Graham Stark
Graham Stark |
Graham's About Page Picture |
Pronouns: He / Him |
Date of Birth: June 6, 1984 |
Family: Kathleen De Vere (wife), Stuart Stark (father), Margaret Graham-Bell (mother), Kate Stark (sister), Penelope Stark (daughter) |
LRR |
Duties: Co-Creator, Director, Editor, Writer, Actor |
First Appearance: A Brief History of Lame (24 October 2003) |
Last Appearance: Dice Friends - Brides and Berserkers Ep1 (7 October 2024) |
Recurring Characters: G-Star, Quentin Jones, Story Guy, Jonny, Shush Guy, Ross Hartas, Steve Clark, Cardboard Man, Krog, Gibb, G-Money |
Desert Bus |
Duties: Graphic Designer, Driver, Actor |
First Appearance: Desert Bus for Hope 1 (22 November 2007) |
Last Appearance: Desert Bus for Hope 2023 (11 November 2023) |
Online |
Website: Moonbase Alpha |
Twitter: @Graham_LRR |
Mastodon: @Graham_LRR@kind.social |
Instagram: graham_lrr |
YouTube: Graham Stark |
Graham Stuart Rupert Stark is, along with Paul Saunders, one of the founding members of LoadingReadyRun. His contributions to LRR include editing and composing the raw video footage, being one of the primary writers, and directing and acting in the majority of videos. He also wrote the comic Roomies.
Graham's sister Kate is also associated with the site while both Graham's parents, Margaret Graham-Bell and Stuart Stark, have also appeared in videos.
Graham previously lived with Matt Wiggins in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and with Morgan vanHumbeck and Bill Watt before that in Bill's Place v2.0. Graham attended Oak Bay High School where he was involved in the school's drama program, both behind the scenes and as an actor. Before the start of LoadingReadyRun, Graham made several videos with future members of the LoadingReadyRun crew, such as After Hours: Quest for the Grail, which he co-wrote with Paul for the Oak Bay High Film Festival.
Graham attended the University of Victoria where he studied visual arts with a focus on film and video. He served as the graphics editor of the Martlet, UVic's student paper. Graham also worked in the marketing department of Pixpo, where he was part of the Idiot Room video podcast. He once worked as a magician, focusing on balloon animals.
Sometime prior to Desert Bus for Hope 6, Graham and longtime girlfriend and LRR crewmember Kathleen De Vere became engaged. They were married on July 5th, 2014.
In late June 2022, Graham disclosed during the Hot Poetry Inside episode of LoadingReadyLIVE that he was undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma. On November 14, 2022, during Desert Bus 2022, Graham announced to chat that he was cancer-free.
He keeps an ice on him to ward off wandering drunks. His hat size is 7 and 5/8ths, and his height is 6' 3".
DB Crew
Has been a Desert Bus Crew member on the following runs:
- Desert Bus for Hope 1
- Desert Bus for Hope 2
- Desert Bus for Hope 3
- Desert Bus for Hope 4
- Desert Bus for Hope 5
External Links
Crew Graham Stark Filmography | |||||||
Crew | Kathleen De Vere · Brendan "Beej" Dery · Heather Dery · Coriander Dickinson · Matt Griffiths · Ian Horner · Cameron Lauder · Nelson Salahub · Paul Saunders · Adam Savidan · Graham Stark · Alex Steacy · James Turner · Ben Ulmer · Benjamin Wheeler · Serge Yager | ||||||
Contributors | Jacob Burgess · Andrew Cownden · Dale Friesen · Devin Harrigan (Featherweight) · Matt Wiggins | ||||||
Past Crew | Jeremy Petter · Tim Sevenhuysen · Morgan vanHumbeck · Bill Watt |