Alex Kirwan is an Emmy award-winning designer, art director, writer, visual development artist, and producer who has worked in the animation industry for over twenty years. Raised by artistic, cartoon-nerd parents who regularly projected classic animation over his crib, Alex left his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota for Los Angeles after placing in a Hanna-Barbera sponsored storyboard contest that he was technically too young to enter. Alex started working at that studio at age 18, and in the two decades since, he has worked at Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Warner Bros. on over a dozen series, and in a variety of capacities. He isn't sure which he loves more: helping quirky, original projects make a unique visual statement, as he did through his art direction on such shows as "My Life as a Teenage Robot" for Nickelodeon, and on Craig McCracken's "Wander Over Yonder" for Disney, or helping to breathe new life into beloved classic characters, as he did with his design-work on the award winning "Mickey Mouse Shorts", and on the new "Duck Tales" series, and recently served as supervising producer on "Looney Tunes Cartoons". He has been nominated for five Annie awards and three Emmy awards from the television academy, with one primetime Emmy win for his work on the Cartoon Network series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends". Alex taught character design at the California Institute of the Arts for four years. Alex and his wife, Nickelodeon art director Leticia Lacy, live in Burbank, where they are raising their two talented children, Nightingale and Enzo, in the proud family tradition of cartoon nerd-dom.