Ward Taylor Pendleton Johnston (born September 23, 1982), known professionally as Pendleton Ward or simply Pen Ward, is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor who has worked for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios, and Netflix Animation. He created the Emmy Award-winning series Adventure Time, the Internet series Bravest Warriors, and the adult animated interview series The Midnight Gospel.

Filmography

• Adventure Time: Side Quests — Writer
• 2026Dirtmouths — Night Groundskeeper
• 2025Adult Swim's The Elephant — Director, Story, Executive Producer
• 2024Mystery Cuddlers — Writer, Director, Storyboard Artist, Executive Producer
• Mystery Cuddlers — Writer, Creator
• Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake — Ellis P / Norm (voice), Ellis P / Old Man Cake / Nerdy Alien (voice), LSP / Ellis P / Norm (voice), Additional Voices (voice), Ellis P / Lumpy Space Princess / Banana Guard #3 (voice), Ellis P / Pickle Reviewer #2 / Norm (voice), Ellis P / Alien Robot (voice), Ellis P / Venusian #2 (voice), Ellis P / Pickle Reviewer #2 (voice), Ellis P (voice), Original Series Creator
• Bee and PuppyCat — Story, Writer
• City of Ghosts — Director, Writer
• Adventure Time: Distant Lands — Lumpy Space Princess / Additional Voices (voice), Creator
• The Midnight Gospel — Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2016Uncle Kent 2 — Main Title Designer
• Bee and PuppyCat — Writer, Sound Director, Editor
• Over the Garden Wall — Writer
• Steven Universe — Writer, Storyboard Artist
• Teen Titans Go! — Characters
• Uncle Grandpa — Uncle Grandpa / Pizza Steve (voice), Writer, Director
• 2012Adventure Time: Fun with Finn and Jake — Lumpy Space Princess (voice)
• Bravest Warriors — Creator
• 2012The Wand — Lumpy Space Princess
• Adventure Time — Lumpy Space Princess (voice), Writer, Executive Producer, Theme Song Performance, Story, Creator
• Random! Cartoons — Abraham Lincoln / Old Man (voice), Director, Writer, Creator
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack — Writer, Storyboard Artist
• 2007Adventure Time — Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Producer's Assistant
• 2007Barrista — Director
• The Simpsons — The Simpsons Theme Song Singer (voice)
• The Adventure Time Movie — Original Series Creator

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025Behind The Elephant — Self
• 2016Good Jubies: The Making of Bad Jubies — Self
• 2014Distant Bands: The Music of Adventure Time — Self
• 2014How an Idea Becomes Adventure Time — Self
• 2014I Know That Voice — Self