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Anthony King

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Anthony King is the Artistic Director of the UCB Theatre in New York City.

 Stage performance credits include Anthony's solo shows, CHOSEN, which he performed as part of the NYC International Fringe Festival, and DAY 8: TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL, which played at UCBT.

 On the TV, Anthony has been featured on MTV's Human Giant, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn, and many commercials. He also played an appropriately middle-ages type in the Comedy Central Motherload show, All Access: Middle Ages, and voiced a scary bomber in Comedy Central Motherload's show, Window Seats.

 He is also a member of the UCBT Touring Company and tours from time to time with "Horatio Sanz and The Kings of Improv."

 Anthony's regional and NYC directing credits include: 1940s RADIO HOUR, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, MISTER (starring Anthony Rapp), A CHORUS LINE and many others. UCB Theatre directing credits include KILLGORE: THE RESURRECTION, 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 many more. He was also the Assistant Director of the Off-Broadway shows SUMMER OF '42 and THE WILD PARTY (Lippa). Anthony is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and a proud recipient of the Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship at Manhattan Theatre Club.

 Anthony 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).

 Anthony is a member of the UCBT House Team REUBEN WILLIAMS, which performs on Saturday nights at 10:30pm in their show AS SEEN ON TV and can also be seen regularly at UCBT in GRAVID WATER, LET'S HAVE A BALL, and the monthly current events debate show, SHUT UP! I HATE YOU!.

Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC