Name Don King | Role Director | |
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Education Pennsylvania State University Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Variety Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Variety, Music or Comedy Program Movies Saturday Night Live 40th Anni, Romeo and Juliet, Jekyll & Hyde: Direct fro, Morning Glory, Memphis: Direct from Broadway Similar Beth McCarthy‑Miller, Jorma Taccone, Eric D Schaeffer, Lorne Michaels, Emily Spivey | ||
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Don Roy King is the director of Saturday Night Live, having assumed the role in 2006. This work has earned him seven Primetime Emmys (in a row) and ten nominations. He has also been nominated for eleven DGA (Director's Guild of America) awards, which he won in 2014, 2016 and 2017. His other directing work includes Survivor (including the live Survivor finales on CBS), The Early Show, and The Mike Douglas Show. He has directed morning shows at CBS and ABC.
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- Don roy king the serious art of tv comedy conversations from penn state
- Meet SNLs Emmy Winning Director Don Roy King AARP
- Career
- Filmography
- Awards nominations
- References
Mr. King is also the creative director of Broadway Worldwide which brings theatrical events to theaters. The company has produced Smokey Joe's Café; Putting It Together with Carol Burnett; Jekyll & Hyde; and Memphis, all directed by Mr. King. He also directed a big screen taping of Broadway's Romeo and Juliet with Orlando Bloom in 2013.
Meet SNL's Emmy-Winning Director Don Roy King | AARP
Career
In 2001 he ended a fourteen-year run as the creative director of CBS News and director/senior producer for The Early Show and CBS This Morning. Other CBS credits include the live finale shows of the first four Survivor series, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, Bob Simon: Back to Baghdad, The Smithsonian Anniversary Specials, Camera Three, and daytime Winter Olympics coverage in France, Norway and Japan.
After leaving CBS, he directed the network pool coverage of the first September 11 Memorial Service at Ground Zero in Manhattan. In addition, he directed numerous talk show pilots including, The Robin Quivers Show, Fergie, and Day to Day with Rachael Ray. He periodically sits in as the director of The View on ABC.
For over six years Mr. King directed Good Morning America for ABC. He also directed numerous Barbara Walters Specials and two seasons of the variety series, Kids Are People Too.
Other network credits include: Judgment Night: DNA for Fox; America Alive, a daytime series for NBC; and A War Called Peace for PBS.
Mr. King has won three other Emmys for his work – one for directing The Mike Douglas Show; another for producing and directing Toys on the Town, a musical special with Shields and Yarnell; and the third for heading the design team that revamped the graphic look of CBS News. He has also been nominated for twenty-one Emmys as a writer, producer and director. Other recognition includes two Ohio State Awards, an American Bar Association Award, a San Francisco State Award, a New York Public Relations Award and three Golden Quills.
Mr. King also has a broad theatrical background; and his television credits include the original cast versions of the Broadway musicals, Tintypes and The Me Nobody Knows. Other theatrical productions for television include Monteith and Rand on Broadway, The Passion of Dracula, and Richiardi's Chamber of Horrors, a magic special. He played Daybreak director Merv in the Harrison Ford big-screen comedy, Morning Glory. He also served as the 2nd unit director and television consultant on that movie.
His other credits range from telethons to sports: concerts for MTV, including its first two New Year's Eve parties; The Easter Seal Telethon; two seasons of the syndicated series, Comedy Tonight; The Charles Perez Show, the pilot for Paramount's Entertainment Tonight; The David Susskind Show; An All-Star Tribute to Jazz with George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton; WFL Football and Pittsburgh Pirate Baseball.
As a producer, director, writer and composer, Mr. King has developed a variety of series, specials, documentaries and musicals. Many of these were produced for local stations including WCBS and WNEW, New York; KDKA, Pittsburgh; KGSC, San Jose, California; and WPSX, State College, Pennsylvania.
Filmography
Saturday Night Live