Luther Burbank Center for the Arts presents Nick Offerman: Big Woodchuck

Actor, author, humorist, and woodworker Nick Offerman is back to remind the fans of sawdust what a living, breathing mammal, unsullied by AI, looks like. With songs and notions inspired by his newest book, Little Woodchucks, Offerman, with support from woodworker and co-author Lee Buchanan, might just inspire you to get busy making things with your own hands, which is guaranteed to get you kissed. Especially if what you make is sausage rolls.

Offerman’s onscreen credits include the Emmy award-winning role of Bill in The Last of Us (HBO), Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Forest in Devs, and Karl Weathers in the FX series Fargo. He has written six New York Times Bestselling books: Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, written with his wife, Megan Mullally. His latest book, Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery, is a narrative woodworking guide for kids, large and small.

Recent and upcoming projects include Death by Lightning (Netflix), Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Sovereign, Civil War (written and directed by Alex Garland), Pout Pout Fish, Origin (written and directed by Ava DuVernay), The Life of Chuck, The Umbrella Academy, and NBC’s Making It (co-host and executive producer). He is the voice of Beef Tobin in the FOX animated series. The Great North, and audiobook narrator for Wendell Berry’s The Need to Be Whole. In his spare time, he can be found at his woodshop in Los Angeles building hand-crafted items from wood, ranging from spoons and canoes to ukuleles.