Anthony is a BAFTA and AWGIE award winning screenwriter, director and script producer. The projects Anthony has written and directed have won numerous international awards including a Primetime Emmy, an International Digital Emmy, two BAFTAs and five Australian Writers’ Guild awards.

One of Anthony’s first short films, STOP (2000), was nominated for the Palmes d’Or for short films at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. One of Anthony’s first TV assignments was writing and directing two spin-off web series for the hit US television series LOST, one of which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Interactive Television (Dharma Wants You, 2009).

In 2022, Anthony’s first play, The Norman Mailer Anecdote was a finalist in the Queensland Premier’s Drama Awards and was long-listed for The Griffin Award.

His award-winning book Beyond the Hero’s Journey was released by New South Publishing (UNSW) in 2021. It has so far been released in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the United States, Canada, China and South Korea. 

Anthony has written for The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Australian Book Review, FilmInk, InReview and the Journal of Screenwriting.

He has a Doctorate of Visual Arts from Queensland College of Arts.