Lauren Hunter MacMullan (born April 30, 1964) is an American animation director.

After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons.

She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show.

MacMullan was a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie, and in 2009 she was a member of the Pixar team working on the animated film Newt[1] prior to its cancellation.

[3] With Get a Horse!, she became the first woman to solely direct a Disney animated film (short-length or feature-length).