Neil Garguilo

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Neil Garguilo
Born
Neil William Garguilo

(1982-04-14) April 14, 1982 (age 42)
Alma mater Pace University
Occupations
  • Writer
  • producer
  • director
  • actor
  • comedian
PartnerKristin Sanchez

Neil William Garguilo (born April 14, 1982) is an American writer, producer, director, actor and improv comedian. Garguilo is co-creator, showrunner and star of the Syfy original animated series Hell Den [1] [2] which is amongst the first series to appear on Syfy's TZGZ late-night block. [1] He also appeared on all five seasons of the MTV hit comedy series Awkward , [3] and regularly works with Funny or Die [4] and members of the comedy group Broken Lizard. [5]

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He is the founding member of the celebrated improv comedy group Dr. God, [6] the group responsible for the 2015 horror-comedy Bloodsucking Bastards .

In 2020, Garguilo won a Daytime Emmy Award for his Funny or Die series Brainwashed By Toons. He was nominated twice for the series and shares an Emmy Award with Seinfeld star Jason Alexander. [7] [8]

Early life

Garguilo was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He attended Spotswood High School and is a graduate of Pace University. [9] While in college, he also attended the New York Film Academy and performed stand-up comedy regularly at the New York Comedy Club.

Career

After college, Garguilo attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and studied improv comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade (New York and Los Angeles), iO West, Second City Hollywood and the Pack Theater.

His television career started at TV Guide Network as an assistant on the John Henson television series Watch This. From there, Garguilo would work on and off camera for years before landing the role of Principal Cox on the hit MTV series Awkward .

In 2014, he created his first television series MOCKpocalpyse which aired for three seasons on the Mark Cuban-owned cable network AXS TV. [10] This talking-head comedy series featured comics such as Steve Agee, Nate Bargatze, Mary Birdsong, Frangela, Kevin Heffernan, Dave Holmes, Jamie Kaler, Michael Kosta, Steve Lemme, Jimmy Pardo, Emo Philips, Catherine Reitman, Sam Richardson, Brody Stevens, Ryan Stout and more. [11]

In 2019, Garguilo launched his production company Rafael Raffaele Entertainment. Through his company, Garguilo created his first animated television series Hell Den alongside the members of his comedy group Dr. God. He serves as showrunner, [2] director and stars as Andrew in addition to playing dozens of sketch characters. [12]

Also, through his company, Garguilo created, directed, wrote and produced his 2019 Funny or Die digital series Brainwashed by Toons, featuring songs with Jason Alexander, Wayne Brady and Lea Thompson. [13] He made the series with longtime collaborators Dwayne Colbert and Gregory James Jenkins. For his work, he won Outstanding Original Song and was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Special Class Series at the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. [14]

Personal life

Garguilo is of Puerto Rican and Italian descent.

In 2019, he was engaged to voice actress and producer Kristin Sanchez.

Filmography

Television

YearTitleCreditsNotes
2010 The Bold and the Beautiful Beat Cop1 episode
2011 Attack of the Show Johnny Planking Champion1 episode
2011–2015 Awkward Principal Cox9 episodes
2012 Stevie TV Police Officer #11 episode
2013–2014Foursome: Walk of ShameSelf13 episodes
2014 AXS TV's Super Party Super SpecialSelf
Executive Producer
1 episode
2014–2015MOCKpocalpyseSelf
Co-Creator
Executive Producer
Director
25 episodes
2016 Almost Genius Director22 episodes
2017Casandra French's Finishing SchoolTor Helberg1 episode
2016–2017Greatest EverProducer21 episodes
2017ClickbaitConsulting Producer20 episodes
2019 Tacoma FD Dispatcher Ken1 episode
2019–present Hell Den Andrew
Co-Creator
Executive Producer
Writer
Director
12 episodes

Film

YearTitleCredits
2009 Dead Air Colleague #2
2015 Bloodsucking Bastards Mike
Co-Writer (as Dr. God)
2017 From Jennifer Gavin Trask
2018 Super Troopers 2 Grocery Driver

Digital

YearTitleSeriesCreditsNotes
2008Sketch ToonsStrike TVVarious Voices1 episode
2010Electric SpoofalooTake 180The Situation1 episode
2014Fist-Man: Strongest of the Slab-Bodied Slab Lords Adult Swim Announcer1 episode
2015–2017Throwback Clevver Executive Producer
Director
62 episodes
2019Take It Outside Funny or Die Director
Writer
8 episodes
2019Brainwashed By Toons Funny or Die Creator
Writer
Director
Executive Producer
3 episodes

Awards and nominations

YearAssociationCategoryNominated WorkResult
2020 The Webby Awards Online Film & Video: Weird Hell Den Nominated
Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Writing for a Special Class SeriesBrainwashed By ToonsNominated
Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Original SongBrainwashed By ToonsWon

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