Jayson Thiessen

Jayson Thiessen (Birth Date: December 30, 1976) is a Canadian animator and animation director known for his direction of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.

Outside of MLP, Thiessen worked on Jetix's Pucca animated series, as well as Ed, Edd N Eddy and George of the Jungle, as well as his animated web short series, Mr. Obtuse + Cube Cat

He was working on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic from Season 1 to the first half of Season 5, as well as being co-executive producer for Seasons Four and Five. Also he directed the two Equestria Girls movies, and also was a consulting director for both Friendship Games and the second half of Season 5 before working on the 2017 movie.

Outside of FiM and EqG, He is formerly the supervising director alongside Hiroyuki Imaishi and Atsushi Nishigori for Season 1, as well as chief animation director with Titmouse animator, McKenzie Kerman, and executive producer alongside Greg Weisman, Aaron Montalvo, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Avi Arad. As of Season 2, he becomes consulting director and executive creative consultant alongside Montalvo as he works on the MLP movie.

Although not an established company, Thiessen's production company outside of DHX was GoldenRusset Productions, a "company" that did the web series and was credited at the end.