Edwin Lee Gibson Joins Cast of 'Air Bud Returns'

 

Edwin Lee Gibson

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Bear’s Edwin Lee Gibson continues to expand his creative landscape. In September, he joined the cast of Air Bud Returns, the newest chapter in the beloved family film franchise. This month, he unveiled the teaser for his directorial debut, a pink and red dress, made of satin... covered in flowers, mostly roses. (APARD) Both projects explore legacy in their own language. In Air Bud Returns, Gibson plays Jack, the guiding force for Jacob, a kid navigating grief and self-discovery. Directed by franchise creator Robert Vince, the film features a cast including Aydin Artis, Tracy Ifeachor, and Tyler Labine. Air Bud Returns wrapped production in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week.   APARD, filmed on location in Tucson, Arizona, explores memory, mysticism, love, and loss. Set in a sleepy border town, the 15-minute short includes stage and screen veterans Erica Tazel, A. Russell Andrews, and Victoria Rowell, along with newcomer Juliette Ortega and Hip Hop Artist, Buddy.   These projects, along with his two-episode turn in Amazon Prime’s Fallout, Season 2, further reveal Gibson’s dynamic range and his artistic philosophy that truth is uncovered when you allow the story to tell itself. The teaser is a pink and red dress, made of satin... covered in flowers, mostly roses. is now live at thespisbrownlaboratory.org/apard.   Air Bud Returns is set for a Summer 2026 theatrical release. Season 2 of Fallout debuts December 17, 2025, on Amazon Prime.   ABOUT EDWIN LEE GIBSON A self-described “theatre rat,” Gibson began performing professionally at 16 and has since appeared in over 100 productions. He earned a 2006 OBIE Award for Outstanding Performance for his radical portrayal of Oedipus in The Seven at New York Theatre Workshop—a role critics could not forget: •           “Most spectacularly, there’s Edwin Lee Gibson’s Oedipus, an outrageous, comically toxic blend of Superfly, B.B. King, and Al Jolson.” — Village Voice •           “Mr. Gibson’s Oedipus is the show’s presiding spirit: smooth of tongue, limber of leg and always in your face.” — The New York Times   International acclaim followed when he was invited by the late Peter Brook to join his legendary company in residence at London’s National Theatre Studio and Paris’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.   His layered, genre-defying work has been profiled by The New York Times, Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, and The Washington Post. Of his current role, The Wall Street Journal wrote:   “Then someone like the meat chef Ebraheim (a terrific Edwin Lee Gibson) says something dryly hilarious and the pressure is released from the cooker.”   Off-stage, Gibson has written and performed in nationally commissioned solo works, contributed to The Moth, and written multiple pilots and screenplays. He is an alum of the Sony Pictures Television Writing Program and a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, and New York Theatre Workshop’s Usual Suspects.