Lauren Eve Montgomery (born May 4, 1980) is an American storyboard artist, director, character designer, producer, and writer.
[3] She also worked on the Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow and Hulk Vs animated features, based on Marvel Comics properties by Lions Gate Entertainment.
Her role as executive producer resulted in death threats against her due to the series' final season's controversy around its LGBT characters.
[5] She continued her directorial film career with the studio, directing Green Lantern: First Flight in 2009, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse in 2010, and co-directing Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Batman: Year One alongside Sam Liu.
[6] Montgomery provided storyboard work on eight episodes for season 3 of the original animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino.
She went on to serve as a supervising producer and storyboard artists on all episodes of the sequel series The Legend of Korra.
[8][9] Montgomery has released a sketchbook with comic book/animation artist Eric Canete entitled Beauty and the Beast, published by Black Velvet Studios.