Gina Shay has over 25 years of experience producing animated films, which includes a full decade of films and specials for DreamWorks Animation. She produced Trolls Band Together, and most recently produced Trolls World Tour In addition to developing and producing Trolls and Trolls World Tour, she produced the box-office hit Shrek Forever After, the fourth installment of the wildly successful Shrek franchise.

Her list of shorts include Shrek the Halls, Shrek’s first-ever original animated holiday special, and aired to an enthusiastic response in November of 2007 on ABC.    

Before joining DreamWorks Animation, Gina spent another decade producing for Paramount Pictures serving as executive producer of The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. She was also the co-producer on Paramount Pictures’ and Nickelodeons Movies’ first CG Oscar®-nominated animated feature film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.  Prior to that she was the line producer on the highly acclaimed, award-winning, CG animated feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, where her responsibilities included putting together a digital animation studio in just two months’ time in order to accommodate the feature’s demanding production schedule.

Gina began her professional career in filmmaking as a production manager on Ralph Bakshi’s and Paramount Pictures’ feature film Cool World. She then moved on to Disney to serve as associate producer on two films, Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin and Pocahontas: Journey to a New World.   She also worked on the virtual attraction The Spiderman Ride for Universal Studios Theme Park. 

Gina attended Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, New York.