • Chris Ungar • Ji-Yeun Yi Current animation production managers Ashley Brooke Cooper • Derek Higgs • Jen Ligler • Ross McAlpine • Shelley McCully • Jane Rennegarbe • Heliodoro Salvatierra Former animation production managers Elizabeth Ableson • Martin Alvarez • Laurie Biernacki • Jason Bikowski • Richard K. Chung • Barbara Donatelli • Peter Gave • Sherry Gunther • Nikki Isordia • Eric Kurland • Joel Kuwahara • Kip Lewis • Michael G. Mahan • Trista H. Navarro • Maria Elena Rodriguez • Steven Schweickart • Pamela Kleibrink Thompson • Rebecca Totman • Ken Tsumura • Eric Vesbit

Assistants

Current assistants Joe Clabby • Nick Dahan • Nik Daniels • N. Vyolet Diaz • Matt Kance • Juliet Kaufman • Dillon Kennedy • Alexa Patterson • Iyanna Sheree • Lisa Walder • Demi York Former assistants Andrew Albenze • Neil Alsip • Drew Arrison • Stephanie Asch • Jacqueline Atkins • Stuart Baker • Katy Ballard • Ellen Barnett-Bendavid • Jane Becker • Lauren Biller • Josh Bornstein • Dominique Braud • Aileen Braun • Dee Cappelli • Justin Carter • Annette Caton • Robert Cohen • Colin Contreary • Vanessa Cropper • Daniel F. D'Lauro • Classie Davis • Claudia De La Roca • Ian Deitchman • Jenny Dewall • Alexander Duke • Barbara Duncan • Charleen Easton • Alison Elliott • Kim Everett • Sherry Falk • Craig Feeney • Louis Ferrara • Lisa Fetterman • Trixie Flynn • Carolyn Fox • Daniel Furlong • Dan Fybel • C.J. Gibson • Don Gilbert • Jeffrey Goldstein • Steve Gottfried • Sergio Guerra • Kelly Helstrom • Allison Higgins • Claudia Hitchcock • Eliza Hooper • Trisha Hoving • Debra Jackson • Elizabeth Jacobs • Victoria Kabakian • Maria Kavanaugh • Mick Kelly • Meghan Kiely • Danny Klein • Joel Kuwahara • Peter Kwong • Patrick Laffoon • Tod Lautenberg • Colleen Lawler • Grace Lee • Lawrence Lee • Mindi Lee • Drew Levin • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Lana Repp Lewis • Jamie Loren • Grace Lowery • Patty MacDonald • Jane M. Mackie • Adam Macy • Nadine Mahasneh • Tammy Mandel • J. D. Maria • Matt Marshall • Mark McBride • Michael McCusker • Sean Messano • Jacob Meszaros • Jesse D. Miller • Mike Mitchell • Charles Montoya • Benjamin Morse • Amanda Moshay • T. J. Muncan • Brendan Murphy • Jamie Nachenberg • Felicia Nalivansky-Caplan • Jenifer Newman • George Niciforos • Michael Nobori • Laura Norton • Jane C. O'Brien • Jamie O'Connor • Roger Ouellette • Daria Paris • Jessica Petelle • Caitlin Pickall • Jeffrey Poliquin • Brooke Posch • Cait Raft • Isabelle Redman • Julie Restivo • Leslie Richter • Kate Riley • Regina R. Robertson • Tom Scarola • Andrea Schell • Jessica Schimmel • Brad Schultze • Christine Shinn • Brandon Showers • Jacqueline Sillo • Morgan Slate • Julie Steddom Smith • Troy Stauffer • Kyle Stegina • Todd Stein • Lisa Stewart • Richard-Kevin Stith • Debra Stolpp • Michelle Torrence • Nick Tschetter • Bonnie Vitti • Karolina Waclawiak • Danielle Weisberg • Cameron Wen • Rachel Wiegman • Lona Williams • Jean Wong • Emma Wright • Jane Yamashita • Alyson Yester • Paul Zerner Other assistants Josh Adler • Eric Anderson • J. Alex Butler • John Chamberlin • Victor Cooke • Allie Crane • Guy DeFazio • Dominic Guzzetti • Rory Hamilton-Battenfeld • Joel Hurwitz • Jesse Kanner • Michael T. Kennedy • Laura Larson • Julie Last • Dave Levy • Daniel Lichtblau • Kristin Long • Larry Malinconico • Danielle Mays • Matt McElaney • Michael John Mollo • Taylor Mondshein • Matt Pabian • Blaine Pearson • Dan Peck • Larisa Perelman • Kira Randolph • Melissa Sahagian • Judi Samuels • Duane Seykora • Bart Stevens • Brett Swain