Hal Lublin
Hal Lublin is an American actor, improv performer, and voice-over artist best known for his work on the Thrilling Adventure Hour and Welcome to Night Vale.
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Hal Lublin in The Thrilling Adventure Hour | |
Alma mater | Syracuse University |
Occupation | Actor, comedian, voice-over artist |
Years active | 2001-present |
Career
Lublin has studied improvisational comedy with The Groundlings, The Second City, and iO West.[1] He does voice work, including animation, commercials, and video games. He voiced a lead character in the animated series Slammo & Sloshie. Since 2006, Lublin has been featured in a video series for Symantec as Hal, The IT Admin.[2]
Lublin co-creates UN-imations with Len Peralta, which are improvised pieces of art in which Lublin provides a voice and Peralta must create a drawing from scratch based upon that voice.[3]
It was announced in September 2015 that Lublin would be appearing in season six of The Venture Bros.[4]
He is a frequent guest on EW Radio's L.A. Daily on SiriusXM.[5]
Podcasts
Lublin has been a WorkJuice player on the Thrilling Adventure Hour starting in 2005, when it started as a stage show at M Bar in Los Angeles, through the end of its formal run in 2015.[6] His roles included the announcer for the segment Beyond Belief, Gummy to Craig Cackowski's Banjo in Mooonshine Holler,[7] Phillip Fathom, and numerous other recurring characters.
In October 2013 Lublin joined the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, first voicing Steve Carlsberg in a live episode performed in Brooklyn.[8] Lublin has also been a frequent guest in The David Feldman Show.[9]
Lublin and fellow WorkJuice Player Mark Gagliardi launched We Got This with Mark and Hal, a podcast in which the two provide definitive answers to pointless debates,[10] in February 2015.[11][12] In July 2015 the podcast joined the Maximum Fun podcast network.[13]
Lublin also hosts a weekly wrestling podcast Tights and Fights, which wraps up the week in wrestling, covering major events and storylines.
Personal life
Originally from Philadelphia,[8] Lublin graduated from Syracuse University in 1999.[14]
Filmography
Television
Year | Title | Episode(s) | Role |
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2001 | Read or Die | Otto Lilienthal, Eliot (voice) | |
2003 | Hey Monie! | Construction Worker | |
2003 | Becker | Sister Spoils the Turkey | Mr. O'Neal |
2004 | Dead Leaves | Blue Elephant; Mini Bluto; Mr. Coffee; Offspring;
Pedestrian; Ship Computer; Testicle Head (voice) | |
2005 | Reeling in Reality | Todd Lespinasse | |
2005 | Gregory Shitcock, P.I. | S01E01 | Lumberjack[15] |
2007 | Slammo and Sloshie | Sloshie/narrator (voice) | |
2008 | Team Doctors | TV movie | Spencer |
2009 | See Dick Run | Pawn Broker | |
2013 | NerdHQ | Thrilling Adventure Hour: Conversation with Cast & Creators | Himself |
2014 | The Wil Wheaton Project | Wil vs. Hedorah | Reginald Borday |
2014 | Thrilling Adventure Hour Live | WorkJuice Player | |
2014 | Thrilling Adventure Hour: The Documentary Web Series | Video Short | Himself |
2016 | The Venture Brothers | Seasons 6 & 7 | Wide Wale, Manolo[4] |
Mighty Magiswords | Season 1 & 2 | The Great Omnibus, Smashroom, Ice Posey, Crunch Dislikus, Punchica, Pirate 08, Shopkeeper, Toots, Toad, Crowd Man, Galactonian Player 1, Shadow Beast, Hootlydoot, Galactonian Grey Griffin, Store, Valet, Horse King | |
2017 | Adam Ruins Everything | "Adam Ruins College" | College Bears |
Podcasts
Podcast | Episode | Date | Role |
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Thrilling Adventure Hour | All | 2010-2015 | WorkJuice Player |
The Dead Authors Podcast | Appendix A | 2011/12/20 | Charles Dickens[16] |
Chapter 19 | 2012/12/24 | Luke[17] | |
Chapter 41 | 2014/12/24 | Dr. Seuss[18] | |
The David Feldman Show | Various[9] | 2013-2014 | |
Hobcast | #19 | 2013/03/13 | Himself[19] |
#36 | 2014/10/24 | Himself[20] | |
Welcome to Night Vale | #37.5, #49B, #53, #56.5, #110 | 2013/10; 2017 | Steven Carlsberg |
Brock Party | #46[21] | 2014/04/22 | |
What Are You Reading? | #36 | 2014/01/14 | Himself[22] |
Geek a Week | 2014/04 | Himself[23] | |
Spontaneanation | #12, #21, #25, #33, #40, #45, #50, #59, #65[24] |
2015 | Improv actor |
We Got This with Mark and Hal | All[25] | 2015 | Co-host with Mark Gagliardi |
Nerd for a Living | #38[14] | 2015/05/18 | Himself |
The JV Club | #167 | 2015/08/20 | Guest[26] |
Tights and Fights | All[27] | 2016 | Host |
Surprisingly Nice | All | 2017 | Co-host with Travis McElroy[28] |
Star Wars Minute | Attack of the Clones minutes 76-80 | 2017 | Guest |
Trends Like These | May 26, 2017 | 2017 | Beyond the Headlines segment guest host |
The Peanuts Gallery | It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown | 2017-2018 | Guest |
The Adventure Zone | The Adventure Zone: Amnesty: Episode 29 | 2019 | Agent Haynes |
References
- "Hal Lublin". Dragoncon. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- "Hal, the IT Admin". Symantec. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- "UN-imation Films". Youtube. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- DragonCon 2015 - Venture Bros. Team Misaki Studios. 10 September 2015.
- Radio, E. W. (2017-09-29). "#LADaily is live now! We have @DanMacPherson @KPSull @hallublin and @MarkGags up next!pic.twitter.com/Z5J9Q60kp2". @EWlive. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Yarbrough, Beau (9 July 2015). "Comic-Con 2015: 'The Thrilling Adventure Hour' leaps from stage to comics and screen". Los Angeles Daily News.
- Biese, Alex (25 August 2015). "'Thrilling Adventure Hour' plots New York City return". Asbury Park Press.
- Biese, Alex (9 January 2015). "Thoughts on Steve Carlsberg of 'Welcome to Night Vale'". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- "Hal Lublin". DavidFeldman.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- "No Need of a Laugh Track: An Interview with Hal Lublin, Mark Gagliardi, and Timothy Omundson from The Thrilling Adventure Hour at C2E2". The Geekiary. 27 April 2015.
- "We Got This with Mark and Hal: Episode 0.5: The Promo". Libsyn. 27 February 2015.
- Hershon, Marc (28 March 2015). "Podcast Reviews: We Got This and Always Been Silly". Huffington Post. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- @MaxFunHQ (29 July 2015). "Please join us in welcoming Can I Pet Your Dog? and We Got This to the MaxFun family!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "Episode #38: Hal Lublin, Voice Actor". Nerd for a Living. 18 May 2015.
- "Channel 101 - Talent - Hal Lublin". Channel 101. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- "Appendix A: Charles Dickens and O. Henry, featuring Hal Lublin and Marc Evan Jackson". Libsyn. 20 December 2011.
- "Chapter 19: The Authors of The Gospels, featuring Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin and Matt Gourley". Libsyn. 24 December 2012.
- "Chapter 41: Dr. Seuss, featuring Hal Lublin". Libsyn. 24 December 2014.
- "Episode 19 Hal Lublin". Hob the Troll. 13 March 2013.
- "Episode 36: Hal Lublin". Hob the Troll. 24 October 2014.
- "Episode 46: Naomi Grossman, Hal Lublin". Podbean. 22 April 2014.
- Debenham, Matt (14 January 2014). "WAYR #36: HAL LUBLIN".
- Peralta, Len. "Geek A Week Year Five Two: Hal Lublin". Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- "Hal Lublin on Earwolf". Earwolf. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- "We Got This with Mark and Hal". Libsyn. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- Levine, Katie (20 August 2015). "The JV Club #167: Boys of Summer - Hal Lublin". Nerdist. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- "Tights and Fights | Maximum Fun". maximumfun.org. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
- "Hal and Travis (@TheNiceCast) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
External links
- Hal Lublin on Twitter
- Hal Lublin on Instagram
- Hal Lublin on Tumblr
- Hal Lublin at IMDb