Meg LeFauve (born October 19, 1969) is an American screenwriter and film producer. She is best known for writing the screenplays for the

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animated films '' Inside Out'' (2015), its sequel ''

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'' (2024), and '' The Good Dinosaur'' (2015), the former being nominated for the

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Early life

LeFauve was raised in

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, and attended

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Career

LeFauve began her film career as a president and producer of Egg Pictures,

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's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films that were nominated for an

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, a

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, and was awarded a Peabody for Jane Anderson's Showtime film, '' The Baby Dance''. LeFauve produced '' The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys'' for Egg Pictures. Starring

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, Jodie Foster and Vincent D'Onofrio, the film opened to rave reviews and won the 2003 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. LeFauve was a mentor at Meryl Streep's writer's lab, and is currently a consultant to Screen New South Wales,

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, and

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. She has mentored at the Sundance Creative Producer Lab and is a board member and returning participant at CineStory Script Sessions. LeFauve has taught at AFI and served as co-chair of the Graduate Producers Program at

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's School of Film and Television, where she taught master level story and development classes for over seven years. LeFauve also has been known to giv
seminars
from time to time. She was nominated for the

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for

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for co-writing the script for

's '' Inside Out'' (2015), and returned to co-write the script along with Dave Holstein for the sequel ''

'' (2024). She was nominated for

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in 1999 for producing ''The Baby Dance''. She also produced the 2002 film '' The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys''. She also wrote the script for another Pixar film '' The Good Dinosaur'' (2015) which was nominated for a Golden Globe. LeFauve received a "story by" credit on the live action '' Captain Marvel'' movie (2019).

Podcast

Meg LeFauve co-hosts a Podcast
The Screenwriting Life w/ Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
The show, co-hosted by writer Lorien McKenna and producer Jeffrey Crane Graham, is dedicated to unpacking both the craft and artistic journey of pursuing a career in screenwriting. Featured guests include

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, Anne Lamott, Mike Jones, and Bonnie Curtis, among others. The show was cited as one of Feedspot's ''Top 25 Screenwriting Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021'', FilmCon's ''Top 10 Recommended Filmmaking Podcasts.'', and Podcast Magazine's ''Top 8 Must-Listen Podcasts For Screenwriters.''

Personal life

LeFauve is married to filmmaker Joe Forte.

Filmography

References

External links

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