Rie Koga (she/her) spent seven years in Japan's animation and video game industry as a storyboard artist and a director before moving to the US in 2011. She started working as a storyboard artist on TMNT (2012) and later became an episode director. Furthermore, she directed a short film titled 'Turtles Take Time (and Space)' as a part of Nickelodeon's TMNT shorts project. She was nominated for an Outstanding Main Title and Graphic Design as part of the crew. She has worked on action-comedy series like Voltron: Legendary Defender at DreamWorks TV, Big Hero 6 at Disney TVA, and Maya and the Three at Netflix. She recently stepped into the role of Head of Story for her very first feature film, ULTRAMAN: RISING, courtesy of Netflix.