2017 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:
Hoot Gibson
Friday, June 9th, 9:00pm-10:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Ballroom
Entry only with HEAR Now Festival Pass
Hoot Gibson
Friday, June 9th, 9:00pm-10:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Ballroom
Entry only with HEAR Now Festival Pass
Presented by
Join Eric Martin, Justin Michael, Pat Fraley, and Scott Brick
for a special hour of adventure, glamour, and thrills in classic Las Vegas
Andy Daly is Hoot Gibson: Vegas Cowboy!
This Stitcher Premium original series presents the incredible true story of a real Western hero of the 20th century!
Okay, let’s say partially true. We won’t say which parts.
This Stitcher Premium original series presents the incredible true story of a real Western hero of the 20th century!
Okay, let’s say partially true. We won’t say which parts.
Eric Martin
Eric Martin (Co-Creator)
When Eric Martin was two years old, his aunt briefly lost sight of him in a department store.
Panicked, she began searching frantically through the aisles. Long moments later, he was found – reading aloud shampoo ingredients from a bottle to a blind grandmother who had asked for his help. He has been reading and performing ever since.
A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, Eric’s thesis was on performance elements at the Disneyland parks. He subsequently became a Walt Disney Imagineer for three years, and currently produces live entertainment for Universal Studios Hollywood.
In 2010, Eric began studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, and started recording a show called This American Wife, which he imagined as a public radio parody podcast. The program instantly shot to the top of the podcast charts, and was featured on the iTunes main podcast page. Since then, the show has received over 2 million downloads, and has featured original comedy and interviews with The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Superego, and cast members from Mystery Science Theater 3000. A web series version produced with Fremantle Media premiered in 2013 and was featured on the main page of nerdist.com as one of the funniest web videos of the week.
Eric also loves narrative and storytelling. His story “Going Down,” was featured on the Best Of episode of RISK! He also co-produced a monthly storytelling show True Tales of Lust and Love with author Anna David. The show performed at The Mint and M Bar in Los Angeles, was a popular podcast, and culminated in February 2014 with a book anthology from Soft Skull press.
In his spare time (which is admittedly not much), Eric loves to read great books, and watch terrible, terrible movies.
When Eric Martin was two years old, his aunt briefly lost sight of him in a department store.
Panicked, she began searching frantically through the aisles. Long moments later, he was found – reading aloud shampoo ingredients from a bottle to a blind grandmother who had asked for his help. He has been reading and performing ever since.
A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, Eric’s thesis was on performance elements at the Disneyland parks. He subsequently became a Walt Disney Imagineer for three years, and currently produces live entertainment for Universal Studios Hollywood.
In 2010, Eric began studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, and started recording a show called This American Wife, which he imagined as a public radio parody podcast. The program instantly shot to the top of the podcast charts, and was featured on the iTunes main podcast page. Since then, the show has received over 2 million downloads, and has featured original comedy and interviews with The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Superego, and cast members from Mystery Science Theater 3000. A web series version produced with Fremantle Media premiered in 2013 and was featured on the main page of nerdist.com as one of the funniest web videos of the week.
Eric also loves narrative and storytelling. His story “Going Down,” was featured on the Best Of episode of RISK! He also co-produced a monthly storytelling show True Tales of Lust and Love with author Anna David. The show performed at The Mint and M Bar in Los Angeles, was a popular podcast, and culminated in February 2014 with a book anthology from Soft Skull press.
In his spare time (which is admittedly not much), Eric loves to read great books, and watch terrible, terrible movies.
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Justin Michael (Co-Creator) is a comedian, writer / director and voice actor. You can see him every Friday night at UCB Franklin with the improv group Winslow and in his science-fiction sketch show with Jace Armstrong, Fear the Hypercube.
Recent acting credits include Season 2 of The UCB Show, ABC's Serious Music, Netflix's upcoming Buddy Thunderstruck and Amazon's Danger & Eggs. He's written / directed for Adult Swim, Comedy Central, DC, Nickelodeon, Funny or Die, Howl, Audible, Above Average and The Devastator. He co-created the Annie nominated stop-motion series Friendship All-Stars with L Studio and the short Monster Island with Stoopid Buddy. In the audio world, he hosts Batman: The Animated Podcast, co-hosts Before You Were Funny (turning it into a web series for Funny or Die) with Tremendosaur pal Jacob Reed, and recently co-created Hoot Gibson: Vegas Cowboy, for Stitcher Premium starring Andy Daly, Paul F. Tompkins and Weird Al. He's a big ol' fan of pulpy adventures, horror, giant monsters and theme parks. |
Justin Michael
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Featured In the Cast
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Scott Brick, Pat Fraley, Justin Michael, Eric Martin, and Andy Daly
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Scott Brick
Actor, screenwriter and audiobook narrator, Scott Brick definitely gives new meaning to a hyphenate career with credits in film, television, stage and radio.
Born on January 30, 1966 in Santa Barbara, California, Brick studied both acting and writing at UCLA, and joined the ranks of working professionals upon leaving school in 1989. He then spent ten years with the LA-based Will and Company, a traveling Shakespearean company which performed for schools throughout California, in addition to acting in such roles as Cyrano, Hamlet and Macbeth at various playhouses around the country.
Brick went on to become a freelance writer and published articles in magazines such as WIZARD, CREATIVE SCREENWRITING and TOYFARE.
In 2000, he was hired by Morgan Freeman and Revelations Entertainment to adapt Arthur C. Clarke's classic science-fiction RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA for the big screen.
Also in 2000, Brick ventured into narrating audiobooks and quickly found himself embraced by the audio world. To date he's won over 50 Earphones Awards for his narrating skills, as well as two Audie Awards for his work on the DUNE saga. After recording 250 titles in his first five years, AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE named Brick “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy,” and proclaimed him a Golden Voice, but it was the WALL STREET JOURNAL that sealed the moniker with a front-page article in November, 2004. Having now recorded over 600 titles, including such classics as MYSTIC RIVER, FAHRENHEIT 451, IN COLD BLOOD and HELTER SKELTER, Brick has no intention of slowing down. He obviously won't be happy until he's recorded every book ever published.
Brick just completed his first novel, a modern-day supernatural thriller based on an 18th-century murder in New England. No word on which celebrities will be asked to record the audiobook.
Actor, screenwriter and audiobook narrator, Scott Brick definitely gives new meaning to a hyphenate career with credits in film, television, stage and radio.
Born on January 30, 1966 in Santa Barbara, California, Brick studied both acting and writing at UCLA, and joined the ranks of working professionals upon leaving school in 1989. He then spent ten years with the LA-based Will and Company, a traveling Shakespearean company which performed for schools throughout California, in addition to acting in such roles as Cyrano, Hamlet and Macbeth at various playhouses around the country.
Brick went on to become a freelance writer and published articles in magazines such as WIZARD, CREATIVE SCREENWRITING and TOYFARE.
In 2000, he was hired by Morgan Freeman and Revelations Entertainment to adapt Arthur C. Clarke's classic science-fiction RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA for the big screen.
Also in 2000, Brick ventured into narrating audiobooks and quickly found himself embraced by the audio world. To date he's won over 50 Earphones Awards for his narrating skills, as well as two Audie Awards for his work on the DUNE saga. After recording 250 titles in his first five years, AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE named Brick “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy,” and proclaimed him a Golden Voice, but it was the WALL STREET JOURNAL that sealed the moniker with a front-page article in November, 2004. Having now recorded over 600 titles, including such classics as MYSTIC RIVER, FAHRENHEIT 451, IN COLD BLOOD and HELTER SKELTER, Brick has no intention of slowing down. He obviously won't be happy until he's recorded every book ever published.
Brick just completed his first novel, a modern-day supernatural thriller based on an 18th-century murder in New England. No word on which celebrities will be asked to record the audiobook.
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