Jarrod Van Hauen

Jarrod Van Hauen is an American film director, video editor, scriptwriter, and actor.

Van Hauen began getting interested in the idea of filmmaking when Mike Barkhoff began approaching it seriously at the age of fourteen. Van Hauen had, until then, appeared as an actor in several shorts and helped Barkhoff concoct plots.

Barkhoff tutored Van Hauen's scriptwriting skills for the second season of "The Happy Murder Spree". He also appeared in Timeline (2015), Bond V Batman: Age Of Vengeance, and it's sequel Bond P Batman. He served after school detention alongside Barkhoff for The Moderate Gatsby and stood in front of a filled movie theater giving a speech with him to present Into the Wild. Van Hauen's first mainstream debut came in the form of "Bloodbath", which received attention due to being released shortly after Barkhoff's "Candlelight". Van Hauen was a constant on set for "Spree", the first episode of Chapters., which received ambiguous positive reception, and after that conceived the idea and made "Road Trip", which is regarded amongst the best comedy sketches the crew has mastered.

In 2019, for a brief period, Van Hauen and Barkhoff sparred about personal issues. They reunited and made a Friday The 13th fan film, as well as the short comedy sketch Kit Kat's Kick Ass. 2020 saw Van Hauen remain fairly dormant, which was due to COVID-19 and, prior to that, Barkhoff not able to visit Van Hauen, who lived about forty-five minutes away, to film his scenes for I Give It A Year, where he was set to play his President Jarrod character the duo had originated in High School. Due to this, Barkhoff dug through old projects and reutilized a shelved film, Twisted Sibling, renaming it Invasion.

In 2021, Van Hauen released his debut feature film, Death, My Darling. He also directed an episode of Chapters. (Season 3) and Living Free's first season finale, The Interview. He became more involved with the creation of content, and a cameo was announced for him in Living Free 'soon', hinting at a renewal of that show.

Van Hauen serves as third in command for Live Free and half in command for Barking Vans. For the former, he is producing all primary content for 2022 and on. For the latter, he is promoting it to find the projects successfully completed there syndication to new networks as of 2020 alongside Barkhoff.

He has a Barking Vans tattoo on his left arm. He is the older brother of Dylan Van Hauen.

Short Filmography
2018 - Bloodbath

2018 - Road Trip

2020 - Ebb

Feature Filmography
2021 - Death, My Darling

Discography
2018 - Squid Thoughts (as Lil Squid)

2018 - squid.ink (as DJ Squid)