meet SOME Of Our
Award-Winning Story Team

Robert Lence has been a major contributor on some of the most famous and successful films in the history of animated features at Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks. His work includes such all-time hit films as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Shrek.

 

Robert served as Co-Head of Story on Pixar's original Toy Story, the first-ever computer animated feature film. He was one of the story co-creators of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

 

In his thirty-year career, Robert has worked as a Director, Head of Story, Screenwriter, Visual Development Artist, Storyboard Artist and Story Consultant, helping create original characters, writing dialogue and shaping the story on over a dozen major-release animated features.

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A graduate of the University of Michigan, Robert also attended the California Institute of the Arts’ highly renowned Character Animation program for two years. He still serves as an Animation Story Professor and Story Consultant at Cal Arts.

 

A native of New York City, Robert has worked, taught and lectured on animation in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Rome, Czech Republic, Russia, China, South Korea, Mexico, and Uruguay.

Charlotte began her career in the publishing industry as the founder of Towne Publishing & Advertising Company. As publisher, she produced award-winning business and city publications that were known for their innovative fusing of form and content. They were regarded as some of the finest in the United States and Canada. In addition, Towne had a footprint in the newspaper industry and produced films for the Bahamas government.

 

Her career took a definitive turn when she came across an amazing true story that stole

everyone’s heart and led her into the world of animation. She proceeded to write an original screenplay and together with a team she formed from Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks. They further developed the story and a corresponding children’s TV series, with a worldwide merchandising plan.

 

A graduate of the University of Miami with a degree in finance, Charlotte is strongly

committed to community service and has served on many boards. Some of her honors

include “The World Who’s Who of Women for Publishing,” “Who’s Who Directory for

Finance,” “Who’s Who of American Woman,” to name a few.