Dave Filoni

Dave Filoni (born June 7, 1974) is an American animation director, voice actor, television writer, television producer, film director, and animator. He is most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He is also an executive producer on Star Wars Rebels for all seasons, and for the first 2 seasons he served as its supervising director. Justin Ridge succeeded him as supervising director in September 2016 when Filoni accepted a promotion to oversee all of Lucasfilm Animation projects. 2Early life Dave Filoni grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Mt. Lebanon High School in 1992 and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Dave's father was an opera and a classical music fan, according to composer Kevin Kiner (who did most of the music for Filoni's Star Wars animated series The Clone Wars and Rebels); as such, he inherited appreciation for classical music and helped with the collaboration process, with Kiner crediting Dave for suggesting the organ in Grand Admiral Thrawn's theme from Rebels. Filoni has also said that his grandfather and uncle were pilots, with the latter specializing in restoring plane