Meg LeFauve

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Meg LeFauve
Born (1969-10-19) October 19, 1969 (age 54)
Alma mater Syracuse University
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • film producer
Years active1998–present
SpouseJoe Forte
Children2

Meg LeFauve (born October 19, 1969) is an American screenwriter and film producer. She is best known for writing her screenplays of the Pixar animated films Inside Out (2015) and its upcoming sequel Inside Out 2 (2024), and The Good Dinosaur (2015). For her work on Inside Out, LeFauve was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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Early life

LeFauve was raised in Warren, Ohio, and attended Syracuse University. [1]

Career

LeFauve began her film career as a president and producer of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films that were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, 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 Kieran Culkin, Jodie Foster and Vincent D'Onofrio, the film opened to rave reviews and won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature. [2]

LeFauve was a mentor at Meryl Streep's writer's lab, and is currently a consultant to Screen New South Wales, Screen Australia, and Film Victoria. 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 UCLA'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 give seminars from time to time.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing the script for Pixar's Inside Out (2015), and set return to co-write the script along with Dave Holstein and Jon Zack for the upcoming sequel Inside Out 2 (2024). [3] [4] [5] She was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards in 1999 for producing The Baby Dance. [6] She also produced the 2002 film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys . [7] 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). [8]

Podcast

Meg LeFauve co-hosts a Podcast, The Screenwriting Life w/ Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna. [9] 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 Ed Solomon, 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, [10] FilmCon's Top 10 Recommended Filmmaking Podcasts., [11] and Podcast Magazine's Top 8 Must-Listen Podcasts For Screenwriters. [12]

Personal life

LeFauve is married to filmmaker Joe Forte. [13]

Filmography

YearFilmCredited as
WriterProducerOtherNotes
1998 The Baby Dance NoYesNo
2000 Waking the Dead NoNoYesSpecial thanks
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys NoYesNo
2010–2011 Gigantic YesNoNo3 episodes: "Perfect Complications"
"Carpe Diem"
"Back to Normal"
2015 Inside Out YesNoNo Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay
Oddball YesNoNoScript editor
The Good Dinosaur YesNoNoNominated – Golden Globe
2016 Finding Dory NoNoYesSpecial thanks
The Man Who Saved Ben-Hur NoNoYesSpecial thanks
2018 Incredibles 2 NoNoYesSpecial thanks
2019 Captain Marvel StoryNoNo
2020 Onward StoryNoNoAdditional story material
2022 My Father's Dragon YesYesNo
2024 Inside Out 2 YesNoNo
2025 The Twits YesNoNo

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