Nick Offerman Career Retrospective

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Nick Offerman Career Retrospective

Nick Offerman

Thursday, August 20, 2026

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Join us for a 90-minute Career Retrospective of actor Nick Offerman, moderated by Jenelle Riley.

BIO:

Nick Offerman is an actor, author, humorist and woodworker whose credits include the Emmy award-winning role of Bill in The Last of Us (HBO), Jinx in Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple), 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, including his latest, Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery. Recent screen projects include Death by Lightning (Netflix), Sovereign, Voicemails For Isabelle (Netflix), Civil War (written and directed by Alex Garland), The Pout Pout Fish, Origin (written and directed by Ava DuVernay), Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Fargo (FX), Smurfs, The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), 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 latest, The Need to Be Whole, as well as The Unsettling of America and The World-Ending Fire. Offerman produced two documentaries about regenerative agriculture Look & See, and A Fork In The Road. In 2026, he will co-star in the new musical Iceboy! opposite his wife Megan Mullally at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and hosts the WNYC radio series A Wonder Is What It Is, dedicated to Wendell Berry.  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.

Photo by: Joe Carrotta