Matt Stone

Matt Stone at Comic-Con 2016

Matthew "Matt" Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971 in Houston , Texas ) is an American actor , screenwriter , producer and director . He is best known as the creator of the television series South Park , which he co-produced with friend Trey Parker .

life and career

Matt Stone went to Littleton (Colorado) , a suburb of Denver , to the high school . He later studied film and math at the University of Colorado at Boulder . There he met Trey Parker. They both spent a lot of time on their first big movie, Cannibal! The Musical , which is why Parker failed to graduate from college. Stone, however, successfully completed his mathematics degree.

Stone (right) with Trey Parker, 2007

In 1996 he founded the band DVDA with Trey Parker . In the band he works as a drummer and, together with the other band members, recorded many pieces of music that were used in well-known works such as Orgazmo or Here comes Bush! as well as in the television series South Park were used.

Matt Stone became famous for the award-winning US animated series South Park , first broadcast in 1997 and co-created with Trey Parker. In South Park, the character Kyle Broflovski Matt Stone was modeled after. Other projects in collaboration with Parker include several feature films, including a. the political satire Team America: World Police , a puppet film, and the television series That's my Bush! ( Here comes Bush! ) .

Stones and Parker's satirical works are characterized by the breaking of taboos and the renunciation of political correctness . In addition to personalities from politics and show business , religious figures and marginalized groups or minorities in the USA are parodied.

Stone has been married to Angela Howard since 2008, with whom he has two children.

Stone wrote a satirical Broadway musical with Parker called The Book of Mormon . The premiere took place on March 24, 2011.

Filmography

• 1995: Time Warped (Actor)
• 1996: Cannibal! The Musical (writer, producer, director, actor)
• 1996: The Spirit of Christmas (Writer, Producer, Director)
• 1997: Orgazmo (actor, writer, producer, director)
• since 1997: South Park (TV series; narrator in the original version, author, producer)
• 1998: The Sports Cannons (Actor)
• 1999: South Park: The Movie - bigger, longer, uncut (speaker in original version, writer, director)
• 2001: here comes Bush! (TV series; writer, producer, performer)
• 2002: Bowling for Columbine (Actor)
• 2004: Team America: World Police (writer, narrator, producer, director)

Video games

• 2014: South Park: The Stick of Truth (Writer, Speaker, Developer)
• 2017: South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Author, Speaker, Developer)

Web links

• Matt Stone in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Book Of Mormon: not for the easily offended . In: The Guardian , January 4, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013. “Stone has two children under three. .... " 
2. ↑ Carl Swanson: "Latter-Day Saints" , New York Magazine , March 6, 2011, p 2
3. ↑ http://www.bookofmormonbroadway.com/ Retrieved March 10, 2011