Anacostia (web series)
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| Created by | Anthony Anderson |
| Written by | Anthony Anderson |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
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| Original network | YouTube |
| Original release | October 15, 2009 – present |
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| Website | www |
Anacostia is a soap opera web series that premiered on October 15, 2009, on YouTube. Created by and starring Anthony Anderson, the series has chronicled the drama among residents of the titular community in Washington, D. C. for five seasons.
The series was nominated for a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series, and Martha Byrne won a Daytime Emmy the same year for Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series for her performance as Alexis Jordan. Elizabeth Hubbard was nominated in 2016 for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for her role as Eva Montgomery, and Anthony Anderson was nominated in 2017 for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for his role as Sean Williams-Grey. Anacostia has also received several Indie Series Awards.
Anacostia was created in 2009 by Anderson, who also writes, executive produces and stars in the series. Byrne serves as co-executive producer, with Fritz Brekeller as supervising producer, and Benjamin Bryant as Senior Producer. Lora Lee, Jamie Misiak and Alexis Robinson Smith are the series' line producers; Harold Jackson III, Anne Wells Auer and Nicole Whitmire serve as consulting producers; and Marion Akpan, Christopher Bair, Kelvin Cook, Tia Dae, Pasha Diallo, India Doy-Young, Antonio Harrison Jr., Kena Hodges, William Lash and Rolfini Whidbee serve as producers.
Byrne, known for her longtime role on the defunct CBS soap opera As the World Turns, joined the series in the role of high-powered madame Alexis Jordan in 2011. In September 2015, Soap Opera Digest reported that Byrne's former As the World Turns co-star Elizabeth Hubbard would also appear on Anacostia as Eva Montgomery, in scenes directed and co-written by Byrne. In 2016, the show announced that writer and broadcaster Benjamin Bryant would join the production as a senior producer and creative consultant for season five.
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