Special Guests
At LVL UP EXPO, we feature a variety of SPECIAL GUESTS each year to give fans the opportunity to peek behind the curtain and see the talent behind their favorite characters, comic book illustrators, cosplayers, Twitch Streamers, YouTube Stars, and more!
2022 Special Guests
Ray Chase
Ray is an actor who has attached himself to a great many video games and anime in a very short amount of time. In the last few years, fans recognize him as the main character Noctis in FINAL FANTASY XV, the Male Player in ANTHEM, Master of Masters from KINGDOM HEARTS, Artorius from TALES OF BERSERIA, Roy/Gaius/Alphonse/Fernand from FIRE EMBLEM, Eve from NIER AUTOMATA, and his most celebrated role as the Subway Announcer in PERSONA 5. He’s also made appearances in GOD OF WAR, MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA, HORIZON: ZERO DAWN, DEUS EX: MD, XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X, and TYRANNY. His anime roles include Roswaal in RE:ZERO, Keith Flick in B: THE BEGINNING,, Puri Puri Prisoner in ONE PUNCH MAN, Yuu Otosaka in CHARLOTTE, Yukiatsu in ANOHANA: THE FLOWER WE SAW THAT DAY, Howzer in SEVEN DEADLY SINS, Hanzo/Squala in HUNTER x HUNTER, Rubber Soul in JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE, as well as joining the casts of YOUR NAME, BERSERK, MOB PSYCHO 100, GUNDAM: IRON BLOODED ORPHANS, BLUE EXORCIST, FAIRY TAIL, and many others! He is a proud founding member of the comedy and gaming troupe Loud, Annoying, and Very Annoying (LAVA), which he shares with fellow actors Max MIttelman and Robbie Daymond.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $40
Selfies: $20
Video & Audio Recording: $50
Barbara Dunkelman
Barbara Dunkelman is an actor/voice actor based in Austin, TX, and is known for her voice roles in various Rooster Teeth
Productions including Yang in RWBY, Jensen in Red vs. Blue, Nerris in Camp Camp, and ORF in X-Ray & Vav. She is also one
of the main on-camera personalities at Rooster Teeth; she is the host of the Always Open podcast, and often appears on the
Rooster Teeth Podcast, Immersion, Million Dollars, But…, and much more.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Robbie Daymond
In the Anime world Robbie may be best known as the most prolific voice of Tuxedo Mask in VIZ’s dub of Sailor Moon & Sailor Moon Crystal. He’s also played several lead and fan-favorite roles such as: Ikoma in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Mumen Rider in One Punch Man, Mitsuki in Boruto, Joe Kido in Digimon Adventure tri., Chrollo in HxH, Ren Tsuruga in Skip Beat, and voiced other shows such as: Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, The Seven Deadly Sins, Naruto Shippuden, Occultic Nine, Tales of Zestiria the X, Cyborg 009, K: Return of Kings, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Sword Art Online 2, God Eater, TerraforMARS, Magi; the Adventures of Sinbad, Durararax2, Charlotte, Lupin the 3rd, Aldnoah Zero, Your Lie in April, Glitter Force, Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals. There are also a few others coming up that he can’t mention quite yet…
In western animation, Robbie has starred as series-lead in several shows such as: Spider-man/Peter Parker in Marvel’s Spider-man, Sway Sway in Breadwinners, Blake in Get Blake, & Tink in Bottersnikes and Gumbles. He has guest-starred and reoccurred on other popular cartoons like, Star Wars Rebels, Avengers Assemble, OK-KO Let’s be Heroes, Pinky Malinky, Costume Quest, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Ever After High, Little People and The Tom & Jerry Show. He has also voiced characters in several feature films, including Shoya in A Silent Voice, Toneri Otsutsuki in Naruto the Last, Mitsuki in Boruto; Naruto the Movie, Porta in Patema Inverted, Lino is Gundam the Origin III, Leo in Barbie: Starlight Adventures and the Fairy Cronies in Strange Magic, among others.
Robbie’s also very active in video games, and can be heard in Final Fantasy XV as Prompto, Tales of Zestiria as Sorey, Persona 5 as Akechi, TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan as Michelangelo, Agents of Mayhem as August Gaunt, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite as Spider-man, Final Fantasy Type-0, Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Division, Nier Automata, Fire Emblem: Echoes, Fire Emblem: Heroes, God Eater 1&2, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lego Marvel’s Avengers, Friday the 13th, The Lego Movie Videogame, Technomancer, Trials of Cold Steel II, Akiba’s Beat, Masquerada, Aion, Stella Glow, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Atelier Sophie, Exist Archive, Grand Chase, Skyforge, Forbidden Magna, Lineage 2, Etrian Odyssey Untold II, Blade & Soul, Fairy Fencer F and many more!
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $40
Selfies: $20
Video & Audio Recording: $50
Arryn Zech
Arryn Zech is an American actress best known for her role as Blake Belladonna from RWBY. She also voices the character Dr. Emily Grey in the longest running web-based series, Red vs. Blue, created by the Austin-based production company, Rooster Teeth. Arryn was born in Rota, Spain, but was raised in the city of New Braunfels, Texas. She attended the North East School of Arts high-school in San Antonio, Texas, where she
majored in Musical Theatre. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors of Journalism in Copy Editing and Design, but found her passions still lie with acting and singing. She worked at the university’s student run television station, TSTV, where she worked as an actress, writer, and host for multiple shows including Videogame Hour Live and Still Life.
With over 10 years of training in theatre, various acting methods, and classical voice, Arryn is now based in LA pursing her career in film and television. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @ArrynZech.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Max Mittelman
Although he is well known as Saitama in ONE-PUNCH MAN, he’s also given life the hotheaded troublemaker with a heart of gold, Ryuji, in PERSONA 5, the carefree and always hungry, Plagg, in MIRACULOUS LADYBUG, and the lazy yet virtuous sin of sloth, King, from SEVEN DEADLY SINS.
Other notable roles include: FIRE EMBLEM (Leo, Gray, Kaden, Forrest, Gordin), MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN (Harry Osborn), YOUR LIE IN APRIL (Kousei), KINGDOM HEARTS 2.8 (Luxu), BEN 10 (Overflow), FALLOUT 4 (Zeke), MOB PSYCHO 100 (Ritsu), TRANSFORMERS (Blurr), JUSTICE LEAGUE: ACTION (Jimmy Olsen), ELENA OF AVALOR (Bobo), WORLD OF WARCRAFT (Prince Farondis), MAGI: THE KINGDOM OF MAGIC (Yunan), STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT (Quarren), ALDNOAH.ZERO (Inaho), BORUTO (Konohamaru), SAO II (Jun), GUNDAM: IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS (Ein), STAR OCEAN 5 (Fidel), GUNDAM: THUNDERBOLT (Io), TALES OF BERSERIA (Shigure), STARCRAFT II (Stone), ATELIER: ESCHA & LOGY (Logy), DURARARAx2 (Shijima), DORAEMON (Soby), HALO 5 (Rooker), SKYLANDERS (Panderghast).
With plans to become a doctor, Max studied science for four years at USC. Yet he ultimately received his degree from the Theatre Department because he always found himself drawn to what fulfills him the most: creating worlds and telling stories through performance.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $40
Selfies: $20
Video & Audio Recording: $50
Kara Eberle
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Lindsay Jones
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Michael Jones
Jones has worked extensively with Rooster Teeth, having also starred in Immersion and voices the character Sun Wukong in Rooster Teeth’s RWBY, and Max in Camp Camp. He starred in Rooster Teeth’s science fiction action comedy film Lazer Team, released in 2016, as well as its sequel, Lazer Team 2, the following year.
His work outside of Rooster Teeth includes voicing Sting Eucliffe in Fairy Tail, Dogra in One Piece, Rapture in Ninja Slayer From Animation, and Gen in World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman.”
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Geoff Ramsey
Geoff Ramsey, one of the original members of Rooster Teeth, is also the founder of Achievement Hunter and Let’s Play. He voices the popular character “Grif” in Red vs. Blue, in addition to appearing numerous other Rooster Teeth productions, he has voiced characters in Red Dead Redemption, multiple games in the Halo franchise, and has appeared in shows alongside Will Arnett, Bill Nye, Kumail Nanjiani, and world famous athletes such as Anthony Davis, Rob Gronkowski, and Thierry Henry. Prior to his time at Rooster Teeth, Geoff was in the US Army from 1993 to 1998, and was the road manager for a host of New Jersey punk bands and worked briefly for View Askew Productions. He lives in Austin with his daughter.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Cherami Leigh
Cherami Leigh is an actor and writer and has been working in the industry for over 20 years. She has appeared in films such as Temple Grandin, Not Cool, and Fast Food Nation, as well as television shows including Friday Night Lights, Bones and Shameless. In anime she has played over 150 characters including Lucy in Fairy Tail, Asuna in Sword Art Online, Ilia in RWBY, Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon, Sarada in Boruto and Red Blood Cell in Cells at Work. Some of her video game credits include Gaige in Borderlands 2, Makoto in Persona 5, A2 in Nier Automata, The Quartermaster In Call of Duty: WWII, Minerva in The Walking Dead: Final Season and Ikrie in the Horizon Zero Dawn DLC. She also voices multiple characters in the Fire Emblem universe, most recently Rhea, in Three Houses. She also has worked for Radio Disney in various roles over the last 20 years and is one of the creators of the award winning webseries “CONfessionals” as well as creating over 600 episodes of “Love and Light.”
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Gus Sorola
A founding member of Rooster Teeth Productions, Gustavo is best known for his role as Simmons in the long running web series Red vs Blue. Over the last 17 years his many projects include the Rooster Teeth Podcast, Lazer Team, appearing alongside Bill Nye in his Netflix series, providing a voice in Halo 3 and even voicing Hawkeye in Marvel Avengers Academy.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $30
Selfies: $20
Selfie & Autograph Combo: $40
Amanda Miller
Amanda’s been working as a voice actor for the past decade with her most notable roles being Flutterina in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Boruto in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Sailor Jupiter in Sailor Moon Crystal, Junko Enoshima and Toko Fukawa (Dangan Ronpa video game series), Sully and Cherche (Fire Emblem), Princess Quasar Caterpillar (Star vs. The Forces of Evil), and as Walker in (Rage 2).
Find her online at amandacmiller.com and @amandacelinemiller on Insta and Facebook, and if a paranormal comedy mockumentary series like Parks and Rec meets Ghostbusters is up your alley, be sure to check out her web series @ghostsnstuffinc.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Rob DenBleyker
Cyanide & Happiness had its wee beginnings with founders, Rob, Dave, and Kris, in the early dawn of internet funnies as a webcomic in 2005, but has morphed into the juggernaut of dark comedy, surreal humor, and dumb puns you now know it to be. Cyanide & Happiness creates daily webcomic, twice weekly animations, championed two board games, video games, and several TV shows including The Cyanide & Happiness Show and Purgatony.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Free signing and sketching up to 2 hours each day. Schedule to be provided at booth.
Rob DenBleyker
Nurtured on anime classics from the tender age of Star Blazers, et al, this reclusive actor/writerspent more years than he cares to remember in what might charitably be called free-fall before landing, mostly by accident, smack dab on the industry of his dreams. To this day, some believe the small crater made by the impact remains the source of his power.
Cast as Rikichi in 2005’s Samurai 7, Tatum’s inexplicable luck has held long enough to see his flag hoisted on a slew of dream roles, most notably Kyoya Otori in Ouran High School Host Club, suave, demonic Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler, France in the Hetalia franchise,Tomoe from Kamisama Kiss, and the equal parts maniacal/vulnerable Okarin Rintarou from Steins;Gate. More recently, Tatum can be heard in the epic My Hero Academia as Teyna Iida.
Other characters the man still can’t believe he’s had the crazy good fortune to play include: Doumeki in XXXHolic, Jiro Mochizuki in Black Blood Brothers, Isaac Dian in Baccano!, both God Eneru and Dalton in One Piece, Komui Lee in D-Gray Man, Dororo in Sgt. Frog, the titular loveable savage of Heroic Age, Ryosuke Takahashi in Initial D, Lawrence Kraft in Spice and Wolf, Zarbon in Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Scar in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. His vocal “stylings,” much to the chagrin of drama teachers everywhere, he’s sure, have also been featured in Romeo X Juliet, Speed Grapher, Trinity Blood, Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Black Cat, Nabari no Ou, Ghost Hunt, School Rumble, The Tower of Druaga, Aquarion, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Shuffle, Shigurui, Glass Fleet, Mushishi, Soul Eater, along with feature- length films such as Vexille, Summer Wars, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, and Empire of Corpses, among many others. His videogame credits include Sir Hammerlock from the Borderlands franchise, Julius Kresnik from Tales of Xillia 2, Mr. Foster from Killing Floor 2, Kelvin and Pendles from Battleborn, and fifteen playable characters from SMITE.
And as if being involved with so many awesome shows wasn’t enough, in late 2007 the fluky so-and-so tempted fate by officially branching out into ADR directing and adaptive scriptwriting. His ADR directing credits to date include Aquarion, Jyu-oh-Sei, Romeo X Juliet, Big Windup, Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne andShikabane Hime (Corpse Princess), while his writing credits include substantial work on Ouran High School Host Club, Heroic Age, Initial D, Blassreiter, Ga Rei: Zero, Hero Tales, Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Fractale, Deadman Wonderland, Steins;Gate, Assassination Classroom, Dragon Ball Z Kaiand Attack on Titan.
Ever the workaholic, Tatum is currently burning the midnight oil on a number of exciting projects due for release later this year. And before you ask, the “J” stands for… Well, it stands for whatever you’d like it to.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Dave McElfatrick
Cyanide & Happiness had its wee beginnings with founders, Rob, Dave, and Kris, in the early dawn of internet funnies as a webcomic in 2005, but has morphed into the juggernaut of dark comedy, surreal humor, and dumb puns you now know it to be. Cyanide & Happiness creates daily webcomic, twice weekly animations, championed two board games, video games, and several TV shows including The Cyanide & Happiness Show and Purgatony.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Free signing and sketching up to 2 hours each day. Schedule to be provided at booth.
Luci Christian
Bio Coming Soon
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Felecia Angelle
2020 Special Guests
Gaku Space
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Carolina Ravassa
Born in Cali, Colombia, Carolina Ravassa has appeared on The Affair opposite Dominic West, Mr. Robot with Bobby Cannavale & Rami Malek, and has done a few shorts with Reggie Watts. She produced, directed, and starred in the webseries Hispanglosaxon, which won an Imagen Award for Best Webseries. She is known for her voice work in the video games Overwatch (Sombra), Grand Theft Auto V (Taliana Martinez), Max Payne III, Red Dead Redemption II, Just Cause 4 and upcoming voices on Disney, Nickelodeon, Netflix and Cartoon Network. She also worked on Step Up 3-D and Maybe Tomorrow.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Jonny Cruz
Jonny’s passions led him to start his career in Dallas Texas, landing him some fun direct to DVD action movies (Walking Tall: Long Justice, Missionary Man) and early TV appearances (Prison Break). He produced and directed his first feature film (Small Timers) and many online series before moving to LA. Since living in LA he has made his way into television (Matador, The Closer, NCIS: Los Angeles) and voice over (Overwatch as Lucio, Hitman, Hero’s of the Storm, Prototype 2, Stinky and Dirty). He is Currently working on a few new VO titles and is a Producer at Facebook | Instagram
Facebook @jonnyCruzzz Instagram @jonnycruzzz twitter @jonnycruzzz
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Jen Cohn
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Charlet Chung
Charlet Chung is a Japanese/Korean-American television and film actor who is also the voice of D.Va from Blizzard Entertainment’s OVERWATCH, Julia Argent from Netflix’s CARMEN SANDIEGO and Seraph from CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS III. Her extensive list of on-screen credits include appearances on truTV’s FAMELESS, Netflix’s GRACE AND FRANKIE and Fox’s 911. Charlet is recurring on Fox’s FAMILY GUY, TBS’ AMERICAN DAD and Cartoon Network’s CRAIG OF THE CREEK and is also a series regular on two upcoming animated series that will air later this year.
Appearance Dates:
Saturday & Sunday
Pricing:
Autograph on Personal Item: $40
Autograph on Funko Pop/Collectible: $50
Selfie: $40
Voice Recording: $50
Add on Selfie w/ Purchase of Any Item: $30
Paul Nakauchi
An LA native, Paul Nakauchi has worked in many facets of the entertainment
industry., including theater, voice overs, television and film. He began his
career in the ensemble of the “King and I’ with the legendary Yul Brynner.
He was in the 1996 revival with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips and
two years, later he ascended to the throne of the “King” on London’s West
End starring opposite Elaine Paige, and most recently finished a year and a
half run of the 2016 Tony award winning revival directed by Bart Sher as the
Kralahome starring with Ken Watanabe and Tony award winners, Kelli Ohara,
and Ruthie Ann Miles. His other theater credits include the First National
Tour of “Miss Saigon,”
as well as the world premier of “Allegiance” the musical dramatizing the
interment of Japanese Americans during WWII at the Old Globe in San Diego,
where he played Tatsuo Kimura, fictional father of Star Trek’s George Takei.
He has voiced numerous animated characters including, Wong in Marvel’s “Dr
Strange,” Hutch in Lionsgate’s “Alpha and Omega,”
“Savatte in “Star Wars, the Clone Wars,” as well as numerous video games,
such as “Game of Thrones,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “World of Warcraft,
Mists of Pandaria,” and Blizzard’s most recent release, “Overwatch” in which
his voice enhabits the samurai Hanzo. His TV credits include “ER,” “Star
Trek, Deep Space 9.” Hulu’s “Deadbeat,” and his film credits include “The
Great Raid,” He was in Vancouver BC, filming Adam Wingard’s adaptation of
the anime series “Death Note,”
where he plays the role of Watari.
Appearance Dates:
Saturday & Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Colleen Clinkenbeard
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
David Matranga
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Monica Rial
Monica Rial has been working in the anime industry for 20 years and she is currently listed as the most prolific anime voice actor in the USA. She is best known for her work as Bulma in the Dragon Ball franchise but she has lent her voice to over 500 anime including: Black Butler, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card, Deadman Wonderland, Fairy Tail, Hello Kitty, Michiko & Hatchin, My Hero Academia, One Piece, OuranHost Club, Panty and Stocking, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Soul Eater, Yuri!!! on Ice, and many more. She’s also appeared in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, RWBY, and several video games including Tales of Berseria, Fire Emblem Echoes, Ms. ‘Splosion Man, the Angry Birds series, Monster Tale, Tribes Ascend, Smite, Borderlands 2, Borderlands the Pre-Sequel, Dungeon Boss, and Orcs Must Die! You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @Rialisms. Be sure to come by and say hello!
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Sean Schemmel
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Christopher R. Sabat
Starting his career as the Voice Director of the hit anime series Dragonball Z, he is best known as the show’s antihero Vegeta, and Piccolo the brooding green father figure. Christopher also voiced many other characters in DBZ including Yamcha, Mr. Popo, Kami, Korin, Burter, Shenron, Zarbon, Guru, and many more. His other popular voice roles include Zoro (One Piece), Alex Luis Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist), Elfman (Fairy Tail), Roronoa, Ayame Sohma (Fruits Basket), Saiga Tatsumi (Speed Grapher), Kurogane (Tsubasa Chronicles), Daisuke Jigen (Lupin III), Father Tres (Trinity Blood), Braun (Stiens Gate), Giroro (Sgt Frog), Rundas (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption), Garterbelt (Panty and Stocking), Sakaki (Kenichi), Masa (My Bride is a Mermaid), Saito (Darker Than Black), Woerman (Attack on Titan), and Alex D
(Deus Ex: Invisible War).
Most recently, he can be heard as All Might on My Hero Academia, Kyoma Mabuchi in Dimension W, Yano Sukehiro in Black Clover, Rath, Geoff and Attikus in Gearbox’s Battleborn, Batou in the Ghost In the Shell: Arise series, Goro Sasabe in Free! Eternal Summer, Sakuya Togane in the second season of Psycho-Pass, Christophe Giacometti in Yuri On Ice, Jason in Tokyo Ghoul, and Mondo in Dangan Ronpa.
In 2004, hefounded Okratron 5000, a voiceover production studio based in Dallas, Texas which he continues to run to this day. When he’s not in the studio, he likes to play with his daughters, make electronic music, and buy vintage synthesizers and airline glassware on eBay.
To see him in one of his rare film appearances, find him opposite of Michael Madsen in the ridiculous horror film Lumberjack Man.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Ricco Fajardo
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Troy Baker
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Nolan North
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Maile Flanagan
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Mary is voice directing Tangled The series, Billy Dilley’s Super Subterranean Summer, Penn Zero: Part Time Hero for Disney XD starring Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Alfred Molina and Larry Wilmore and Glitter Force for Saban Entertainment. She has also directed Naruto: Shippuden for over 10 years. She has directed the 6 Naruto Movies as well as Naruto and Naruto Shippuden the series for which she received the 2008 SPJA award for best director. Among her many other directing credits are Cowboy Bebop the series, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Tenkai Knights, Digimon Fusion, Stitch!, Disk Wars, Wolf’s Rain, Digimon Tamers, the movie Appleseed and was a co-writer for the American adaptation of Metropolis. She also directed the original animated series Boing The Play Ranger and Gormiti: Lords of Nature .
Mary Elizabeth has had the great honor of singing the music of Akira Yamaoka for the movies Julia X and Silent Hill as well as the games: Silent Hill 3, The Room, Origins, Shadows of the Damned and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Book of Memories which she also voice directed.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Steve Blum
Currently you can find him as “Zeb Orrelios” and other characters in the incredible series Star Wars: Rebels on Disney XD, as “Shoe” and “Sparky” in Laika’s The Boxtrolls, and as astronaut Quentin Thomas on Hip Hop superstar LOGIC’s amazing album “The Incredible True Story”
He’s also appeared on the Emmy award-winning Transformers: Prime, playing “Starscream.” “Sub-Zero,” “Reptile and “Bo’Rai Cho” in Mortal Combat X, Several characters on Wabbit, Ultimate Spider Man, Ben 10: Omniverse, The Regular Show, Doc McStuffins, Uncle Grandpa, Wander over Yonder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and as the terrifying anti-bender “Amon” on the hit series Avatar: The Legend of Korra!
And every Saturday night, Steve takes the helm as “TOM” the robotic host of Cartoon Network’s Toonami on Adult Swim.
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
Dave Wittenberg
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
TBA
2020 Esports
Phil Visu
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
TKbreezy
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
XxShinobazuxX
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
2020 Industry Guests
Jez Roth
After many years of competing at anime convention masquerades, winning Best in Show 17 times with tailored costumes and heavily choreographed
skits, he moved to Las Vegas to work for The Venetian designing the Opera Gowns. Eventually he landed at Cirque du Soleil’s water spectacular O building costumes.
Since leaving Cirque, he has worked freelance out of his own studio – creating everything from mermaids that shoot water, to Mirrorball Men, and Golden Fairies that contort through the air. Jez has designed for events with A-list celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Eva Langoria, Snoop Dogg, and DJs such as Benny Benassi, and Dash Berlin; his jewelry has even been worn on the red carpet at the Billboard Awards.
He has represented the United States at the IOEA Otaku Expo in Japan as a Cosplay Guest, and also helped choose the Canadian World Cosplay Summit representative for 2016. He believes that the world of costuming is an endlessly fascinating pursuit-from armor to gowns, giant puppetry to monsters. He shares unique events that educate and involve the community (such as Lip Sync For Your Cosplay and PROJECT: Cosplay!) and has restructured and organized cosplay events for conventions in his goal to make the competition scene more streamlined. His artistic journey came full circle in 2015 when he was hired as an Artistic Consultant for the One Piece: Gold film, working with Toei Animation to give their film a fully realized Las Vegas feel. In 2018 he was hired by Right Stuf Anime to create the Official Brand Costumes for animes Aria and Emma.
In Winter 2019 he launched GamerVsTailor, a studio that not only doubled as an online race pitting the Gamer vs the Cosplayer who see who could finish first in a variety of races but as the first SCHOOL OF COSPLAY located in Las Vegas. There teachers instruct Sewing, Make-Up, props, weapons, wig building, and much more.
Jez Roth and GamerVsTailor is thrilled to be appearing at Lvl-Up Expo and can’t wait to meet you all!
2020 Cosplay Guests
Holly Wolf
Miso Tokki
Insta: miso_tokki
Twitter: tokkimiso
Patreon: Patreon.com/misotokki
Ali Brazil
insta: aly.brazil
twitter: alybrazil_
facebook: Aly Brazil Cosplay
Patreon: patreon.com/alybrazil
Unicorn Astronaut
the United States attending countless conventions and gaming expos displaying her love for anime and video games
through costumes from the Dragon Ball Series, Mortal Combat, My Hero Academia and more. Taking her craft one
step further she has mixed cosplay and hosting to travel with the Hyper X Esports Truck and entertain their gaming
events. When not getting her hands dirty on a project or binge watching an anime she is hunting for shiny Pokemon on Twitch
and producing a high energy show for her fans.
Twitch: Unicorn_Astronaut
Instagram: Unicorn_Astronaut
Facebook: UnicornAstronaut
Twitter: UnicrnAstronaut
2020 Performing Artists
Chalk Twins
Follow them on their adventures across the country and around the world on Twitter or Instagram @chalktwins. Like them on Facebook at facebook.com/chalktwins, buy prints and originals online at http://chalktwins.com/wp1/buy-now/.
Past Voice Actors
Lindsay Jones
Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday
Arryn Zech
Arryn Zech is an American actress best known for her role as Blake Belladonna from RWBY. She also voices the character Dr. Emily Grey in the longest running web-based series, Red vs. Blue, created by the Austin-based production company, Rooster Teeth.
Arryn was born in Rota, Spain, but was raised in the city of New Braunfels, Texas. She attended the North East School of Arts high-school in San Antonio, Texas, where she majored in Musical Theatre.
She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors of Journalism in Copy Editing and Design, but found her passions still lie with acting and singing. She worked at the university’s student run television station, TSTV, where she worked as an actress, writer, and host for multiple shows including Videogame Hour Live and Still Life.
With over 10 years of training in theatre, various acting methods, and classical voice, Arryn is now based in LA pursing her career in film and television. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @ArrynZech.
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Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $20
Selfies: $20
Kara Eberle
Kara Eberle is an American voice actress and Internet personality. She’s most known for her role as Weiss Schnee in the award-winning anime series, RWBY. Kara first stepped into the industry working at Rooster Teeth Productions, where she met Monty Oum (RWBY ) in 2011. They became close friends, and Oum shared a “crazy idea” that would turn out to be a global phenomenon. Warner Bros. Japan recently debuted RWBY to the eastern market in late 2015.
Kara also lends her voice to the new video game, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse– introduced at RTX 2015 and currently available on Steam.
In addition to voice acting and interacting with fans, Kara works as an executive at Powerhouse Animation Studios, located in Austin, TX. She enjoys seeing all aspects of the animation world! You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @Kara4tx.
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Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $20
Selfies: $20
Barbara Dunkelman
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Friday-Sunday
Pricing:
Autographs: $20
Selfies: $20
Charles Martinet
Beloved the world over for voicing perhaps the most popular and recognized character in video game history, Charles Martinet is an American actor, best known for providing the voice of Mario, the titular character in Nintendo’s flagship video game franchise. Beyond the mustachioed plumber, Martinet also voices Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Toad, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi and a select few other characters from the same series.
Like all great stories, Charles Martinet’s road to fame had humble beginnings. Martinet was told by his friend that there was going to be an audition at a trade show in which you “talk to people as a plumber”. At first Martinet planned to talk like a stereotypical Italian American with a deep, raspy voice (which is how Mario sounded in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World cartoons). He then thought to himself that it would be too harsh for children to hear, so he made it more soft-hearted and friendly, resulting in what Mario’s voice is today.
Martinet began working for Nintendo in 1994 as the voice of Mario in a computer generated version of the character that greeted and interacted with attendees at industry and trade events. This system was called Mario in Real-Time or MIRT and was developed by Pasadena based SimGraphics. Martinet could see the attendees by means of a hidden camera setup and a facial motion capture rig recorded his mouth movements in order to synchronize Martinet’s mouth movement with the on-screen Mario mouth movement. This digital puppetry, with Martinet’s comic performance, was a novelty at the time.
Although most fans were introduced to Martinet’s version of Mario with the 1996 Nintendo 64 game, Super Mario 64, Martinet’s video game voice over debut was as Mario in the 1995 Windows release of Interplay’s game Mario’s FUNdamentals. Since then, he has gone on to voice Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Toadsworth, Metal Mario, Shadow Mario, Piantas (Male), Mini-Mario Toys, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi and Baby Wario in most games wherein these characters speak. He also voiced the enemies Wart, Mouser, Tryclyde, and Clawgrip in Super Mario Advance. His voice work appears in the English and Japanese language versions of the games.
Not just limited to roles in Mario games, Martinet has also lent his voice to the boxers and the announcer in the Super NES title Super Punch-Out!!. He voiced the character Vigoro in Sega’s Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube role-playing video game, Skies of Arcadia. He did the voice of Homunculus in the Konami PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows game Shadow of Destiny, and provided voices for Reader Rabbit and The ClueFinders games. Charles Martinet wanted to voice Link in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but Shigeru Miyamoto told him that Link would remain without a voice. However Link’s grunts have been voiced by various Japanese voice actors.
In addition to video game voice overs, Martinet has worked as a voice actor in commercials, cartoons, and promotions. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in 2005, Charles (as an Animal Crossing character) could be found roaming the virtual village featured in the playable demo of Animal Crossing: Wild World. Martinet did Mario’s voice as the announcer for Pac-Man Vs. on the Nintendo GameCube.
Fans can also hear Martinet’s voice in non-Nintendo games such as Damage as the voice of Fowl Mouth, as well as the primary voice work in several educational game series such as LeapFrog. He also voiced the dragon Paarthurnax in the 2011 video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and narrated the cutscenes and menus for the 2013 video game Bit.Trip Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien.
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Friday – Sunday
Kenny James
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Friday – Sunday
Sonny Strait
Most recognized as the voice of Krillin on the wildly popular, animated TV show Dragon Ball Z and as an illustrator for, arguably, the most famous, independently published comic book series Elfquest. Strait has over 20 years of experience in the arts.
As a voice actor, Strait is considered to be one of the most recognized in the business. Besides Dragon Ball Z, he has worked on many popular animated series including Usopp in One Piece, Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Cartoon Network’s laid back, robot host Toonami TOM. He has also worked as a writer and director on several TV series including Dragon Ball series, Case Closed, and Lupin the Third. As a comic book artist he has 17 published works to date including his débuted self-published series Mr. Average featured in The Comics Journal and Elfquest which was published by both WARP Graphics and DC Comics and he’s considered one of the top Elfquest artists from its over 30 year history.
In 2007, he wrote and illustrated a graphic novel about a reluctant punk rock, faerie princess named Goat. The book, called We Shadows, was published by Tokyopop and was nominated by The American Library Association for Best Graphic Novel 2008. The book received glowing reviews in many trade magazines including Publishers Weekly, Newtype, Play and Anime Insider.
He has also appeared in many video games such as the title role in S’plosion Man, the psychos in Borderlands and Neptune in Smite.
Recently, Strait has reprised his roles of Krillin in the theatrical release Dragonball Z Resurrection F and Toonami TOM 1 in the Intruder 2 series for Cartoon Network. He was also cast in his current favorite roles of Koro Sensei in Assassination Classroom and Maple in Show By Rock.
In 2015 Sonny returned to directing starting with the anime series Maria the Virgin Witch, Mikagura School Suite and the highly controversial Prison School. He has also returned to Elfquest as a colorist for Dark Horse Comics. He also did a Ford commercial as Krillin!
If you are a geek genre unmarred by his carnage, know that you are so next!
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Saturday
Pricing:
Selfie/Photograph: $20
Autograph: $20
Video Recording: $10
Eric Vale
Eric Vale can eat an entire Quarter Pounder with Cheese in a single bite. He crossed the English Channel riding on the antlers of a Canadian Moose. His favorite time of the year is dinnertime. This man has voiced characters such as Trunks in Dragon Ball Z, Sanji in One Piece, Yuki in Fruits Basket, Kymblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, America and Canada in Hetalia, and most recently Nishiki in Tokyo Ghoul. You can also hear him on radio and TV as the voice of the Dallas Stars and Dave & Busters. But wait! That’s not all! He also wrote and produced the feature film Chariot, which is quite possibly the greatest American movie ever made. He’s written screenplays as well as scripted over 50 anime programs and he’s a full-on, for reals published writer. Eric has also directed for film and stage. So he sounds pretty busy, right? Well, tack on the fact that he’s a husband and father of three and you’ll understand why he always looks so tired. He began studying the world of entertainment when he was only 12 years old, and he never looked back. Living a “normal” life with “normal” people isn’t something Eric would know how to do. It’s not something he’d want to do. The best thing he can say about life is that you have your options; you can be safe or you can be crazy. Guess which one he chose?
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Friday – Sunday
Christopher Sabat
Christopher R. Sabat (@VoiceOfVegeta on Twitter) has lived on a diet of Senzu Beans for over 15 years. As the Voice Director for Dragonball Z, the voice actor behind Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Mr. Popo, Korin, Burter, Shenron, Zarbon, Guru, and countless others, you could almost say he is the “voice” of Dragonball Z. Chris has lent his voice to countless other roles including: Alex Luis Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist; Elfman in Fairy Tail; Roronoa Zoro in One Piece; Ayame Sohma in Fruits Basket; Saiga Tatsumi in Speed Grapher; Kurogane in Tsubasa Chronicles; Daisuke Jigen in Lupin III; Father Tres in Trinity Blood; Braun in Steins;Gate; Giroro in Sgt. Frog; Pokémon: Black and White as TV announcer; Cliff (ep 46) Rundas in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption; Garterbelt in Panty and Stocking; Sakaki in Kenichi; Masa in My Bride is a Mermaid; Saito in Darker Than Black; Woerman in Attack on Titan; Alex D in Deus Ex: Invisible War; Captain Smiley & Star in Comic Jumper; and many others. Most recently, he was cast in Psycho-Pass 2 as Sakuya Tougane; Hak in Yoma of the Dawn; and Batou in Ghost In The Shell: Arise. When not in the studio, Christopher loves to make electronic music, play video games, and spend time with his wife and daughters.
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Saturday and Sunday
Past Horror & Film
John Kassir
He has also done the voice of Rizzo for the Spyro game, Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, and voiced Ghost Roaster in Skylanders: Giants, as well as Short Cut in Skylanders: Trap Team and Pit Boss in Skylanders: Imaginators. He is also known for his various roles in season 1 of The Amanda Show. He voiced the Ice King in the original Adventure Time pilot. He also provided additional voice over work for Sonic the Hedgehog, Eek! The Cat, The Brothers Flub, Dead Rising, Casper’s Scare School, Spider-Man 3, Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!, Diablo III, Monsters University, The Prophet, Halo 5: Guardians and The Secret Life of Pets.
You can find John on Twitter @JohnKassir
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Friday – Sunday
Roger Jackson
Jackson is known for providing the voice for the serial killer “Ghostface” in Scream as well as Scream 2, Scream 3 and Scream 4. He has also appeared in animated films and television series like The Walt Disney Company’s The Book of Pooh. He also voiced the maniacal monkey genius Mojo Jojo and the Rowdyruff Boy Butch on The Powerpuff Girls.
Jackson has also played an active role in the video game industry; voicing heroes for Galleon and Baldur’s Gate, robots in Thrillville: Off the Rails and working for several Star Wars and Star Trek titles. On top of that, he provides voices for all the original cats on the Catz virtual pet program. He has contributed to Final Fantasy X and King’s Quest VII and has done educational programs for both The Learning Company and Broderbund. For American McGee’s Alice and its sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, he has also provided the voices for the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse and the Jabberwock. He played the tyrant Colonel Nohman from Zone of the Enders and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. He also voiced John O’Conner in Delphine Software International’s Fade to Black.
Roger has also voiced many characters for the video game franchises of The Walking Dead, Mass Effect and Lego.
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Friday – Sunday
Tony Todd
Todd has appeared in more than 100 theatrical and television films, and has played opposite many major Hollywood stars. His movie credits include: Platoon (1986), Night of the Living Dead (1990), Candyman[3] (1992), The Crow (1994), The Rock (1996), Wishmaster (1997), the Final Destination series (2000–2011), Minotaur (2006) and Beg (2010).[4] Todd was the voice of The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Todd’s television appearances include a recurring role on Boston Public and guest appearances on Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena Warrior Princess as Cecrops, The X-Files, Smallville, Psych, 24, Charmed, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Criminal Minds, 21 Jump Street and Chuck.
He has portrayed several characters in the Star Trek universe: Worf’s brother Kurn in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, an adult Jake Sisko in the episode “The Visitor” in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and an Alpha Hirogen in the episode “Prey” in Star Trek: Voyager. In 2017, Todd returned to the world of Star Trek as General Rodek in the MMORPG game Star Trek Online; Rodek was the persona taken on by Kurn after he lost the memories of his past life as Worf’s brother in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Sons of Mogh”.
2018 saw Todd appear in the horror fan favorite movie Hellfest and to start 2019 the critically acclaimed movie Reign of the Supermen was released with Todd voicing the villain Darkseid for the picture.
Todd will star in a recurring role in the third season of the slasher television series Scream.
Tony enjoys meeting his fans at conventions and talking theater, television and movies.
Tony can be found on twitter @TonyTodd54
Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday
Mark Dodson
Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday
Felix Silla
Twiki in Buck Rogers (Sci-Fi)
Glider Ewok in Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Planet of the Apes
Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday
Past YouTube Stars
Grant Smith
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Friday – Sunday
Kirran Somerlade
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Friday – Sunday
Tyler Koi
Blastphamous
up in Cleveland, Ohio with his mother, 2 brothers, and 2 sisters. After landing in Las Vegas
he began working various jobs in the construction and casino industries. In a few short
years he developed a love for poker and began studying to become a professional poker
player, winning many online tournaments and even getting an invitation to attend the
infamous World Series of Poker.
In 2013 a friend introduced Richard to the YouTube platform. Shortly thereafter Richard
started his most popular channel BlastphamousHD TV and grew it to 2.3 million
Subscribers. Today he has 4 Channels. BlastphamousHD TV2, for reactions with 1.2 million
subscribers, Maurice Barnett, for Vlogs with 191,000 subscribers, BlastphamousHD Gaming
with 1.04 million subscribers, and BlastphamousHD Pranks with 359,000 subscribers where
he plays harmless pranks on his family and friends.
Over the last four years he has gained 74.1k followers on Twitter, 158k followers on
Instagram, numerous fan pages and channels dedicated to his comedic style on facebook
and youtube.
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Friday – Sunday
Past Esports
TK Breezy
Appearance Dates:
Saturday and Sunday
EEvisu
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Saturday and Sunday
Past Comic
Dan Mendoza
These 5 ingredients combined together made ZOMBIE TRAMP.
With the 1st 7 books done completely on his own, and guidance from comic editor and friend Jason Martin, the book was eventually picked up by ACTION LAB comics for their Mature readers line DANGER ZONE.
The company stayed alert to Dan’s “cult” following and offered to put together a creative team to tackle making ZOMBIE TRAMP a regular ongoing series.
Dan is now the writer and creative consultant to the series as well as Cover and interior artist from time to time and promises to keep the book going in the direction that his fans have come to love.
Dan Says: “Not only is Janey Belle my baby, but also my therapy and stress reliever. I feel most comfortable when writing her reflections and observations on the flaws of humanity. It makes me feel good when so many fans come up to me or write me to say that Janey Belle is such a relatable character and identify with her on so many levels.”
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Friday – Sunday