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Matt Stone
b. 1971
American filmmaker, animator, and actor (born 1971)
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Biography
Matthew Richard Stone is an American animator, writer, producer, songwriter, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for co-creating the animated television series South Park and the stage musical The Book of Mormon (2011) with his creative partner Trey Parker. Intrigued by a career in entertainment at a young age, he studied film and mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Parker. During their attendance, the two worked on various short films and starred in the feature-length musical Cannibal! The Musical (1993).
Timeline
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South Park premieres on Comedy Central. He and Parker made the original short with construction paper cutouts for under $2,000. The show is crude, profane, and sharper than anything else on television. They voice most of the characters themselves.
Team America: World Police is released. Puppets. Graphic puppet violence. A puppet sex scene the MPAA makes them cut nine times. He and Parker write, direct, produce, and voice most of it while simultaneously making South Park episodes.
The Book of Mormon opens on Broadway. Written with Parker and Robert Lopez. A musical about Mormon missionaries in Uganda. Nine Tonys. Standing ovations. The Mormon Church buys ads in the playbill. Stone and Parker respect that.
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