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Irene began her association with Disney in March 1992, when she wrote Recycle Rex, the 1994 Environmental Media Award-winning animated short. Irene shares a screenplay credit on Disney’s animated features The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules.
In March 1992, Mecchi began her association with Disney, when she wrote an animated educational short called Recycle Rex. The short film encouraged younger viewers to "recycle, reduce and reuse" waste materials.
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Irene Mecchi is an American writer who has written for print, television, film, and theatre. Her feature film writing credits include Disney's The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules.
Mecchi was born in the third generation of her family that lived in San Francisco, California. She later received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and continued her studies at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. As she began to start her career, her aspirations to direct theater led her to the renowned American Conservatory Theater (ACT), where her instructor, Second City alumnus Joy Carlin, was impressed with her writing and encouraged her to pursue it on a full-time basis.
Her first work began when she wrote a series of children's programs for Nickelodeon such as By the Way. Mecchi's first network writing assignment was on the Emmy Award-winning Lily Tomlin special, Lily: Sold Out. Her later television credits also include Valerie, The Popcorn Kid, and a season as staff writer on My Sister Sam. Along with that, Mecchi researched and wrote a play drawn from 50 years of legendary newspaper columnist Herb Caen's witty observations of San Francisco. The play was "work-shopped" at ACT and led Mecchi to edit two books of Caen writings, which were published in 1992 and 1993.
Finally, Mecchi began her association with Disney in March 1992, when she wrote a 10-minute animated short called "Recycle Rex." That short film encouraged younger viewers to "recycle, reduce and reuse" waste materials. During the summer of 1992, Mecchi was brought on board to help further develop the characters and define their personalities. Several months later, she was joined by Jonathan Roberts in the rewriting process of the screenplay. Together, both writers tackled the difficult unresolved emotional issues in the script, which created Timon, Pumbaa, and the hyenas. One example of her touch on the film was when she added the moment when Rafiki hits Simba's head after the visitation of his father.
After the success of The Lion King, she signed to co-write the screenplay of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which reunited her with Lion King producer, Don Hahn) and Hercules. Also, she reteamed with Roger Allers to co-write the book for the musical adaptation of The Lion King, to which they were nominated a Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical. She would later reteam again with Allers to contribute additional screenplay material to The Lion King 1½.
1.The Lion King: Film Notes.
2.Irene Mecchi - Stanford Center on Longevity. Stanford Center on Longevity..
3.By The Way- Ultra-rare/lost Nickelodeon show from 1979, Intro & Host Segments on YouTube. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
4.The Lion King: Platinum Edition (Disc 2), Story Origins
5.Schavemaker, Peter (June 11, 2013). An Interview From Abroad with Brenda Chapman. Animation. Retrieved on May 20, 2017.
6.Failes, Ian (September 26, 2016). Life After Pixar: An Interview with Brenda Chapman. Cartoon Brew. Retrieved on May 20, 2017.
•Irene Mecchi on Wikipedia
•Irene Mecchi at the Internet Movie Database
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the 1831 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and produced by Don Hahn, from a screenplay written by Tab Murphy ...
Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology.
Feb 10, 2023 · Linda Woolverton served as one of Mecchi’s co-writers, and had made history a year earlier as the first woman to write an animated feature for Disney with “Beauty and the Beast.” (She went on...
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Irene began her association with Disney in March 1992, when she wrote Recycle Rex, an animated short, which won the 1994 Environmental Media Award. Irene is a co-writer of Disney’s animated features The Lion King , The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules .
