Scott Brick

Infobox person
name = Scott Brick


caption = Scott with his Horbucher Fan Club
birth_date = birth date and age|1966|1|30|
birth_place = Santa Barbara, California, US
occupation = Actor, Writer, Narrator
website = [http://www.scottbrickpresents.com/ Scott Brick Presents]

Scott Brick (born January 30, 1966) is an American actor, writer and a prolific, award-winning narrator of hundreds of audiobooks, including "In Cold Blood", "Dune", and "Fahrenheit 451" for a number of high profile authors including Joseph Finder, Nelson DeMille, Harlan Coban, Brad Meltzer, Frank and Brian Herbert, Orson Scott Card, Steve Berry, Gene Wilder, Tom Clancy, Phillip K Dick, David Baldacci, Dennis Lehane, Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child, Stephen J Cannell, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Clive Cussler and Isaac Asimov, among others.

Career Overview

Audiobooks

In 2000, Brick began narrating audiobooks and quickly found himself a rising star in that arena. He has won over 40 Earphone Awards as well as the 2003 Audie Award for "". Audiophile Magazine named him “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy." [ [http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/gvpages/brick.shtml Audiofile Magazine Narrator Page for Scott Brick] ] "The Wall Street Journal" would seal his audiobook celebrity with a front-page article in November, 2004 declaring him "a golden voice" [ [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB109995102369967998.html Wall Street Journal Article From November of 2004] ] and in 2007, Scott was named Publishers Weekly’s Narrator of the Year. [ [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6403003.html Publishers Weekly 2007 Narrator of the Year Article] ]

With over 400 recordings under his belt and a rapidly increasing demand for his talents, Scott formed his own audiobook studio with the goal of streamlining production and ensuring consistency throughout his body of work. In May of 2008, Brick By Brick Audio released Stephen R. Donaldson's "Lord Foul's Bane" and "Fatal Revenant", with more releases to follow. When completed, this debut project will result in new unabridged audio narrations of all 10 of the "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever":

The First Chronicles trilogy was released in print from 1977 to 1979, The Second Chronicles trilogy was released in print from 1980 to 1983 and The Last Chronicles tetralogy released in print and audio format from 2004 to 2013.

creenwriting

In 2000, Brick was hired to adapt Arthur C. Clarke’s "Rendezvous with Rama" for the big screen by Morgan Freeman and Revelations Entertainment. [ [http://countingdown.com/movies/546768/news?item_id=931480 Rendezvous With Rama Interview of Screenwriter Scott Brick] ]

tage & Cinema

Brick spent 10 years with the LA-based traveling Shakespeare troupe, Will and Company, performing for schools throughout California. He has appeared as Cyrano, Hamlet, and Macbeth in productions throughout the country. Recently, he collaborated with author Orson Scott Card to adapt a collection of the latter’s short stories for the stage in a production titled Posing as People.

In 2008, Brick appears in THE DELIVERY, a short film from Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle DeCuir and Skyboat Films starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Michael York, John Rubinstein, Stephanie Zimbalist, Harlan Ellison and Orson Scott Card among others. THE DELIVERY was named a 2008 Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival Selection. [ [http://filmfest.dragoncon.org/filmfest08.htm Dragon*Con 2008 Film Festival Selections Webpage] ] The trailer for THE DELIVERY can be viewed online. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZ5qQPw5to Video Trailer for the Short Film THE DELIVERY] ]

Fiction Writing

Brick is currently writing his first novel, a modern-day supernatural thriller based on an 18th century murder in New England.

Biographical Information

Born in Santa Barbara, California on January 30, 1966, studied acting at writing at UCLA before embarking on his professional career in 1989. [ [http://www.scottbrickpresents.com/wordpress/bio/ A Biography of Scott Brick From His Website] ] He lives in the Greater Los Angeles area with his two dogs.

elected Bibliography

* Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
* Devil in the White City" by Erik Larsen
* Dune" by Frank Herbert
* Legends of Dune" Prequel Series:
** " by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (2003 Audie Award-Winner) [ [http://www.dunenovels.com/news/jihad_award.html Webpage for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad] ]
** " by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
** " by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
* Shannara" Series - Initial Prequel and Original Shannara Trilogy:
**First King of Shannara" by Terry Brooks
**The Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks
**The Elfstones of Shannara" by Terry Brooks
**The Wishsong of Shannara" by Terry Brooks
* Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
* Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
* The First Counsel" by Brad Meltzer
* Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
* The Godfather Returns" by Mark Winegardner
* In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
* It's Superman" by Tom De Haven
* Light in August" by William Faulkner
* Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane
* The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
* " by Mark Kurlansky
* Sideways" by Rex Pickett
* [http://www.scottbrickpresents.com/wordpress/library/ Additional Bibliographic Listings]

Notes

External Links

* [http://www.scottbrickpresents.com Scott Brick Presents - Primary Artist Site]
* [http://www.tantor.com/NarratorDetail.asp?Narrator=Brick_S Tantor Media Narrator Detail Page for Scott Brick]
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6403003.html Publishers Weekly 2007 Narrator of the Year Interview]
* [http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/gvpages/brick.shtml Audio File Magazine Golden Voice Interview and Audiography]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UO0fzAICN8 Video of Scott Brick reading Harlan Coben's novel THE WOODS]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZ5qQPw5to Trailer for THE DELIVERY - a Short Film in which Scott Brick Appears]