Allison Abbate is a renowned producer with a career spanning the most innovative animated features in the industry. Born in New York, she relocated to Hollywood in 1989 to start her career at Disney, serving as an artistic coordinator on Tim Burton's cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Abbate then ventured to Paris for The Walt Disney Company to establish their satellite animation studio and co-produce the Academy Award-nominated Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain.
In 1996, she joined Warner Bros. where she co-produced the international hit feature Space Jam, combining classic animated Warner Bros. characters with live-action sequences. This film, headlined by Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan, and Bill Murray, broke new ground in animated features.
Her subsequent success earned her a BAFTA award in 1999 as producer of Brad Bird's internationally acclaimed Iron Giant, an adaptation of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes' acclaimed children's book, The Iron Man.
Abbate followed up her success on Iron Giant by producing Looney Tunes Back in Action, another family comedy which teamed Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck with Brendan Fraser and Steve Martin. She then relocated to London in 2004 to produce the haunting musical feature, Corpse Bride, with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, and director Tim Burton. Corpse Bride was also nominated for an Oscar in 2005.
In 2006, she collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson to produce the stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's story, Fantastic Mr. Fox, featuring the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep.
Currently, Allison has reunited with Tim Burton to produce Frankenweenie, a stop-motion animated feature based on a live-action short from Tim's early career.
