Voice acting King has provided numerous voices for television, film, and video games, from the voice of the Host in "The Witness" and Liang and Renshu in "Good Hunting". His work includes Father and Kozou in
Studio Ghibli's Only Yesterday,
Illidan Stormrage in the
World of Warcraft franchise,
The Persuader in
Bruce Timm's Justice League vs The Fatal Five,
The Atom in
Injustice 2, Eian in
Batman Ninja, and the voices of
Splinter and
Shredder in
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). King is the voice of
Apple in numerous television ads and also voiced both
Liu Kang and
Fujin in
Mortal Kombat 11 and also voiced
Kung Lao in the animated film
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms. Additionally, King was one of the creators and hosts of the long-running podcast, GeeksOn, with Aaron Hendricks, Donald Marshall, and Peter Gamble Robinson.
Film and television King has had recurring roles on
Riverdale,
Numbers,
24, and
Strong Medicine. He starred opposite
Danny Huston in the
Bernard Rose film
The Kreutzer Sonata, which also features King playing the violin.
Stage King's stage credits include the first Broadway touring production of
Titanic: The Musical, as Bradley with Sab Shimono and The Tempest as Caliban with fellow NYU Tisch alumnus Daniel Dae Kim, and an NAACP award-winning hip-hop version of The Two Gentlemen of Verona called 2G's'' at Los Angeles'
Sacred Fools Theater.
Writing Frustrated with playing stereotypically
Asian roles in the early-mid 2000s, King began writing to create roles for minority actors "that people felt they could wrap their brains around that were about being ethnic...[and] racism."
The Harrowing, his script with Peter Gamble featuring an
African-American man as the lead in a
horror film is in development.
Crowdfunding projects In 2017, King collaborated with cartoonist Ellipsis Stephens and fellow producers
Phil LaMarr and Danielle Stephens to bring Stephen's webcomic,
Goblins, to life as an animated series. The
Goblins Animated campaign on
Indiegogo was to produce a five-minute long mega-trailer/pilot that could be used to garner more interest in the project. King himself voices one of the characters, Fumbles. Notable voice actors make up the rest of the cast, including
Phil LaMarr as Complains of Names,
Billy West as Minmax,
Maurice LaMarche as Forgath,
Jim Cummings as Thaco,
Tara Strong as Saves a Fox,
Matthew Mercer as Big Ears,
Jennifer Hale as Kin, and
Steve Blum as Kore. The mega-trailer is currently under production. In 2012, King created a
Kickstarter project for his steampunk webseries called
The World of Steam. Written, directed, and produced by King, the show is set in a
Twilight Zone-type
steampunk universe and featured Scott Folsom, Gail Folsom,
Gina Torres,
Mido Hamada,
Karl E. Landler, Julian Curtis,
Robin Atkin Downes, and King himself as the host, Mr. Liang. At the time, the series was the highest-grossing webseries ever on Kickstarter. The first episode,
The Clockwork Heart, was released as a webisode in 2013 and contains music by composer
Bear McCreary. The remainder of the series is still in the works and is being developed for television.
Steampunk work After the creation of the
World of Steam webseries in 2012, King was seen as a leader in the
Steampunk creative community. As a result, he was invited to serve as one of the three judges on the first-ever network Steampunk-themed reality show,
Game Show Network's ''
Steampunk'd in 2015. King cites his Steampunk influces as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H.P. Lovecraft, K.W. Jeter, among others. He collaborated with Scott and Gail Folsom from the League of STEAM on the pilot episode for the World of Steam
, "The Clockwork Heart," His Love, Death and Robots episode, "Good Hunting," is Asian-inspired Steampunk. King has appeared at various Steampunk conventions as a presenter and judge, and is currently collaborating with Cheyenne Wright of Girl Genius on a new Steampunk project called The Cabinet of Curiosities''.
Convention appearances == Filmography ==