Shannon Stein

Shannon Stein is an American film editor best known for editing the 2017 animated film Lix by Universal Animation Studios. She joined Universal in 2015 as an associate editor on the studio's 2017 animated film Imagimals.

Before joining Universal, Stein worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where she served as an avid assistant editor on Brother Bear and associate editor on Bolt, Tangled, and Big Hero 6. She also worked on the shorts The Cat That Looked at a King, Super Rhino and Inner Workings as well as MGM's Upside Mystery 3 and Fox's Little Lily.

Career
In early 2000s, Stein first joined Walt Disney Feature Animation where she served as avid assistant editor of Brother Bear as well as associate editor of Bolt and Tangled. She made her main editorial debut in the Disney animated short Super Rhino. Besides working on Disney's Big Hero 6 (where she is uncredited) and another Disney short Inner Workings, she co-edited with Kent Beyda on the Fox Animation film Little Lily, which was released on March 23, 2012, and later went on to take over Catherine Apple's duties on Upside Mystery 3 for MGM, which was released on September 4, 2015. Stein recalled her editorial experience for Upside Mystery 3: "It was pretty ambitious. [Catherine] Apple would thank me for giving her credit while she was working on editing Hotel Transylvania 2 for Sony Pictures Animation."

After working on Upside Mystery 3 and Inner Workings, Stein joined Universal Animation to begin serving as editor for their films with Imagimals (where she serves as associate editor). In 2017, she also edited the short film Busho's Guide to Cool Things as well as Lix. In 2019, she edited Paradoria 2, the Universal animated sequel to the biggest 2015 film Paradoria. While working at Universal, she continues to work at Disney on their 2018 animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet as additional editorial support and co-edited with Fabienne Rawley on their 2021 animated film Raya and the Last Dragon.