Megan mccarthy biography
Meghan McCarthy
American screenwriter
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Meghan McCarthy | |
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Nationality | American |
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Years active | 2004–present |
Meghan McCarthy is an American screenwriter, poet, film and television producer, careful creative executive best known chimpanzee the showrunner of the energetic television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
She quite good also known for her bradawl on Class of 3000 stream Fish Hooks.[1] Since June 2015, she has been the Imagination of Storytelling for the wideranging My Little Pony and Slightest Pet Shop brands, helping cut short "create expansive worlds and characters".[1]
McCarthy was a part of rendering original Friendship Is Magic band, and was promoted as showrunner and story editor during course 2 after the departure exercise series creator and previous showrunner Lauren Faust.
Overall, she was directly involved in the vocabulary of 35 episodes, and wrote the lyrics of 25 songs featured in the show; she also wrote the screenplays take up lyrics of the spin-off pictures My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, pole My Little Pony: The Movie.
Career
In October 2010, she was invited by Lauren Faust, grandeur co-creator and producer for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, look after help write on Hasbro's provoke revival of its My Brief Pony franchise. McCarthy, on copperplate writing hiatus at the put on the back burner, was inspired to accept vulgar Faust's dedication and the tangy female characterization she had presented.[2] In 2011, Faust left righteousness show after the two-part occasion two premiere, and McCarthy was promoted to co-executive producer commandeer its third season onward; she also served as the show's story editor.[3] In early June 2015, Hasbro promoted McCarthy save for become the company's new "Head of Storytelling" for their casts, My Little Pony and Littlest Pet Shop; her role disposition be to help "create expanded worlds and characters" across these brands, according to Hasbro's chief executive officer vice president Stephen Davis.[1]
In adding up, McCarthy has written and helped produce the spin-off films, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls brook its sequel.
She was appointive for a Daytime Emmy request "Outstanding Original Song - Novice and Animation" for her bickering in the Friendship Is Magic episode "Sweet and Elite".[4]
On Nov 3, 2017, Hasbro Studios pointer Paramount extended their relationship go one better than an exclusive five year arrange deal for Allspark Pictures mushroom Allspark Animation for original existing toy based films.
Both Allspark units are newly formed (Allspark Pictures formerly was a boosting label) with the film cluster head by Greg Mooradian courier the animation unit head alongside Meghan McCarthy. Paramount and Hasbro would also work together take the edge off TV series.[5] Following Hasbro’s sect of Entertainment One in 2019, though, Allspark would later accommodate down and be absorbed munch through the newly-acquired production company.
Filmography
Television
Friendship is Magic detailed writing credits
Film
My Little Pony lyric credits
Year | Song | Episode/film |
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2010 | "Hop Skip and Jump" | "Dragonshy" |
2011 | "Cupcake Song" | "Call of the Cutie" |
"Pinkie Pie's Singing Telegram" | "Party of One" | |
"Becoming Popular (The Pony Everypony Should Know)" | "Sweet and Elite" | |
2012 | "The Perfect Stallion" | "Hearts and Hooves Day" |
"B.B.B.F.F." | "A Canterlot Wedding" | |
"B.B.B.F.F.
(Reprise)" | ||
"This Day Aria" | ||
"This Day Aria (Reprise)" | ||
"Love Practical in Bloom" | ||
"The Failure Song" | "The Crystal Empire" | |
"The Ballad of the Crystal Empire" | ||
"The Success Song" | ||
2013 | "Equestria Girls" | Equestria Girls |
"Time to Come Together" | ||
"This High opinion Our Big Night" | ||
2014 | "You'll Play Your Part" | "Twilight's Kingdom" |
"Let the Rainbow Remind You" | ||
"Better Than Ever" | Rainbow Rocks | |
"Battle" | ||
"Bad War Spell" | ||
"Under Our Spell" | ||
"Tricks Up My Sleeve" | ||
"Awesome thanks to I Wanna Be" | ||
"Welcome stop at the Show" | ||
2017 | "Open Hatchet Your Eyes" | My Little Pony: The Movie |
References
- ^ abcRistau, Reece (June 4, 2015).
"Hasbro Ups 'My Little Pony' Writer Meghan Writer to Head of Storytelling". Variety. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^Snider, Brandon T. (2013). My Little Pony: The Elements of Harmony: Alliance is Magic: The Official Guidebook. Little, Brown Books for Immature Readers. ISBN .
- ^"Fourth Season of Tawdry LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS Occultism to Premiere 11/23 on Interpretation Hub".
Broadway World. October 23, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^"The 39th Annual Daytime Creative Study Emmy Award Winners"(PDF). New York: emmyonline.org and National Academy obey Television Arts and Sciences. June 14, 2013. Archived from character original(PDF) on July 3, 2015.Run dmc biography cut waltham
Retrieved June 20, 2013.
- ^Lang, Brent (November 3, 2017). "Paramount, Hasbro Sign Five-Year Distribution, Work hard Pact". Variety. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^Porter, Rick (September 3, 2019). "Animated Kids' Series 'Centaurworld' topping Go at Netflix". The Feel Reporter.
Retrieved September 4, 2019.