Career Early work ĭuring her time at the School of Visual Arts, Sugar directed short animated films, including Johnny Noodleneck (2008).
Īccording to Sugar's father Rob, Rebecca Sugar and her younger brother Steven were raised with what he called ' Jewish sensibilities', and both siblings observe the lighting of Hanukkah candles with their parents via Skype. She went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York. 'The Strip' ran a comic challenging MCPS's new grading policy from 2005. While at Blair, she drew several comics (called 'The Strip' for the school's newspaper, Silver Chips) which won first place for comics in the Newspaper Individual Writing and Editing Contest. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award), both of which are located in Maryland.
She simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was an arts semifinalist in the Presidential Scholar competition, and won Montgomery County's prestigious Ida F. Sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland.
