Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987), is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter. She is known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network. Sugar was formerly a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time, until 2013. Her work on the two series has earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

For her work on Steven Universe, Sugar was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Short-format Animation for the episodes "Lion 3: Straight to Video" in 2015, "The Answer" in 2016, "Mr. Greg" in 2017 and "Jungle Moon" in 2018.

In 2017, Steven Universe was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards, the goal of the awards is to "[recognize] the most inclusive and accurately portrayed representations of the LGBTQ community in film, television, and other platforms"

In July 2016, Sugar said at a San Diego Comic-Con panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman. In a July 2018 interview on NPR, Sugar said that she created the series's Gems as "non-binary women" in order to express herself, as a non-binary woman, through them.

Rebecca Sugar (Silver Spring, Maryland, 9 de julho de 1987) é uma animadora, compositora e diretora norte-americana. Ela estudou na School of Visual Arts de Nova Yorque. É mais conhecida por ser uma escritora e artista de storyboard na série de televisão animada Hora de Aventura, antes de Hora de Aventura, Rebecca já havia lançado alguns outros trabalhos, como o curta de animação “Singles”, feito quando ainda era estudante , seu primeiro episodio da serie como artista de storyboard foi o episodio Veio da Noitosfera lançado em 2010 . além de ser criadora da série Steven Universo, que estreou no Cartoon Network em novembro de 2013.