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Anthony King

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Anthony King is a writer, director, and performer currently living in Los Angeles.

He co-wrote the Off-Broadway show, GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!, which also enjoyed a run in Off-West End in London and is now being performed all over the world. The show received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle & Drama Desk Award Nominations, and won a NYMF Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing (Book).

Stage performance credits include Anthony's solo shows, Chosen (NYC International Fringe Festival) and DAY 8: Take Complete Control (UCBT), as well as the original cast of GUTENBERG!

On the TV, Anthony has been featured on MTV's Human Giant, Late Night w/Conan O'Brien, Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn, and many commercials. He's also been featured on the web in videos from UCBComedy, College Humor, Comedy Central and The Onion, and you can see him for a few moments in the feature film Mystery Team.

His TV writing credits include Save Me (NBC), Best Friends Forever (NBC), A Night of Too Many Stars (Comedy Central) (for which he received an Emmy nomination) and more.

Anthony's regional and NYC theatre directing credits include: 1940s Radio Hour, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mister (starring Anthony Rapp), A Chorus Line and many others. Other notable directing credits: The Patriots (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival), Aziz Ansari Punched A Wall, Who's your Daddy? (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), God's Pottery (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Best Newcomers"), Listen Kid (NY Music Theatre Festival), and others. He was also the Assistant Director of the Off-Broadway shows Summer of '42 and The Wild Party (Lippa).

Anthony has written for GQ, Details, and Entertainment Weekly magazines and he's a regular contibuter to the work of Improv Everywhere [improveverywhere.com]. You can find him online at theanthonyking.com [theanthonyking.com]