Matt Stone

Matt Stone is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, actor and musician. He is known for the South Park cartoon series he created with Trey Parker; The duo are also the writers of the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon.

Youth and first jobs

He was born on May 26, 1971 in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Littleton, Colorado. studied mathematics and film at the University of Colorado Boulder; This is where he met Trey Parker. Cannibal as a student! They filmed The Musical, then produced short animations called The Spirit of Christmas. The popularity of these short films paved the way for South Park, which started broadcasting in August 1997.

South Park and beyond

South Park, which revolves around four children in a small town in Colorado, turned into a long-running television production with a satirical style. Stone voices many characters in the series and serves as producer. The series earned him five Primetime Emmys and a Peabody award. The song Blame Canada from the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Oscar; In 2004 came Team America: World Police, which was shot with puppets.

The Book of Mormon, which he wrote with Robert Lopez in 2011, received nine Tony awards, including Best Musical; Stone personally won three Tonys and a Grammy for this work. In 2020, they produced the Sassy Justice web series, prepared with deepfake technology. Stone continues to work on South Park with Parker.