Anne Garefino

Anne Garefino (born July 1, 1959) is an American film and television producer.^[1] She is the co-executive producer (with Trey Parker and Matt Stone) of the long-running series South Park, and the co-executive producer of the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon (with Scott Rudin).^[2] Continuing her work on South Park, she was the executive producer of the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. She also was the executive producer of the film Team America: World Police.

About

Raised in Lambertville, New Jersey, she graduated from Boston College, where she majored in finance.^[3] She received her MFA at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles in 1988.^[4]

Awards

Garefino has been nominated for thirteen and won five Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on South Park,^[5] and won both a Tony Award^[6] and a Grammy Award for her work on The Book of Mormon.^[7] She is an Oscar away from achieving EGOT status.^[8] In 2014 she won the American Film Institute's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal.^[4]