Mick Lauer

Mick William Lauer, also known as Ricepirate, is a Taiwanese-American animator and actor. He along with Stamper are a part of a podcast called SleepyCabin on YouTube.

He provided the voice for Husk in the Hazbin Hotel pilot.

Biography
Lauer was born in Woodinville, Washington, USA, and raised in Asia. He graduated of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for performance studies, with three years of conservatory training from the Atlantic Theater Company, one year at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (London), a final year focusing on film & television performance with the StoneStreet Studio, and additional training in improvisation at UCB (NYC).

Lauer trained in voice acting under Jay Snyder (Dan Green) at Edge Studio (NYC) and represented by the team at Dean Panaro Talent (LA).

Mick got a start on his career on the site Newgrounds where he became very popular for his parody animations, most notably, Dot Dot Dot. He continued doing animations on his YouTube channel.

Trivia

 * His nickname, Ricepirate, is his online Newgrounds and YouTube channel handle.
 * He is a skilled flash-animator having made several parody and original animations, and a comic book artist.
 * The first language Mick was taught was Mandarin Chinese.
 * He is an avid gamer who has been known to play games like Super Meat Boy and post them to his YouTube channel.
 * Outside of Hazbin Hotel, he also voices Marrow Amin from RWBY, Leone Abbacchio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, and Mitchell Shephard in Hunt Down the Freeman. He's also portrayed numerous roles in the Markiplier Cinematic Universe, such as Abe The Detective in Who Killed Markiplier? and Wilford Motherloving Warfstache, Mr. Murder-Slaughter (the Warden) in A Heist With Markiplier, and Gunther B. Gunnerson in In Space with Markiplier. He's also a recurring voice actor in the Something About game parody series by animator Jeremey "TerminalMontage" Chinshue.
 * Mick's roles in Hazbin Hotel and RWBY contradict each other, with Husk being a cat demon and Marrow being a Dog Faunus.
 * He and Edward Bosco can do great impressions of Sir Pentious.
 * As a skilled artist, Mick contributed two poster design concepts of Husk for some of the Stramily autograph events. This makes him one of the two Hazbin/Helluva voice alumni to contribute merchandise design for the franchise; the other being Brandon Rogers.