Biografia
Drew Stone is an American film director, producer, editor, and musician. His work spans music videos, commercials, documentary films, and television. He founded Stone Films NYC, a New York City-based production company, and was instrumental in the early development of the American hardcore punk movement. Stone co-founded and served as lead singer for the hardcore bands The Mighty C.O.'s from Boston, Massachusetts, and The High & The Mighty from New York. Since 1984, he has been known as the frontman for New York City's Antidote.
Born in Queens and raised in the Bronx, Stone is a native New Yorker who grew up immersed in the New York City film industry. He studied acting at Emerson College in Boston. His father, Arny Stone, was an Academy Award-winning filmmaker for the short film The Critic, featuring Mel Brooks. His brother, Evan B. Stone, is also a film director, editor, and cinematographer, with credits including CMT’s Guntucky, Syfy’s Destination Truth, CBS’s The Amazing Race, MTV True Life, and the Emmy-winning Current TV.
After gaining experience in various crew roles on film sets, Stone established Stone Films NYC in 1992. He produced numerous music videos for artists such as Run-DMC, Onyx, Type O Negative, Insane Clown Posse, King's X, and Biohazard. He later directed videos for Agnostic Front, Madball, Sub-Zero, and Garth "Culti" Vader. Collaborating with his brother Evan as "The Stone Brothers," he directed music videos for artists including Vanilla Ice and Channel Zero. Stone is a four-time X-Tremmy award winner for his Urban Street-Bike Warriors series of extreme sports films and directed the MTV True Life episode "I Live To Ride," which introduced street-bike freestyle to a global audience. In 2006, he launched the Urban Street-Bike Warriors: Black Sheep Squadron Tour, which included significant stops in France, Poland, and Cuba.
While attending Emerson College in 1981, Stone became deeply involved in Boston's hardcore music scene, becoming lead singer of The Mighty C.O.'s. After returning to New York City in 1983, he formed The High & The Mighty and later joined Antidote. The band reformed in 2008 and experienced a resurgence in popularity as a new generation discovered the "first wave" of American hardcore. Stone’s role in the hardcore punk scene is chronicled in Steven Blush’s book American Hardcore: A Tribal History.
