Bill Corbett

Bill Corbett adalah mantan penulis MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 dan juga pemain di acara tersebut, mengisi suara robot Crow (v.2.0) dan memainkan berbagai karakter aneh lainnya -- termasuk alien yang sangat kuat namun tidak mengerti apa-apa, The Observer (a.k.a. "Brain Guy"). Corbett juga seorang penulis skenario dan dramawan. Skenario Corbett STARSHIP DAVE, yang ditulis bersama Rob Greenberg, dibuat menjadi film MEET DAVE yang dibintangi Eddie Murphy, dirilis oleh 20th Century Fox. Dramanya telah diproduksi secara internasional. Komedi Corbett THE BIG SLAM telah diproduksi di banyak bioskop di AS, termasuk Woolly Mammoth di Washington, D.C.; ACT di Seattle; dan Teater Mawar Ungu milik aktor Jeff Daniels di Chelsea, Michigan. Drama lainnya termasuk HATE MAIL, THE STUFF OF DREAMS, dan mashup liburan buku komiknya SUPER-POWERED-REVENGE CHRISTMAS #1. Dia telah menjadi penulis kontributor untuk PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION Radio Publik Nasional dan SEMUA HAL YANG DIPERTIMBANGKAN, dan merupakan salah satu pencipta serial web animasi POKER NIGHT di Icebox.com. Corbett juga pernah menjadi aktor di perusahaan akting tetap di Teater Guthrie dan Festival Teater Berkshire, dan telah mengajar penulisan naskah drama dan penulisan skenario di Kenyon College di Ohio, Teater Guthrie di Minneapolis, dan banyak universitas serta sekolah lainnya. Dia lulusan Yale School of Drama, di mana dia memperoleh gelar MFA dalam penulisan naskah drama dan penulisan skenario. Sebelumnya, ia mendapat gelar BA dari Yale College. Berasal dari Brooklyn, N.Y., dia sekarang tinggal di Minneapolis bersama istrinya Virginia, kedua anak mereka, dan Jack Russell Terrier yang penuh semangat.

Bill Corbett is a former writer for MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 and also a performer on the show, providing the voice of the robot Crow (v.2.0) and playing various other strange characters -- including the all-powerful but clueless alien The Observer (a.k.a. "Brain Guy"). Corbett is also a screenwriter and playwright. Corbett's screenplay STARSHIP DAVE, co-written with Rob Greenberg, was made into the movie MEET DAVE starring Eddie Murphy, released by 20th Century Fox. His plays have been produced internationally. Corbett's comedy THE BIG SLAM has been produced at numerous theaters across the U.S., including Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C.; ACT in Seattle; and actor Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, Michigan. Other plays include HATE MAIL, THE STUFF OF DREAMS, and his comic book holiday mashup SUPER-POWERED-REVENGE CHRISTMAS #1. He has been a contributing writer to National Public Radio's PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, and is co-creator of the animated web series POKER NIGHT on Icebox.com. Corbett has also been an actor in the resident acting companies at the Guthrie Theater and the Berkshire Theater Festival, and has taught playwriting and screenwriting at Kenyon College in Ohio, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and many other universities and schools. He's a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he earned an MFA in playwriting and screenwriting. Before that, he received a BA from Yale College. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he now lives in Minneapolis with his wife Virginia, their two children, and a feisty Jack Russell Terrier.