ND Stevenson

ND Stevenson
Born	December 31, 1991 (33 years old)
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Maryland Institute College of Art
Known for	Nimona (creator) Lumberjanes (co-writer) Wander Over Yonder (writer, background painter) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (writer, showrunner, actor)

To avoid confusion: As of 6/30/22, Nate has announced he uses he/him pronouns!!

ND Stevenson is an American cartoonist and animation producer, as well as the showrunner, developer, and executive producer of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Description

ND is the showrunner, developer, and executive producer of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, as well as the voice of Spinnerella in the series. He is also well-known as the creator of Nimona and is a co-writer for Lumberjanes.

Written Episodes

• "The Sword Part 1"
• "The Sword Part 2"
• "Razz"
• "Promise"
• "The Battle of Bright Moon"
• "Remember"
• "Hero" (co-written with Josie Campbell)
• "Save the Cat"
• "Heart Part 2"

Education

Stevenson attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and graduated from MICA in 2013.

Career

In the summer of 2012, Stevenson interned at BOOM! Studios and later helped develop and write Lumberjanes. Also in 2012, soon after posting the first few installments of Nimona online, he signed with HarperCollins to publish Nimona.

He also did freelance illustration for Random House, St. Martin's Press, and Label Magazine. He has also worked with Ryan North on his Kickstarter-funded book To Be or Not to Be, a choose-your-own-adventure book based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. He also served as a writer and background painter for Season Two of Wander Over Yonder.

He worked as a writer for Marvel Comics, and he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of Critical Role. In 2016, he became the executive producer, showrunner, editor, and actor on DreamWorks Animation Television's reboot of She-Ra. In 2015, he started working on the show's "bible," eventually becoming head showrunner and executive producer.

In March of 2020, Stevenson released a graphic memoir about his life leading up to his late 20s called "The Fire Never Goes Out."

Personal Life

ND grew up in North Carolina, United States, with his parents and siblings. In July of 2018, he was engaged to fellow cartoonist Lee Ostertag, and they were married in September of 2019.

On July 14, 2020, Stevenson came out as nonbinary.

On June 30, 2022, he posted a comic about solely going by he/him pronouns and choosing the names Nate and Indy. He still professionally uses "ND," but he identifies as "not [entirely] a boy."

Trivia

• Stevenson voices Spinnerella on the show, as well as the voice message for Serenia in "Return to the Fright Zone."
• Lee Ostertag, Stevenson's spouse, originally came up with the idea that Etheria is a weapon.

  

  ND Stevenson (right) and Lee Ostertag (left) in "Princess Prom"

• In the episode "Princess Prom," he and his then-fiancé appeared as cameos. He appeared again in the Season Four episode, "Coronation."

Finn, the non-canon future child of Catra and Adora drawn by ND Stevenson

• During a Twitch livestream, Stevenson and his husband created "Finn," a non-canon nonbinary child of Adora and Catra. When asked to draw what Catra and Adora's future child would look like, ND made Finn a blonde and blue-eyed cat person. He has mentioned that they dyed their hair blonde to look more like Adora. Their coloring is slightly lighter brown compared to Catra's. Stevenson mentions that because of Catra and Adora's upbringing, they tended to spoil Finn but were also overbearing, which causes Finn to rebel against them often.
• He has said that the characters he relates to most are Adora, Catra, and Glimmer.
• His favorite episode of the original '80s She-Ra is "Flowers for Hordak."
• While he has stated many things as trivia about the show, ND Stevenson also notes that he and other crew members can just say whatever they want and will sometimes say things just to mess with fans, and that his word does not have to be taken as definitive canon.
• In a June 2020 livestream, Stevenson revealed he had posted a secret fanfiction on Archive of Our Own (Ao3). Aided by his hints, fans concluded that the fanfiction was most likely "Don't Go" by the user Annacharlier, a Catradora-centric one-shot that takes place after "Save the Cat." In 2025, Stevenson's novel Scarlet Morning was released, and in it, there is a shipwreck with the name Anna Charlier, confirming the fanfic is his.
  

Bibliography

Graphic Novels

• Nimona (w/a, HarperCollins, 2015)
• The Fire Never Goes Out (graphic memoir)

Novels

• Scarlet Morning

BOOM! Studios

The Sweater Bandit Desert Treasure

Lumberjanes #1–17 Sleepy Hollow 4 #1–4

Marvel Comics

• Runaways vol. 4 #1–4
• Thor Annual #1, April 2015, collected in Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer?

DC Comics

• Wonder World; Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #23 & 24, February 2015

Awards and Nominations

ND Stevenson has won many awards and nominations, all summed up on his Wikipedia page.

She-Ra Art

See: Crew Art by ND Stevenson