Playwright, executive producer, actor, creator, and stand-up comedian Trey Anthony is known for the groundbreaking production 'da Kink in My Hair. Debuting at the Toronto Fringe Festival, 'da Kink in my Hair, has been featured at the prestigious Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, and in theatres in New York, San Diego and London, England.

Anthony is a former television producer for the Women’s Television Network and a writer for the Comedy Network and CTV. She is the first black Canadian woman to write and produce a television show on a major prime time Canadian network. A mentor and role model, Anthony, founded the Trey Anthony@One Centre in Toronto, where she offers classes on creative writing, well-being and spirituality. She hopes the centre will help change the way Canadian women view themselves.

She is also the Executive Producer of the Urban Women’s Comedy Festival, “da girl, sho is funny!” She co-wrote I Am Not a Dinner Mint and The Crap Women Swallow to Stay in a Relationship, which debuted in 2006 to sold-out audiences.

She volunteers with the Black Queer Youth Group, speaking to students about body image and other issues facing female adolescents, and gives away free tickets to her shows to youth and women in shelters. In 2009, Anthony produced the hit play Secrets of a Black Boy, which was a box office success! She is now busy working on her new production, The Trey Anthony Show, a talk show and her first feature film. She has recently been named a featured contributor/writer for the Toronto Star.

More information on Trey Anthony can be found at: www.speakers.ca/anthony_trey.html.

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