Anthony Gallela

Executive Director

Anthony has been involved in gaming in one way or another for some 30 years. He started by playing D&D, Avalon Hill, and SPI games in elementary school. In high school, Anthony played just about every game he could find; and began running gaming events at Sci-Fi cons.

In his late teens, Anthony moved on to running whole game programs at Sci-Fi conventions, and was playtesting games as well. In 1993, Anthony published the Theatrix diceless role-playing game with some pals under the banner of Backstage Press, and in 1994, he started running the ManaFest game convention in the San Francisco Bay Area with Japji Khalsa. He also helped to open and manage a retail store in the Bay Area in the mid-90s.

Since then he has been running conventions, writing articles for gaming publications, consulting on game design, brokering games, and designing board games. Anthony has worked for GAMA since 2001, and as the Executive Director for GAMA, he oversees the running Origins Game Expo, GAMA Trade Show, and several industry programs. He still runs ManaFest, now called "KublaCon," and he is the co-designer of Dwarven Dig!, with Japji Khalsa, from Kenzer and Co.

E-Mail: ED@gama.org