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, and the Trenchcoat Demon in "Overture" of the Hazbin Hotel series.
Biography
Lauer was born in Woodinville, Washington, USA, and raised in Asia. He graduated of New York University 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.
Roles
Hazbin Hotel
("Overture")
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 from Hunt Down the Freeman. He's also portrayed numerous roles in the Markiplier Cinematic Universe, such as Abe The Detective from Who Killed Markiplier? and Wilford Motherloving Warfstache, Mr. Murder-Slaughter (the Warden) from A Heist With Markiplier, and Gunther B. Gunnerson from In Space with Markiplier. He's also a recurring voice actor in the Something About game parody series by animator Jeremey "TerminalMontage" Chinshue.
- He and Edward Bosco can do great impressions of Sir Pentious.[1]
- As a skilled artist, Mick contributed two poster design concepts of Husk for some of the Streamily autograph events. This makes him one of the two Hellaverse voice alumni to contribute merchandise design for the franchise; the other being Brandon Rogers.[2]
- While Mick Lauer, the pilot voice actor of Husk, did return in the Hazbin Hotel series, he only voiced as the Trenchcoat Demon.
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