Anne Garefino

{{Short description|American film and television producer (born 1959)}}

Anne Garefino (born July 1, 1959) is an American film and television producer.{{cite web|title=Anne Garefino|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307187/|publisher=IMDb}} 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). 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.[http://www.afi.com/about/releases/2014/AFI_Schaffner_Alumni_Medal_2014.aspx "ANNE GAREFINO TO RECEIVE 24TH ANNUAL FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER ALUMNI MEDAL; Joins Previous AFI Conservatory Alumni Including Darren Aronofsky, David Lynch and Patty Jenkins"], American Film Institute, May 28, 2014. Accessed April 15, 2016. "The Lambertville, New Jersey, native received a degree in Finance from Boston College and was a Producing Fellow at AFI." She received her MFA at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles in 1988.{{Cite web |last=McNary |first=Dave |date=2014-05-28 |title='South Park' Exec Producer Anne Garefino Wins AFI Alumni Medal |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/south-park-exec-producer-anne-garefino-wins-afi-alumni-medal-1201194351/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

Awards

Garefino has been nominated for thirteen and won five Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on South Park, and won both a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for her work on The Book of Mormon. She is an Oscar away from achieving EGOT status.{{Cite web |last=Beachum |first=Chris |date=2024-01-23 |title=Who needs an Oscar to reach EGOT? |url=https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/who-needs-an-oscar-to-reach-egot/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=GoldDerby |language=en-US}} In 2014 she won the American Film Institute's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal.