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Larry O'Connor (born 23 June 1967, Detroit, MI, United States) is an American talk radio host, editor of the news/commentary website Breitbart.com, frequent television guest on Fox News Channel's early morning show Fox and Friends as well as FNC's Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Early Life
Born in Detroit, Michigan, O'Connor grew up in the suburban township of Plymouth located between Detroit and Ann Arbor. In 1980 he moved to Newport Beach, CA and attended Corona del Mar High School along with actors Reg Rogers and Kellie Rutherford, Rock star and TV personality Mark McGrath, and film director/producer McG.

Theatre
From 1986 - 1991, O'Connor worked for The Shubert Organization. During his tenure as General Manager of the Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles (1991-1999), O'Connor oversaw the renovation of the 2,100 seat theatre specifically to accommodate the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's SUNSET BLVD. starring Glenn Close. He helped create the Ovation Awards, the competitive theatre awards in Los Angeles modeled after Broadways' Tony Awards. He served as Executive Producer of the awards show in 1994 and 1995 and he served as the President of the governing body for the awards, Theatre LA, the league of Los Angeles Theatres.

After leaving Shubert in 1999, O'Connor served as General Manager/Producer for several major productions including Sweeney Todd starring Kelsey Grammar, A Knight Out starring Sir Ian McKellen and 10 Commandments the Musical Starring Val Kilmer and then-unknown Adam Lambert.

Writing
In January 2009 O'Connor began writing for Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site under the pseudonym "Stage Right." O'Connor focused on the theatre industry and wrote from the perspective of a conservative in the closet surrounded by political liberals on Broadway. O'Connor wrote many posts about the NEA Conference call scandal    and began broaching into political reporting after the launch of Breitbart's next site, Big Government. In January 2011 O'Connor revealed his true identity, dropped his pen name and officially left the theatre business to focus on his political journalism career full-time.

His byline frequently appeared at Big Journalism, Breitbart's site focusing on critical assesments of the main stream media. He spear-headed the defense of James O'Keefe during his arrest at Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans and he exposed major falsehood's in an article written by Max Blumenthal about O'Keefe that resulted in Salon.com issuing retractions. The Salon article became the focal point between a showdown between Breitbart, O'Connor and Blumenthal at the annual CPAC conference in Washington DC that was caught on YouTube.

In June 2011 O'Connor was promoted to the Editor-in-Chief of another Andrew Breitbart brain-child, Breitbart.TV, a political video website catering to the right-of-center internet audience. Since his installment at Breitbart.tv, the site broke several videos including the video that eventually led to Rep. Bob Ethridge's retirement from Congress, the "Resist We Much" Al Sharpton video as well as the Shirley Sherrod NAACP speech video.

Radio
O'Connor started his radio career on Internet radio in January 2010 with a nightly news/talk show "The Stage Right Show" on Blog Talk Radio. The show consisted of O'Connor's monologues on current events in news, politics, and the entertainment industry, interviews with newsmakers and journalists, calls from listeners and interaction with the live chat room. Guests on the nightly show, as well as special live remote shows have included Gov. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich , Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Richard Dreyfuss, Greg Gutfeld, Fred Thompson, Ed Morrissey, Adam Baldwin , and Michelle Malkin. Often the late Andrew Breitbart would call in to the show unannounced and give unedited and uncensored interviews. In 2011 the show added webcams and a Ustream feed to the nightly show and late in that year the show's name was changed to "The Larry O'Connor Show"

Also in 2011, O'Connor began filling in for many terrestrial radio shows and stations including nationally syndicated shows like The Dennis Miller Show, The Hugh Hewitt Show and The Rusty Humphries Show. As well as local shows on major market stations like WOR and WABC in New York, WMAL  in Washington DC, WLS  in Chicago, WPHT in Philadelphia and WIBC in Indianapolis.