Guests - LVL UP EXPO

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!

2020 Special Guests

Gaku Space

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Gaku Space decided to forgo a baseball career to pursue his passion for acting. Relocating to Los Angeles, he studied acting and became an advanced martial artist in Filipino Kali and Japanese sword fighting. In 2014, he landed a lead role in the live-action series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist by Capcom as Goki. He’s now best known for his work as Genji from Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch.

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 is an actor/director know for titles such as Matador, Overwatch, Hitman, Hero’s of the Storm, Prototype 2, Stinky and Dirty.

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

Jen Cohn is best known for her role voicing ‘Pharah’ in Overwatch. She’s also the voice of ‘Lord Zash’ in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and of Zuko and Azula’s mother ‘Ursa’ in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Jen’s other voice credits include characters in Turbo, Word Girl, Assy McGee, MAD, World of Warcraft, a few Grand Theft Auto’s, and Red Dead Redemption I. When not doing voiceovers for video games, animation, and commercials, Jen can be found acting onscreen, writing and producing, and running around New York and Paris Fashion Weeks, where she trend scouts and consults new brands. She lives in New York City.

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

Colleen Smith Clinkenbeard (born April 13, 1980) is an American voice actress, line producer, ADR director and script writer at Funimation who provides the voices for English versions of Japanese anime series. Having starred as Rachel Moore in the long-running detective series Case Closed, she then served as the ADR director on Fullmetal Alchemist which aired on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and would star in many other popular anime shows including as Monkey D. Luffy in the Funimation dub of One Piece; the young Goku and Gohan in Dragon Ball Z Kai; Yuko Ichihara in xxxHolic, Riza Hawkeye in the Fullmetal Alchemist series and Erza Scarlet in Fairy Tail.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

David Matranga

David Anthony Matranga (born April 20, 1975 in Houston, Texas) is an American voice actor. He works primarily for English dubbed anime for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. David is best known as the voice of Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia, Hideki Hinata from Angel Beats, Bertholdt Hoover from the popular Attack on Titan series,Tomoya Okazaki from the Clannad series, Takumi Usui from Maid Sama, Ghost from the Halo Legends movie,Briareos from the Appleseed series,Yu Himura from the EF series, and God Serena from Fairy Tail.

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

Sean Schemmel is a professional Voice Actor, ADR Director, Audio Engineer, and Musician. Since 1999 he has been the definitive English voice of Goku (as well as King Kai and Nail) from the internationally acclaimed anime Dragon Ball Z, as well as Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball video games for all English speaking countries. A veritable vocal chameleon, Sean has provided voices for hundreds of animated characters over the past 20 years on many hit shows and video games spanning many different genres, including but not limited to; Pokemon, Sofia the First, Little Big Awesome, Super Smash Brothers, Tom and Jerry, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4Kids Productions), Fallout 4, God of War, Batman, DC Super Hero Girls, Scooby Doo, Yu Gi Oh GX, DC Super Friends, and many many others. In his spare time he enjoys playing video games, canyon carving, and playing French Horn, Guitar, and Bass and reading. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner and their magical doggie. Who he swears is psychic.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

Christopher R. Sabat

Currently tallying well over 650 roles spanning video games, anime, television and film, Christopher R. Sabat (@VoiceOfVegeta on Twitter) has been an active part of the entertainment industry since 1998.

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

Ricco Fajardo is an American voice actor who has provided voices for English-language versions of Japanese anime series and video games. Some of his roles include Itona Horibe in Assassination Classroom, Mirio Togata in My Hero Academia, Daryun in The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Tor Kokonoe in Absolute Duo, Leon Luis in Garo: The Animation, Kyousuke Munakata in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak Academy and Haruhiro in Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

Troy Baker

Troy Edward Baker is an American voice actor and musician known for portraying the lead characters in various video games. His best known voice performances include Joel in The Last of Us, Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4, Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite, the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins, Batman in other titles, Delsin Rowe in Infamous Second Son, Samuel Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Pagan Min in Far Cry 4, Rhys in Tales from the Borderlands, Logan Thackeray in Guild Wars 2 and Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia. He has voiced in a number of anime, including Basilisk, Trinity Blood, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Bleach and Naruto: Shippuden. He also voices Hawkeye and Loki in several Marvel projects.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

Nolan North

Nolan Ramsey North is an American actor and voice actor. His voice-work includes characters such as Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series, Desmond Miles from the Assassin’s Creed series, Ghost and Cayde-6 from Bungie’s titles Destiny and Destiny 2, the Penguin in the Batman: Arkham franchise, Palawa Joko in Guild Wars 2, Meepo the Geomancer in Dota 2, David in The Last of Us, Martin Walker in Spec Ops: The Line, Deadpool in various media, Superboy in Young Justice, himself as one of the voices for the Boss in Saints Row IV, Edward Richtofen in Call of Duty and the titular role in Blaze and the Monster Machines.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

Maile Flanagan

Maile Flanagan has been the voice of Naruto for both Naruto and Naruto Shippuden for the long-running series as well as acting in 43 video games and 6 movies for the title character. She won an Emmy for voiceover for the title character in “Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks” in 2006 (also nominated 2007). She played Principal Perry on Disney XD’s LAB RATS and all the spin-offs. Some other animation credits include recurring on The Loud House and Pig Goat Banana Cricket, as well as Shimmer and Shine, Rango, Ice Age 3, Uncle Grandpa, Fish Hooks, etc. She’s been on camera in many movies including 500 Days of Summer, Transformers 3, Yes Man, The Station Agent and continues to guest star on hit series like The Mindy Project, Modern Family, Mike and Molly, Last Man Standing, Shameless (recurring), Grey’s Anatomy, (recurring) etc. Look for her in the upcoming movies “The Three Bears and the Perfect Gift” and “My Babysitter The Superhero” (lead/co-producer). Twitter: @maileflanagan Instagram: @therealmaileflanagan

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is a voice over actress, writer, singer and director. As an actress, she is currently playing Governor Pryce in Star Wars Rebels, Dr. Maheswaran in Steven Universe, Valkyrie in Lego Marvel’s Avengers, Talis in StarCraft II, Johanna in Heroes of the Storm, Queen Metalia in Salor Moon Crystal and Brooha in Glitter Force. Mary Elizabeth portrayed Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost In The Shell Innocence, Solid State Society and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex for which she won the American Anime Award for Best Actress. You can also hear her as the Female Crusader in Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Kurutsu in Ghost in the Shell Arise, Sei in Alpha Protocol and Nora in Final Fantasy XIII. Some of her other popular roles are Cornelia in Code Geas. Kurenai from Naruto, Julia from Cowboy Bebop, Zanpakuto from Bleach, Helba and Bordeau from .hack, Jagura from Wolf’s Rain, Nuriko in Fushigi Yuugi and Caroline from Vampire Hunter D. She also portrays Zahra on Geek & Sundry’s Critical Role.

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

With literally hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Veteran Voice Monkey Steve Blum is best known as the voice of “Spike Spiegel” from Cowboy Bebop, “Wolverine” from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more), “Orochimaru,” “Zabuza,” and others from Naruto, “Green Goblin” from the Spectacular Spiderman series, “Heatblast,” “Vilgax” and “Ghostfreak” from Ben 10, “Grayson Hunt” (Bulletstorm) “Grunt” (Mass Effect 2 and 3),”Zoltan Kulle” from Diablo 3, “Abathur” from Starcraft 2:Heart of the Swarm, “Tank Dempsey” (Call of Duty), “Killer Croc” from Arkham Asylum, “Oghren” (DragonAge),“Vincent Valentine” (Final Fantasy VII), “Leeron” (Guren Lagann), “Jamie” from Megas XLR, “Storm Troopers” and many others in most of the Star Wars games, The voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Guinness Book of World records as Most Prolific Voice Actor in Video Games – appearing in almost 300 games (now approaching 400!)

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

Dave Wittenberg is an American Voice Actor. He’s most famous for voicing Kakashi Hatake in the Naruto and Boruto series. He is also know for his work as Kefka Palazzo in the Final Fantasy series, Saito in the original Ghost in the Shell, Takumi in Initial D, Sora in .hack//SIGN, and Parco Folgore & Ponygon in Zatch Bell. In the video game world he is known for playing Vision and Toad in Marvel Heroes, Scarecrow in Lego Batman, Trigger Happy in Skylanders and The Mad Doctor in Disney’s Epic Mickey. On the big screen he has appeared as Lee Sampson in Cowboy BeBop The Movie, Buddy Alexander in Resident Evil Damnation, Kalia in Delhi Safari, and the Singing Voice of Franz in Disney’s Planes.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
TBA

2020 Esports

Phil Visu

Witty wonder. Velvety voice. Phenomenal Phil.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

TKbreezy

TKbreezy is one of the most well known Smash commentators of our time. He has commentate many high profile events throughout the 10+ years he’s been on the mic you can catch him live at LVL UP EXPO

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

XxShinobazuxX

Before he got into steaming, XxShinobazuxX dreamed of a day where he could play video games for a living, like most gamers. Years later, he’s achieved that dream against all odds. Shino is now a full time content creator and has been in the content creation industry for about eight years. Before going full-time Shino held multiple jobs throughout the gaming industry including a 5 year term with Microsoft, as an Xbox Specialist and Gaming Expert for the Launch of the Xbox One. Shino is also a Twitch Partner who has also been practicing personal Stream Coaching for about three years helping over a dozen streamers reach Twitch Partnership. Shino works with content creators of all sizes looking for advice on how to grow a community and be successful in what they love to do. Having that mindset and having been a Las Vegas local since childhood, Shino also leads “Twitch Vegas” The Official Streamer community of Las Vegas Powered By Twitch. Shino’s current goal is to grow his community and help teach the next generation of streamers and Content Creators.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

2020 Industry Guests

Jez Roth

Cirque du Soleil. Celebrities. One Piece. EDC. Red Carpets. School of Cosplay.

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

Travelling to numerous destinations each year to model for exclusive companies, Holly Wolf has also been featured in multiple of your favourite magazines such as the FHM’s and Maxim’s all around the world. Also, as a 4x International Playmate that holds two lucrative Playboy Covers and a Playmate of the Year under her belt, Holly Wolf is a certified goal digger. <p>This avid gamer and cosplayer loves to stay at home to catch up on her favourite shows, such as My Hero Academia and the Fate Series, while creating her next cosplay project in her spare time. Holly is known for several of her cosplays, including several renditions of Zelda from The Legend Of Zelda, and Cammy from Street Fighter. With a passion for cosplay and traveling to conventions all over the world, Holly Wolf’s cosplay projects have reached audiences from multiple continents around the globe. The news site Vice has publsihed a cosplay article reaching over 15 million people worldwide, and she has co-hosted a gaming show on Playboy.com titled “The Rabbit’s Arcade”. Holly also runs 2 Youtube channels, one for her cosplays construction, vlogs, gaming and hauls, with her secondary channel for gardening and home improvment. You can also find Holly streaming weekly on Twitch as a partnered streamer, and catch her creating cosplay content on her Patreon.

Miso Tokki

Miso Tokki is a cosplayer of 10 years with a background in sewing and theater. She is inspired by the vast talents the cosplay community brings herself and others. She strives to always improve her crafting skills to bring smiles and joy to fans and other artists through cosplay.

Insta: miso_tokki
Twitter: tokkimiso
Patreon: Patreon.com/misotokki

Ali Brazil

Aly is a cosplayer and bright personality who has been dedicated to cosplay for 10 years. She has spent her decade of experience being self taught in costuming, makeup, and art. Her goal is to bring her passion for anime and costuming into the community to inspire other fans alike and bring favorite characters to life through cosplay.

insta: aly.brazil
twitter: alybrazil_
facebook: Aly Brazil Cosplay
Patreon: patreon.com/alybrazil

Unicorn Astronaut

Unicorn Astronaut has been cosplaying for four years and is an avid streamer on Twitch. She has traveled around
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

An extraordinary pair of artists, the Chalk Twins are renowned for their chalk murals of epic proportions. Traveling the world in pursuit of artistic mastery, they are a regular installment at conventions and events across the country where they produce massive chalk masterpieces live. The Chalk Twins are truth in advertising – they are twins, and they work together with soft pastel chalk. When you see them, we encourage you to get down low and talk to them. They would be glad to answer questions and talk about art, geeky stuff, twin stuff – whatever you like. They don’t bite. We promise.

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

Lindsay Jones is an actor/voice actor based in Austin, TX, and is known for her voice roles in various Rooster Teeth Productions including Ruby in RWBY, Kimball in Red vs. Blue, Space Kid in Camp Camp, and more. She is also one of the main on-camera personalities at Rooster Teeth, appearing in various live-action series and podcasts, and as a cast member of the popular Gaming channel, Achievement Hunter.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
Autographs: $20
Selfies: $20

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: $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.

Appearance Dates:
Friday-Sunday

Pricing:
Autographs: $20
Selfies: $20

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: $20
Selfies: $20

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!

Appearance Dates:
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?

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
Photograph: $30
Autograph: $30
Photograph & Autograph Combo: $50
Audio & Video Recording: $40

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.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
Photographs: 3 Mario poses $40
Autograph: $40
Combo: $70
Autograph on Poster: $50
Voice Recording: $50

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.

Appearance Dates:
Saturday and Sunday

Pricing:
Selfie/Photograph: $30
Autograph: $30
Photograph & Autograph Combo: $50

Kenny James

Kenny is best known as the voice of Bowser in the Nintendo Super Mario Bros franchise with over 35 title credits. He has been providing the voice and personality of Bowser since Super Mario Strikers in 2005. Other voice work includes Zingo, a story telling dragon for a children’s program, narration and audiobooks. Kenny is also a prolific theater actor performing in musicals, dramas and comedies in the Puget Sound area.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
Selfie/Photograph: $20
Autograph: $30
Photograph & Autograph Combo: $40

Past Horror & Film

John Kassir

John Kassir is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is known as the voice of the Crypt Keeper in HBO’s Tales from the Crypt franchise.[1] Kassir is also known for his voice over work as Buster Bunny (taking over for Charlie Adler late in the final season of Tiny Toon Adventures), Ray “Raymundo” Rocket on Rocket Power, the mischievous raccoon Meeko in Pocahontas and its direct-to-video sequel, Jibolba in the Tak and the Power of Juju video game series, Pete Puma in The Looney Tunes Show, and Deadpool in X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse and the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series.
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

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
Table Selfie: $20
Autograph: $40
Table Selfie & Autograph Combo: $50
Audio & Video Recording: $50

Mark Dodson

Mark Dodson is the voice talent that provided the voice for Salacious Crumb in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. For Gremlins he is the voice of many of the Gremlins and mischievous Mogwais. For Gremlins 2, he is the voice actor for Daffy, George, and Lenny, along with miscellaneous gremlins/mogwai. He continues to voice for films, commercials, video games, and narrate TV shows.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
Table Selfie: $20
Autograph: $40
Table Selfie & Autograph Combo: $50
Audio & Video Recording: $50

Roger Jackson

Roger Jackson is an American voice actor. He is best known for voicing Ghostface in the Scream film series, where E! ranked him as #46 on Best Kept Secrets of Hollywood. He is also well known for voicing the character Mojo Jojo on The Powerpuff Girls.

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.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
Table Selfie: $20
Autograph: $40
Table Selfie & Autograph Combo: $50
Audio & Video Recording: $50

Felix Silla

Cousin It in Adam’s Family (Horror)
Twiki in Buck Rogers (Sci-Fi)
Glider Ewok in Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Planet of the Apes

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Pricing:
$40 Autograph
$20 Selfie
$50 Combo

Tony Todd

Tony Todd is an American character actor, voice artist and film producer known for portraying Sergeant Warren in Platoon (1986), Kurn in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990–1991), Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1990), the titular character in the Candyman horror trilogy (1992–1999), William Bludworth in the Final Destination franchise (2000–2011) and as the voice of The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). In 2015, Todd was cast as the disguised voice of Zoom in the second season of The Flash.

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

Pricing:
Table Selfie: $20
Autograph: $50
Table Selfie & Autograph Combo: $70
Audio & Video Recording: $50

Past YouTube Stars

Grant Smith

Grant “MasterWuggles” Smith is a member of Team Four Star who primarily contributes to the TFS Gaming branch of operations. When he’s not busy being handsome and smart, you can typically find him being 100% correct on all things related to Pokémon and being the most competent Dark Souls player in the company. He also really likes Kingdom Hearts.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Blastphamous

Richard Maurice Barnett a comedian, also known as Blastphamous HD to his fans, was born on October 16th, 1985 in Compton, California. He spent most of his childhood growing
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.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Kirran Somerlade

Kirran Somerlade is the supreme overlord of Team Four Star’s gaming branch and a world record speedrunner. As a master-class orator he plays the esteemed role of the World Tournament Announcer in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. He also appears in many other online parodies and reviews. He has co-written multiple episodes of Dragon Ball Z Abridged and a few of the movie specials and one-offs. Thanks to his degree in English he knows how to words really good. He thinks he can play the guitar, speak Japanese, and make the yucks. If you’ve heard of a Kirran on the Internet, it’s probably him.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

D Piddy

Cosplaying and attending geek-centric social gatherings since the release of Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue on Nintendo’s short lived Gamecube, D-Piddy’s unique take of the morally ambiguous Deadpool has infused levity and multi-fandom awareness to a character many fans have admired for years. Starting his YouTube channel in late 2012, D-Piddy now creates content that spans various genres within pop culture, sometimes even collaborating with the likes of Marvel, 20th Century Fox, FUNimation, Bandai Namco Entertainment and many more.

Destined to save the world, D-Piddy now travels the universe on his trusty robot unicorn, the Mikazuki 5, always on the lookout to discover new meanings to life, in the pursuit of knowledge, adventure and love. You can also find him playing his favorite video games on Twitch nowadays

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Tyler Koi

Bio Coming Soon

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Funker

Funker is a Canadian infantry veteran, and founder of the popular Funker530 veteran community sites across social media (one of the largest worldwide military networks in existence). Funker’s mission is to give veterans and active duty members a place to connect with others who have shared similar life experiences and ensure that no veteran is left in the dark feeling alone after their service.
When Funker isn’t streaming PUBG and other FPS games on Twitch.tv/FunkerGaming, he’s spending time with his wife and son, hunting, or fishing.

Appearance Dates:
Friday

Past Esports

TK Breezy

TKbreezy, or TK, is a Super Smash Bros. 4, Melee, and Project M commentator from Honolulu, Hawaii who is currently residing in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is known for his commentary at Smash @ Xanadu and regionals in the MD/VA area, and he commentates national tournaments regularly. As a player, TKbreezy was also formerly ranked 20th on the MD/VA Smash 4 Power Rankings.

Appearance Dates:
Saturday and Sunday

EEvisu

EEvisu is a Professional Esports Caster, SmashBros Enthusiast & Personality, Twitch Partnered Streamer for Splyce

Appearance Dates:
Saturday and Sunday

Miccoy

Kevin “Miccoy” Linn is entering his 2nd year with Ghost PUBG. Not only attending more LAN events in his first year with Ghost, but he is also currently the #1 earning NA player since PUBG esports began. Miccoy has been a leader since day one with consistent LAN performances in the top of the Kill and Damage leaderboards. Staying away from sniper rifles, Miccoy’s AR skills have developed into some of the best in the entire PUBG scene. Along with that, Miccoy is consistently able to realize a negative situation and snake his way into top 5 placements to earn much-needed points for Ghost.

Appearance Dates:
Friday

KatContii

KatContii was born in California and raised in Las Vegas. She started playing video games at a young age on the NES, but really got into gaming thanks to Xbox. She competed in Twitch Broadcaster Royale Season 2 last year where she made it into the finals and also actively creates content for Rogue, a professional esports team. Kat has been streaming on Twitch for 4 years where she’s been partnered for the past three and a half. She’s known as an intelligent and direct gamer caring as much about the more complex mathematical aspects of a game, as the game mechanics themselves.

Appearance Dates:
Friday

Lucy Mae

Lisa Malambri aka “LucyMae” is a vibrant on-camera personality with over 10 years experience in front of the camera & on live stage. She is a host and shoutcaster having worked on several video game titles such as PUBG, Rainbow Six, Guns of Boom, Fortnite & Gears of War alongside companies such as ESL, ESP Gaming, Twitch & NGE. On her down-time, you can catch Lisa live streaming Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds as a Twitch partner under the alias “iAmLucyMae” where there is no shortage of chicken and high octane fun.

Appearance Dates:
Friday

Past Industry

Jez Roth

Cirque du Soleil. Celebrities. One Piece. EDC. Red Carpets.

After many years of competing at anime convention masquerades, winning Best in Show 16 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 Kardiashian, 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. TL;DR – Lip Sync for Your Cosplay is here. Get ready to werk!

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Past Performing Artists

The 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, buyprints and originals online at http://chalktwins.com/wp1/shop/.

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday

Past Comic

Dan Mendoza

With a background in animation and a love for comic books, Dan Mendoza set out to make his own Title using the elements that influenced him most. Grind house movies, Russ Meyer Films, Tokyo Shock cinema, horror, and anime.
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.”

Appearance Dates:
Friday – Sunday