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Johanna Stein is a Canadian screenwriter, director, animation showrunner, and actress.

Stein was born and raised inWinnipeg, Manitoba, where she attendedSt. John's High School and theUniversity of Winnipeg. She then relocated to theUnited States to attend theAmerican Film Institute.

As an actress Stein has appeared on TV series includingThe Late Late Show,Curb Your Enthusiasm, andMadagascar: A Little Wild, and in feature films includingShoot or Be Shot andMulholland Drive. As a writer, she has written for TV series, includingOdd Squad,Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny,Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh,Spirit Riding Free,The Emperor's New School,WordGirl,American Dragon: Jake Long,O'Grady,G-Spot, andBreaker High.^[1]

In 2006, Stein was nominated for anAnnie Award for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production forNickelodeon'sO'Grady. In 2015, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Form Animated Program for Disney XD'sWander Over Yonder.

Stein directed and co-producedWe're with the Band (2003), a 30-minutemockumentary that followedAlanis Morissette and her band around the country, and which was subsequently optioned and ordered to pilot byComedy Central.^[2][3]

Stein was Executive Producer and Showrunner onMadagascar: A Little Wild (2018), a 52-episode prequel to DreamWorks’ animated film franchise,Madagascar. The series was noted for its representation of Deaf characters and Deaf culture.^[4][5] The series was nominated the 2022GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Children's Programming.^[6] It was also nominated for and won Kidscreen Awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022.^[7][8][9]

In 2021 it was announced that Stein would develop an animated TV series forDreamWorks Animation based onJimmy Fallon’s children's books,Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada andEverything is Mama.^[10][11]

In 2014 Stein's book,How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane: And Other Lessons in Parenting from a Highly Questionable Source was published byDa Capo Press.^[12][13][14]How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane was optioned by Will Arnett's production company, Electric Avenue, as the basis of a sitcom for theCBS television network.^[15][16]

Stein's comedic essays have been published in theNew York Times,^[17][18]Parents,Jezebel,^[19] and have appeared in anthologies including,Mortified: Love is a Battlefield^[20] andAfterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine.^[21]

Stein wrote, produced, and starred inMomhead, a comedy video which was filmed from a bird's eye view using a GoPro camera mounted on top of Stein's head.^[22][23] The video chronicled all of the ways that Stein's 4-year-old daughter insulted her in a typical day. It received a Silver Pencil award fromThe One Club.^[24]

Momhead was adapted into a short-form series,Jojohead (2016). Stein wrote, produced, and starred in the 18-episode series which was a co-production of Unperfect Productions and Blue Ribbon Content (a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios).^[25][26]Jojohead was released on The CW's streaming platform, CW Seed, and was the first scripted series to be promoted throughInstagram’s Weekly Stories.^[27]

Stein wrote and directedIt's Illogical (2017), a series of short films about sexual assault victim blaming. The PSA's, which were released by then-VP Joe Biden's initiative, It's On Us, received over 15 million views globally, and received a Communication Arts Award of Excellence.^{[28][29][30][31][32]}

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