Roger Allers is a Animation director and Storyboard Artist of Disney animated films. Away from the Disney studio, he directed the animated movie, Open Season for Sony.
He directed the Academy Award winning movie The Lion King, with Rob Minkoff. He was also nominated for a Tony for writing the book of the hit Broadway musical version of "The Lion King". He was a Story Artist on Oliver & Company and The Little Mermaid. And he supervised the story of Beauty and the Beast.
In 2007, Allers received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film for his interpretation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Little Match Girl, a short originally intended for Fantasia 2006.
