Nathan Shawn "Nate" Cash (born March 31, 1976) is an American writer, artist and director. He was born in Utah, and his most well-known works are SpongeBob SquarePants, Adventure Time, and Over the Garden Wall. In addition to that, he has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction in an Animated Program" in 2012.^[1][2]

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Cash began his career on The Simpsons as a character layout artist. He started working at Cartoon Network Studios on The Powerpuff Girls and was later a storyboard artist on My Gym Partner's a Monkey. He was a writer and storyboard director on the biggest hit from Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants, from 2006 to 2011.^[3][4][5] After he left SpongeBob, he became a storyboard supervisor on Adventure Time in Season 2 and later creative director. He left Adventure Time at the end of Season 5 completely to work on the miniseries Over the Garden Wall as a creative director alongside Bert Youn, created by another former creative director of the same show named Patrick McHale. Following his leave from Adventure Time, he was replaced by Andres Salaff.^[6]