JEFF HILLER: STAR OF STAGE & SCREEN

11:30 am - 12:15 pm
| Location of Session: Russell Hill Rogers Tent
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 12:30 PM
| Signing Location: Adult Signing Tent

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About the Event

Comedian and Emmy Award–winning actor Jeff Hiller (Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success) shares his journey from growing up “profoundly gay” in 1980s San Antonio, Texas, to his experiences as an inept social worker and how he clawed, scraped, and brawled to Hollywood’s lower middle-tier. After 25 years of guest roles on TV and performing improv in a grocery-store basement, he finally struck gold with a breakout role on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere playing Joel—the kind of best friend everyone wishes they had. This session is for every one of us, and our best friends, who have a dream that we’re chasing, and chasing, and chasing.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Gregory Kramer

Jeff Hiller

Jeff Hiller is an Emmy Award–winning actor, writer, and comedian who has appeared on TV shows such as Somebody Somewhere, American Horror Story: NYC, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 30 Rock, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent, among numerous others. His film roles include Greta, Morning Glory, Ghost Town, and Set It Up, and he has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, in Shakespeare in the Park, Disney musicals, and regional theater. Jeff regularly performs solo shows at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater and improvises at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA and NYC. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas.

Jeff is joining the Book Festival to discuss his memoir, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success.

Moderator

Michael Quintanilla

Michael Quintanilla is a San Antonio native and graduate of Trinity University. He landed his first job as a crime reporter at the San Antonio Express-News more than 40 years ago. He later covered fashion, style, and other subjects for the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, and other publications, before returning to the Express-News, where he ultimately retired.

He spends his time emceeing events and designing his famous Fiesta hats, which have gotten him dubbed “Mr. Fiesta.”