Colleen McAllister

Colleen McAllister is a writer and film & TV executive in Los Angeles. Passionate about telling animated stories, she has worked as Director of Current Series at Hasbro Studios driving creative on the broadcast, digital, and publishing platforms for their major TV franchises. Her credits include MY LITTLE PONY: EQUESTRIA GIRLS, MICRONAUTS, LITTLEST PET SHOP and HANAZUKI. She has worked as a Creative Executive and Producer for Illumination Entertainment on the MINIONS franchise, SECRET LIFE OF PETS, SING and THE GRINCH. Her original pilot, PUSSIES, an adult animated comedy about cats, was selected for the HBO sponsored 2016 WIF|Blacklist TV lab. She is a contributing author to the lifestyle magazine, Bella Grace and is currently head writer on an unannounced Netflix animated series slated to air in 2021. Colleen has her B.S. in Television Radio & Video Production from Ithaca College and her M.F.A in Motion Picture Producing from the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Producing Program. She hails from blustery Upstate New York and lived abroad in Ireland and thus has an above-average ability to survive cold temperatures and make Irish Coffee.