Nathan Greno is an American film director, story artist and writer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the co-director of the 2010 animated film Tangled.
Inspired by Disney films since the first grade, Greno started as a young boy writing and drawing comic books and strips. In 1996, during his junior year at Columbus College of Art and Design, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation. He started there as an animation cleaner on Mulan. Being creatively unfulfilled, he switched to story development. He then contributed as a story artist on Brother Bear, wrote a screenplay and worked as a story artist on Meet the Robinsons, and supervised the story on Bolt. With the short film Super Rhino (2009), he made his directorial debut. In 2006, he took over a long-in-development project Tangled, and chose Byron Howard, with whom he had collaborated on Bolt and Super Rhino, as a directing partner. The film was released in 2010 to a great critical and financial reception, and was followed in 2012 by Greno and Howard-directed short film Tangled Ever After.
Nathan or Natan may refer to:
Nathan is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Hebrew verb נתן meaning to give (standard Hebrew Natan, Yiddish Nussen or Nosson, Tiberian Hebrew Nāṯān). The meaning of the name in Jewish culture could be rendered "he [God] has given" or "he will give".
The related name Elnathan could be rendered "Gift of God". Four different people named Elnathan are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible: one at 2 Kings 24:8, and three in Ezra 8:15–20. Similar ancient names are Nathaniel, with the same meaning as Elnathan, and Jonathan which signifies "God has given". Nathan can also be used as a nickname for Nathaniel.
Familiar forms of Nathan used in English include Nat, Nath, Nate and Nathaniel.
Nathan is a surname derived from Hebrew נתן meaning Given or Gift from God(standard Hebrew Natan, Yiddish Nussen or Nosson, Tiberian Hebrew Nāṯān).