Jeb Corliss Professional BASE Jumper and Wing-Suit Pilot

Bio

Date of birth: March 25th 1976 Nationality: USA Manager: Matt Meyerson RPRT Phone: (310) 806-3672 Email: [email protected]

25 years of experience with over 2000 BASE jumps, in 20 countries on 6 continents.

Over 20 years of wing-suit flying experience with over 5000 wing-suit flights.

Web Page : www.jebcorliss.net FaceBook Page : www.facebook.com/jebcorliss Instagram & Twitter : jebcorliss

1 Television & Film

• Hosted “The Great Global Cleanup” on Discovery with Zac Efron for Earth Day 2020. • Hosted web based talent competition with R&B singer Usher. Show title “Megastar” November through December 2017. • Technical advisor for the wing suit unit and cameo work, “Point Break” to be released summer 2015. • Executive Producer and star of “Wing Suit Warrior, Jeb Corliss Versus the World”. A one hour 3D documentary commissioned by 3Net and began airing in August of 2013. The production company was New Wave Entertainment. • Pan Pacific produced a one hour documentary about his cave flight called “Heavens Gate”. Was purchased by National Geographic International and began airing in November of 2013 world wide. • Firecracker films produced a one hour documentary about his life for channel 4 in the UK called Daredevils: “The Human Bird”. It has now aired all over the world in every territory. It is currently airing on Animal Planet HD in the United States. • Executive producer and star of a one hour documentary called “Journey to the Center”, a story about traveling through China to BASE-jump the deepest vertical cave on planet earth. Aired on Discovery in the USA. • Asylum Productions filmed a one-hour documentary about his life entitled “Fearless”. It was aired on OLN and then later aired on the National Geographic Channel. • Hosted the first season of “Stunt Junkies” on the , episodes 1 through 13. • Hired as safety expert by CBS for all base jumping during the filming of “The Courier”, a micro series that aired prime-time. Also performed many of the jumps.

Features

• Featured on Discovery “Josh Gates Tonight” April 2020. • Featured on ABC’s “The Greatest Megastunts of Al Times” 6/15/2012 voted # one megastunt of all time. • Featured on Conan O’Brien 2/29/2012. • Featured on HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Feb 21st 2012. • Featured on ABC’s 20/20 6/1/2010 in a special report entitled “Super Humans”. • Featured on “Sunday Night”, a news program on Australian TV airing on channel 7 • Featured on “” on the Discovery channel in 2009. • Featured on “Worlds Wildest Vacations” on TruTv in 2009. • Featured on 60 minutes Australia in a show titled "Up,Up and Away”.

2 • Featured on “The Today Show”, “The Morning Show” and “The Colbert Report”. • Featured on 3 episodes of “Real TV” . • Featured on 2 episodes of “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” . • Half hour documentary called “Afican Base”. Produced by Fresh Air Crew. • Had a 9 minute feature done about his base jumping on ESPN “Sport center”. • Featured on an E-60 episode titled "A Wing and A Prayer" on ESPN.

Appearances

• One of 5 people hired by Best Productions to base-jump into the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre- game show for Aerosmith. The 5 were chosen because of their safety records and exceptional skill. • Hired to fly his wing-suit over Paramount Studios doubling Denis Hopper to open the “Taurus World Stunt Awards”.

International Stunts

• Hired by Zippy Productions to fly his wing-suit down Mount Fuji for a Japanese TV production. • Hired by Globo Network to fly his wing-suit under the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro for the “Caldeirao do Huck show”.

Live Events

• “Heavens Gate” was a megastunt that aired live on CCTV and Hunan TV to greater China in 2011. RedBull China was responsible for the marketing and it reached an estimated viewership of hundreds of millions of people. There were three documentaries made about the live event, two in Chinese and one in english. The one hour Chinese speaking version had a viewership of 40 million people on its first airing. The english speaking version was licensed to National Geographic International and has aired all over the world.

3 • “Flying Dager” was the second live megastunt to be aired on CCTV and Hunan TV to greater China in 2013. The Flying Dagger again got hundreds of millions of viewers to tune in during the live broadcast. Both ABC and NBC embedding news crews for the lead up and the execution of the event. CNN, FOX, CBS, BBC and Reuters were just a few of the news outlets to cover the story around the world. There was an english speaking documentary made about the event that was licensed by National Geographic International. • Hired by the Chinese government to jump the Jin Moa Tower in Shanghai for a TV special called “The International Base Jumping Show”. It was aired live to Asia and had hundreds of thousands of spectators on location. • Hired by Marina Bay Sands Singapore to organize a skydiving demonstration for the grand opening of their integrated resort in April of 2010. • Hired by REDFILO for the International Defense Expo in Abu Dhabi 2011. Was part of the opening ceremonies flying wing-suits in formation and opening parachutes at 500ft above the crowd. • Hired by the Malaysian government to base jump the Petronas Towers for their 2000 to 2001 new year celebration. Broke a world record for largest base jumping formation from a building. 15 people jumped the building simultaneously in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators live including the prime minister of the country.

Motivational Speeches

• TedxUSC, July 2010 - Speech on fear. • Virgin Galactic, March 2012 - Speech on risk evaluation and working under high stress conditions. • TedxPortland, April 2012 - Speech on dreams and over coming fear. • Ideas Week, Chicago, October 18th 2013 - Speech on training and skill. • WeDay, United Kingdom, March 2014 - Speakers included Al Gore, Richard Branson and Prince Harry to name a few. Speech was to 17,000 children at Wembley Arena on dreams and over coming obstacles. • WUKAR, San Diego, November 8th 2014 - One hour KeyNote speech on fear and the importance of passion. • Swiss Economic Forum, Interlaken Switzerland, June 2015, guest speaker on risk evaluation. • Flight Centre, Singapore, July 17 2016 - Key Note speaker for over 3300 top employees. Speech was tailer made for Flight Centre based on their specifications.

4 Commercials and Campaigns

• Lexus - Step Forward, was a campaign for their new

RX SUV. 60, 30 and 15 second TV add spots

internationally. 60 second spot aired in over 1000

movie theaters across Australia. There were three

lead in social media short films launched just days

before the add hit the air. The campaign also had a

VR 360 component so people could experience it

like they were doing the jump themselves. Aired

from the end of 2015 through August 2016. https://

youtu.be/KjsK5hksHYM

• RedBul China - Ad depicting Jeb Corliss in a wing

suit trying to make it to a party on time. Aired

throughout China for 8 months on all major

networks. Played in all Chinese airports on a loop

for a month. There was also a massive billboard

campaign that went along with the ad across bus

stops and buildings everywhere in China. https://

youtu.be/7RaOMluN4bk

• Breitling - The Anthem was a campaign shot in six

locations featuring seven aviation adventurers

including space shuttle commander Mark Kelly,

fighter pilot Dan Hampton, wing suit pilot Jeb

Corliss, bush pilot Paul Claus, champion aerobatic

pilot Hannes Arch and world champion aerobatic

pilot Aude Lemordant, February 2016. https://

youtu.be/7OdLV7s32BU

5 Web Links

Jeb Corliss: “Grinding the Crack” http://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k

E:60 Feature: “A Wing and a Prayer” (ESPN) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgJndUtUsY

ITN News: “RedBull China cave fly through” (CCTV) http://youtu.be/6t0xqNln5RU

Conan O’Brien: “Jeb Corliss” (TBS) https://youtu.be/PhsK_XTIMc0

Megastunt countdown: “20 greatest megastunts of all time” (ABC) http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/megastunts-dangerous-sport-16582497

Super Bowl XXXVIII: “Pre-game show with Aerosmith” (CBS) https://youtu.be/M_nYVGXLYA4

CBS News: “Man or Flying Squirrel?” (CBS) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3609452n&tag=related;photovideo

60 Minutes Australia: “Up, Up and Away” http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/liambartlett/454245/up-up-and-away

Dare Devils: “ The Human Bird” (Animal Planet HD) http://youtu.be/nJdqMgMKI0s

Articles

Popular Mechanics: “The Man in the Black Flying Suit” (June 2010) http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/diy-flying/high-flying-wingsuit-adventures

RolingStone: “Sky King” (July 2009) http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/sports-on-the-edge-jeb-corliss-sky-king-20090723

Outside: “The Fall Guy” (February 2009) http://outsideonline.com/outside/culture/200902/jeb-corliss-base-jumping-1.html

The New York Times: “Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute” (December 10, 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/sports/othersports/10flying.html

Air & Space: “Jump. Fly. Land.” (November 1, 2010) http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/Jump-Fly-Land.html

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