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Anthony Del Col
Anthony Del Col is a Canadian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator, writer and entrepreneur. Del Col is the writer of the Insider comic I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp, the co-creator and co-writer of the Joe Shuster Award-nominated comic, Kill Shakespeare, Audible's Assassin's Creed: Gold (starring Oscar-winner Riz Ahmed), Marvel's Luke Cage: Everyman and the controversial Image Comics graphic novel Son of Hitler.
Del Col was born and raised in Timmins, Ontario, Canada and is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, the Canadian Film Centre and the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab,
Del Col has produced feature films in Canada, including serving as executive producer on the Nelly Furtado Loose Live album CD.[citation needed]
Del Col is also an accomplished film pitch consultant; He won the Telefilm Canada Pitch This contest in 2006 and 2010. Anthony also served as a coach for the contest in 2011 and 2012.
Del Col has written for a number of podcasts, including Wondery's hit series Against the Odds.
Along with Conor McCreery, Del Col is the co-creator and co-writer of Kill Shakespeare, which debuted in comic book format in April 2010. Kill Shakespeare is described by the New York Times as, "gripping, violent and dark fun, even if you're not fully versed in Shakespearean lore". As of 2011[update], more than 50,000 copies in more than a dozen countries.
Under Del Col's watch, Kill Shakespeare has been produced in a variety of media. In addition to its publication as a comic book, Del Col and McCreery, along with Soulpepper, have staged a theatrical production of Kill Shakespeare, called "Kill Shakespeare Live!". The theatrical production of Kill Shakespeare has been performed in Toronto by Soulpepper, in Montreal at the 2012 Montreal Comiccon, in Chicago by Strawdog Theatre Company, as well as at MEFCC 2013 in Dubai. Del Col and McCreery are also working with Katie Musgrave, an academic, and Brian Kelly, a teacher, to create a teacher's guide for Kill Shakespeare in an effort to encourage teachers to use Kill Shakespeare as an educational tool. The Kill Shakespeare board game was successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter and was released on February 19, 2014. Del Col and McCreery have also discussed plans to release a Kill Shakespeare mobile app game.
Del Col has also given lectures on comic writing, adapting Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in education. In May 2015, Del Col spoke at Shakespeare's Globe in London as part of the theatre's Shakespeare Inspired special event series.
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Anthony Del Col
Anthony Del Col is a Canadian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator, writer and entrepreneur. Del Col is the writer of the Insider comic I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp, the co-creator and co-writer of the Joe Shuster Award-nominated comic, Kill Shakespeare, Audible's Assassin's Creed: Gold (starring Oscar-winner Riz Ahmed), Marvel's Luke Cage: Everyman and the controversial Image Comics graphic novel Son of Hitler.
Del Col was born and raised in Timmins, Ontario, Canada and is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, the Canadian Film Centre and the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab,
Del Col has produced feature films in Canada, including serving as executive producer on the Nelly Furtado Loose Live album CD.[citation needed]
Del Col is also an accomplished film pitch consultant; He won the Telefilm Canada Pitch This contest in 2006 and 2010. Anthony also served as a coach for the contest in 2011 and 2012.
Del Col has written for a number of podcasts, including Wondery's hit series Against the Odds.
Along with Conor McCreery, Del Col is the co-creator and co-writer of Kill Shakespeare, which debuted in comic book format in April 2010. Kill Shakespeare is described by the New York Times as, "gripping, violent and dark fun, even if you're not fully versed in Shakespearean lore". As of 2011[update], more than 50,000 copies in more than a dozen countries.
Under Del Col's watch, Kill Shakespeare has been produced in a variety of media. In addition to its publication as a comic book, Del Col and McCreery, along with Soulpepper, have staged a theatrical production of Kill Shakespeare, called "Kill Shakespeare Live!". The theatrical production of Kill Shakespeare has been performed in Toronto by Soulpepper, in Montreal at the 2012 Montreal Comiccon, in Chicago by Strawdog Theatre Company, as well as at MEFCC 2013 in Dubai. Del Col and McCreery are also working with Katie Musgrave, an academic, and Brian Kelly, a teacher, to create a teacher's guide for Kill Shakespeare in an effort to encourage teachers to use Kill Shakespeare as an educational tool. The Kill Shakespeare board game was successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter and was released on February 19, 2014. Del Col and McCreery have also discussed plans to release a Kill Shakespeare mobile app game.
Del Col has also given lectures on comic writing, adapting Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in education. In May 2015, Del Col spoke at Shakespeare's Globe in London as part of the theatre's Shakespeare Inspired special event series.