Elizabeth Ito is supervising director on the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time. Born in Santa Monica, CA, to an elementary school teacher/wedding singer and a mathematician-aerospace engineer/ photographer, Ito is no stranger to creativity. She graduated from the prestigious Character Animation programme at California Institute of the Arts and earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Philosophy from UCLA. In addition to her work at Cartoon Network, Ito has held positions at a number of top Hollywood studios including Sony and Walt Disney. She won the Producer's Choice Award at the Nicktoons Film Festival (2004) and was nominated for the Student Academy Award, Peers Pick, at CalArts Producer’s Show (2004).