EP313 - Eric Jason Martin on collaborating with A-List talent

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to legendary voice performer Eric Jason Martin.

Eric talks to us about collaborating with A-list talent to grow and challenge yourself.

Eric Jason Martin is a producer, director, author, and voice performer. He is the AudioFile Earphones and Audie Award–winning narrator of over 350 audiobooks, including works by Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Karin Slaughter, and Lee Child.

He has also narrated over 450 feature articles for the New York Times and Audm, including Michael Chabon’s stories for the New Yorker, as well as stories for Wired, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Eric has created a number of original audio productions. In 2016, he produced a documentary of Tenacious D for Stitcher Premium, featuring Jack Black and Kyle Gass. Later that year, he and Justin Michael co- wrote and co-directed the original scripted audio series Hoot Gibson: Vegas Cowboy, starring Andy Daly, and featuring Weird Al Yankovic, Rachel Bloom, and Paul F. Tompkins. In 2018, he re-teamed with Justin Michael to create the fully-improvised Audible Original Bad Reception, also starring D’Arcy Carden, Kyle Mooney, Lauren Lapkus, Nicole Byer, and many more.