Meghan McCarthy is an American

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, film and television producer, and creative executive best known as the showrunner of the animated television show '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''. She is also known for her work on '' Class of 3000'' and ''

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''. Since June 2015, she has been the Head of Storytelling for the entire

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and Littlest Pet Shop brands, helping to "create expansive worlds and characters". McCarthy was a part of the original ''Friendship Is Magic'' crew, and was promoted as showrunner and story editor during season 2 after the departure of series creator and previous showrunner

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. Overall, she was directly involved in the writing of 35 episodes, and wrote the lyrics of 25 songs featured in the show; she also wrote the screenplays and lyrics of the spin-off films '' My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'' and '' My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks'', and '' My Little Pony: The Movie''.

Career

In October 2010, she was invited by

, the co-creator and producer for ''

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'', to help write on

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's television revival of its ''My Little Pony'' franchise. McCarthy, on a writing hiatus at the time, was inspired to accept by Faust's dedication and the strong female characterization she had presented. In 2011, Faust left the show after the two-part season two premiere, and McCarthy was promoted to co-executive producer for its third season onward; she also served as the show's story editor. In early June 2015, Hasbro promoted McCarthy to become the company's new "Head of Storytelling" for their brands, ''My Little Pony'' and ''Littlest Pet Shop''; her role will be to help "create expansive worlds and characters" across these brands, according to Hasbro's executive vice president Stephen Davis. In addition, McCarthy has written and helped produce the spin-off films, '' My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'' and its

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. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Original Song - Children's and Animation" for her lyrics in the ''Friendship Is Magic'' episode "Sweet and Elite". On November 3, 2017,

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and

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extended their relationship with an exclusive five year production deal for Allspark Pictures and Allspark Animation for original and toy based films. Both Allspark units are newly formed (Allspark Pictures formerly was a financing label) with the film unit head by Greg Mooradian and the animation unit head by Meghan McCarthy. Paramount and Hasbro would also work together on TV series. Following Hasbro’s purchase of

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in 2019, though, Allspark would later close down and be absorbed into the newly-acquired production company.

Filmography

Television

''Friendship is Magic'' detailed writing credits

Film

''My Little Pony'' lyric credits

References

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