HMSG Interview Whit Flint! “Eraserhead”

This week we finally chat about one of our favorite films, David Lynch’s debut feature, ERASERHEAD (1977). We brought along all of our sweet baby faces to discuss, including friend of the show and multi-hyphenate Whit Flint to get into all the gory details!  

We hope you enjoy this freshly served episode!

Pardon some of our sound elements this episode! We had some technical challenges this week with our audio in some spots! Sierra is on vacation! 

More about our Guest!

Whit Flint is a theatre and film writer / director, known for a style and avant garde approach based in new European surrealism and theatre of the absurd. He has directed over 30 productions internationally and serves as Artistic Director of the theatre collective, Riot Act, founded in 2015 in East London. 

Whit received his MFA from East 15 at The University of Essex in the UK and also studied at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow. He was also a member of the Young Vic Directors’ Programme and an Invitee Director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. His life’s obsession with the plays of Anton Chekhov has led him to adapt and direct all of the iconic writer’s major works, including a radical reimagining of The Seagull entitled The Misbegotten Hope of the Dirty Bird, which will premiere in Brooklyn, New York Fall of 2026. 

As a filmmaker he wrote and directed Artéfact’s recent short films, Lulu and a meditation of Sophocles’ plays, Tragic Figure. 

As an actor, Whit’s career spans four and a half decades, most notably in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and most recently received a Broadway World Best Performer nomination as Vanya in the site specific production, Gross Old Man. Whit is also an accomplished abstract painter and is based in Los Angeles.

Whit Flint on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381035/?ref_=mv_desc

Follow Whit Flint here: https://www.instagram.com/whithertford/

Check out Whit’s Art here: https://www.instagram.com/whitflint/

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