Hayes is off to a great start in 2019, with roles in the upcoming feature films “Half Brothers” by Focus Features and the feature comedy “Supercool” starring Damon Wayans Jr. and Iliza Shlesinger.

Hayes has starred in several indie feature films including "Art House" with Greta Gerwig and Iggy Pop, "Starlight & Superfish" with Wendi McLendon-Covey, and “Beyond the Pale” with Mindy Sterling.

Hayes began his acting career at the famed Groundlings, and having performed standup all over NYC and LA (opening for Galifianakis, Bamford, Goldthwait), he has since guest-hosted The Armando Show at iO West, ASSSSCAT at Upright Citizens Brigade alongside Amy Poehler, and was recently a Special Guest Performer in "An Evening of Comedy with Bob Odenkirk and Friends" raising a grip of money for non-profit children's theater. Hayes also taught improv to actors as a Guest Instructor at George R.R. Martin’s Stagecoach Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Recent TV roles include Showtime's "Masters of Sex,” TNT’s “Major Crimes,” and Pop TV’s original detective comedy "Swedish Dicks" with Peter Stormare and Keanu Reeves. In 2019, Hayes is recurring on Netflix’s “Chambers” starring Uma Thurman, lending his voice to truTV’s Broken Lizard laugher "Tacoma FD,” appearing on the upcoming CBS series “Interrogation” starring Peter Sarsgaard, and the NBC legal drama, Bluff City Law, opposite Jimmy Smits.

James Houlahan's music is an ethereal mix of acoustic roots, alternative folk, and strange flights of sonic alchemy. His original songs combine traditional forms and simple melodies with evocative language and stark imagery. Influenced by a tradition that includes Dylan, Waits, Young, and Cohen.

Flight Lessons

Flight Lessons is whatever it wants to be.  A project of David Sparrow of Los Angeles based rock band Burning Jet Black, the idea was created as an outlet for songwriting and collaboration.
Being a part of a band, there always tends to be material that just doesn’t “fit,” so in that spirit, these songs are open for interpretation by whoever happens to be willing to add something new to the bare bone structures.
If it turns into a folk song, so be it.  If it turns into a balls to the wall rock tune, so be it.  The existing material is all very sparse with the full intention of reinventing it in a live situation.

The live version of Flight Lessons was only recently born in April of 2013 with its first inception being David Sparrow accompanied by Ben Levy of local band, The Vintage Tuesday.  
Although it’s not a foreign concept of joining violin and guitar, the camaraderie of Levy and Sparrow created a new vibe to the existing music.  Not exactly rock n’ roll, but not sad bastard songwriter territory either.

As the project is only just taking off (pun intended) there’s not much else to say, except Sparrow is excited to see where it goes.


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