Anthony Bunko

Best-selling author, playwright, and award-winning scriptwriter, Anthony

Bunko has written 16 fiction novels and eight autobiographies. Notably, Stuart

Cable: Demons and Cocktails; Anna Rodriguez: Ma’am Anna – The Remarkable

Story of a Human Trafficking Rescuer; plus Hugh Jackman and Hugh Laurie

biographies. Recently he was nominated for the Sunday Times Rugby book of

the year with the autobiography of Mark Jones – Fighting to Speak. Over the last

five years,

Bunko has written nine highly celebrated stage plays which have been

performed to sell-out audiences and received five-star reviews throughout

Wales. Bunko’s sixth play, The Man Whose Hair Grew Black was performed on

tour in Wales and in the Leicester Square Theatre in London’s West End in

February 2020. He’s had three plays perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to

4-star reviews, Fly Me To The Moon, Knuckles and Stiff was nominated for the

best comedy at the fringe. His new play INK’D just toured South Wales.

Bunko’s short film, Home has won a series of awards at international film

festivals, including Best Short at Cardiff International Film Festival. His second

film, Knuckles, has also won a number of awards. Bunko recently wrote a film

Wheels for the BBC and won best short film at the British International Film

Festival in 2023 and is still available on BBC catch up. His new short Promise

starring Sharon Morgan is also doing very well. Recently, he’s been involved in

the writer room with the Golden Cobra BBC animation programme.

Bunko has been heavily involved in the creative arts in the Valleys for

many years, running workshops in schools and colleges, and with the general

public. Recently he worked with 23 schools in the borough running creative

writing workshops. The result was 3 separate books were published, written by

over 600 school children. He’s also written several radio show including I could

have been an astronaut, Radio Gurnwah, Radio Meffa and others.