Anthony Veneziale

Anthony has collaborated with Lekker Media since 2007 as an actor, director and writer. Having graduated Wesleyan University with a BA in Film Studies, Anthony moved to New York City and co-founded production company Back House Productions. Their first musical In The Heights eventually went to Broadway, where it won the Tony Award for best new musical of 2008.

Most recently, he was a producer and director on the Pivot channel's series Freestyle Love Supreme, which is an improvised, hip hop television show based on the group of the same name, that he is a member of. The show hits Broadway in Fall of 2019 with Anthony as a co-creator (along with Thomas Kail and Lin Manuel Miranda) and anchoring the cast.

He also helped with the relaunch of children’s television show The Electric Company that is now airing on PBS, working as a creative producer, writer, lyricist, and actor.

Anthony's acting has included feature-length films (notably Steven Soderbegh's Che), television shows (HBO's Looking, All My Children, and Sex and the City), and numerous commercials.

In San Francisco, he founded a comedy improv troupe, Crisis Hopkins and a west coast version of Freestyle Love Supreme called The Freeze. He also co-founded the hit improvised PowerPoint show Speechless, which is a phenomenon in the presentation training world as well as the SF performance scene.

His partner, Caricia and he started a non-profit participatory film project called The VideoVoice Collective. They’ve worked in the United States, and with Kiva.org in Indonesia, giving marginalized communities the skill sets and equipment to make their own documentary videos to influence change in their neighborhoods.