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.

Biography

Originally from Philadelphia, Lublin was a fan of animation and comic books as a child.[1][2][3] He graduated from Syracuse University in 1999. In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles and subsequently developed asthma due to the climate.[2][4] Lublin's first voice acting job was an unpaid role for the Haunted Mansion's Club 33.[4]

Lublin has studied improvisational comedy with The Groundlings, The Second City, and iO West.[5] At his Second City Graduation, he was invited to do voice work for the anime for Read or Die, leading to additional voice work.[2][4] 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.[6]

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.[7] It was announced in September 2015 that Lublin would be appearing in season six of The Venture Bros.[8] He voiced the characters Wide Wale and Manolo.[2] He is a frequent guest on EW Radio's L.A. Daily on Sirius XM.[9]

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.[10] His roles included the announcer for the segment Beyond Belief, Gummy to Craig Cackowski's Banjo in Mooonshine Holler,[11] Phillip Fathom, and numerous other recurring characters. Through the Thrilling Adventure Hour, Lublin met Jackson Publick, which led to his role on The Venture Bros.[2]

In October 2013 Lublin joined the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, first voicing Steve Carlsberg in a live episode performed in Brooklyn.[1] Lublin has also been a frequent guest in The David Feldman Show.[12] 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, in February 2015.[13][14][15] In July 2015 the podcast joined the Maximum Fun podcast network.[16] Lublin also hosts a weekly wrestling podcast Tights and Fights, which wraps up the week in wrestling, covering major events and storylines. In a 2017 article, The Comeback stated: "These are people who genuinely enjoy pro wrestling from a storytelling perspective, but who also want to dig into what's going on behind the scenes and off-screen as well."[17]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Episode(s) Role
2001 Read or Die Otto Lilienthal,[18] Eliot (voice)[citation needed]
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)[18]
2005 Reeling in Reality Todd Lespinasse
2005 Gregory Shitcock, P.I. S01E01 Lumberjack[19]
2007 Slammo and Sloshie Sloshie/narrator (voice)[2]
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
2016 Mighty Magiswords Season 1 & 2[2] The Great Omnibus, Smashroom, Ice Posey, Crunch Dislikus, Punchica, Pirate 08, Shopkeeper, Toots, Toad, Crowd Man, Galactonian Player 1, Shadow Beast, Hootlydoot, Valet, Horse King,[18] Galactonian Grey Griffin, Store
2017 Adam Ruins Everything "Adam Ruins College" College Bears
2020 Gary Busey: Pet Judge "Hurting Turtle" Hal[20]
2016 - 2023 The Venture Brothers Seasons 6 & 7, Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon's Heart Wide Wale, Manolo,[8] Clayton, Tunnel Vision, Security Guard #1, Jagermeister, Janitor, Wandering Spider, Boy, Whale Lice Henchman 2, Tiny Eagle, Z Henchman[18]

Podcasts

Podcast Episode Date Role
Thrilling Adventure Hour All 2010-2015 WorkJuice Player
The Dead Authors Podcast Appendix A 2011/12/20 Charles Dickens[21]
Chapter 19 2012/12/24 Luke[22]
Chapter 41 2014/12/24 Dr. Seuss[23]
The David Feldman Show Various[12] 2013-2014
Welcome to Night Vale #37.5, #49B, #53, #56.5, #110 2013/10; 2017 Steven Carlsberg[15]
Brock Party #46[24] 2014/04/22
Spontaneanation #12, #21, #25, #33, #40,
#45, #50, #59, #65[25]
2015 Improv actor
We Got This with Mark and Hal All 2015 Co-host with Mark Gagliardi[15]
Tights and Fights All[26] 2016 Host
Surprisingly Nice All 2017 Co-host with Travis McElroy[27]
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
Meddling Adults Scooby Doo and Stonehenge's Running Track w/Hal Lublin & Gabriel Urbina 2020 Guest

References

  1. ^ a b Biese, Alex (9 January 2015). "Thoughts on Steve Carlsberg of 'Welcome to Night Vale'". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Maher, John (2016-03-17). "Hal Lublin Breaks Down 'Venture Bros.' and Playing Up His Asthma: Exclusive". The Dot and Line. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  3. ^ Biese, Alex (2017-07-11). "'Sawbones,' 'We Got This' playing Philadelphia Podcast Festival". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  4. ^ a b c Buske, Wendy (2015-05-18). "Hal Lublin, Voice Actor – Thrilling Adventure Hour, Welcome to Night Vale". Nerd for a Living. Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
  5. ^ "Hal Lublin". Dragoncon. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Hal, the IT Admin". Symantec. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  7. ^ "UN-imation Films". Youtube. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  8. ^ a b Team Misaki Studios (10 September 2015). DragonCon 2015 - Venture Bros (Video). YouTube.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Yarbrough, Beau (9 July 2015). "Comic-Con 2015: 'The Thrilling Adventure Hour' leaps from stage to comics and screen". Los Angeles Daily News.
  11. ^ Biese, Alex (25 August 2015). "'Thrilling Adventure Hour' plots New York City return". Asbury Park Press.
  12. ^ a b "Hal Lublin". DavidFeldman.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ Hershon, Marc (28 March 2015). "Podcast Reviews: We Got This and Always Been Silly". Huffington Post. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  15. ^ a b c Wilbur, Brock (2016-04-08). "Hal Lublin Is The Newest Addition To 'Venture Bros' And 'Welcome to Night Vale'". Inverse. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  16. ^ @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.
  17. ^ "Tights and Fights might just be the perfect pro wrestling podcast". The Comeback. February 21, 2017. Archived from the original on September 13, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  18. ^ a b c d "Hal Lublin (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  19. ^ "Channel 101 - Talent - Hal Lublin". Channel 101. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  20. ^ Murchison, Ben (2020-09-09). "Gary Busey: Pet Judge is Cleverly Absurd". The Pop Break. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  21. ^ "Appendix A: Charles Dickens and O. Henry, featuring Hal Lublin and Marc Evan Jackson". Libsyn. 20 December 2011.
  22. ^ "Chapter 19: The Authors of The Gospels, featuring Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin and Matt Gourley". Libsyn. 24 December 2012.
  23. ^ "Chapter 41: Dr. Seuss, featuring Hal Lublin". Libsyn. 24 December 2014.
  24. ^ "Episode 46: Naomi Grossman, Hal Lublin". Podbean. 22 April 2014.
  25. ^ "Hal Lublin on Earwolf". Earwolf. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  26. ^ "Tights and Fights | Maximum Fun". maximumfun.org. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  27. ^ "Hal and Travis (@TheNiceCast) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
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