Lauren Faust

Lauren Faust (born March 10th, 1974) is an American animator, who war born in San Jose. She grew up in Severna Park, a suburb of Annapolis, Maryland. She studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

She was a story artist since Season 3 of The Powerpuff Girls and head writer on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends [2]. She also is the creator of the preteen girls' web site Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls. She has received an Emmy in 2008 for her work on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More), four Emmy nominations (two for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and two for her work on the Powerpuff Girls), and one Annie nomination for her work on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.[3]

Most recently, she developed along with Hasbro their current incarnation of the company's My Little Pony property, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Seeking to address her concerns with the franchise's sexist stereotypes and poor writing standards, Faust endeavored to create a version that had sophisticated writing with more nuanced characters.[4]. As a result, the series proved to be a major success with not only the young female primary audience, but it also gained a significant adult and teen male following for the girl oriented franchise popularly called "Bronies," which attracted considerable mainstream media attention itself.[5]. Faust announced her decision to step down from Executive Producer to Consulting Producer on May 8, 2011 after the first season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Her next announced project is Super Best Friends Forever, a series of animated shorts for the television series, DC Nation, featuring the female DC Comics superheroines, Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Girl.[6] She will be working on Craig McCracken's new TV show Wander Over Yonder as a co-producer and story editor.

Faust is married to Craig McCracken who created The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.