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= Alan Schoolcraft = Alan Schoolcraft is an American film and television writer, best known for co-writing the feature films Megamind and The Penguins of Madagascar.

Life and Career
Early life and education.

Born in Groton, Connecticut, Schoolcraft graduated from Robert E. Fitch Senior High School before attending Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut and Emerson College in Boston, where he met his longtime writing partner Brent Simons.

After college, Schoolcraft moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. He began his film career as a receptionist for Working Title Films and then as the personal assistant to Joel and Ethan Coen in New York, taking freelance writing jobs as they came. After returning to Los Angeles to to write full time, he and his partner sold Megamind as a speculative to Dreamworks Animation in 2007. The film was released in 2010. That was followed by The Penguins of Madagascar in 2014.

Since then he has sold scripts and taken writing assignments to all the major studios in Hollywood.