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SACANIME SUMMER 2023 September 1st – 3rd, 2023

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SACANIME SUMMER 2023 is being held Friday, Saturday and Sunday September 1st – 3rd, 2023 at Sacramento’s SAFE Credit Union Convention Center.
For more information check out www.sacanime.com
  
GOD OF WARCHRISTOPHER JUDGE – KRATOS
SUNNY SULJIC– ATREUS
DANIELLE BISUTTI – FREYA
ALASTAIR DUNCAN – MIMIR
ADAM J. HARRINGTON – SINDRI
ROBERT CRAIGHEAD – BROK
  


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GUESTS
NICK APOSTOLIDESSince 2011, Nick Apostolides has developed his heavy dramatic style of method acting in films, worked on over 100 commercials, been nominated for an Emmy (Hosting) and has now entered the world of Motion Capture/VO. Most recently he portrayed Officer Leon Kennedy in the Resident Evil 2 & 4 Remake (body, face, voice) and has also voiced 2 characters over 3 games in the Life Is Strange universe (Frank Bowers and Charles Erikson). Right now he is traveling the world on a 10-episode Docu-build show that helps communities/organizations in need. Stay tuned for some new and exciting MoCap projects that are already completed!Nick was born in Salem, MA and spent most of his life in the Boston area. He was lucky enough to have been raised with two amazing brothers, Steve and Dave. He led an extremely artistic and creative childhood but eventually shifted his focus to acting due to his love of the cinematic experience. The unconditional support of his parents Steve and Dotty has always played a huge factor in every single endeavor.Though he is always very sociable and outgoing, Nick often portrays characters that have more stoic, complex and mysterious qualities. Reflection and empathy play the largest role in his preparation.
IRENE BEDARDIrene Bedard is a Native American actor, director, producer and advocate. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and is the daughter of Bruce Bedard and Carol Otton and the granddaughter of David and Irene Otton from the village of Koyuk.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. After university, she moved to New York City and was a founding member of the Native American Theater Ensemble, Chuka Lokoli. She has performed on stages including Circle in the Square, Ensemble Studio Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, and the prestigious Joseph Papp Public Theater.
Soon after, she began a career in film and television and has over 100 credits including Lakota Woman for which she was nominated a Golden Globe, Grand Ave produced by Robert Redford, Into The West a Steven Spielberg miniseries, the cult classic Smoke Signals, the voice of Disney’s Pocahontas, which she has most recently reprised in Wreck it Ralph 2.
She can currently be seen in the Netflix Original series Longmire, Stephen King’s series The Mist for Spike TV, the 444th President of the United States in the Ava Duvernay directed Jay Z Beyonce collaboration, and HBO’s Westworld. 
Irene has received much critical acclaim for her performances and garnered numerous Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards from such organizations as the Emmy’s, The First Americans In The Arts, American Indian Film Festival, NAMIC VISION AWARDS, Diversity Awards, LA Film Festival, and Sundance Audience Award.
Irene is very honored to be inducted into the 2018 class of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Irene has been honored as an inductee into the Museum of Western Heritage and was the first Native American woman to be inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame, has received honorary degrees from Sitting Bull College and the Institute of the American Indian Arts, and the Alumni Award of Excellence from the University of the Arts. She has been Artist in Residence at Vox Box Arts Collective 501(c)(3) in Los Angeles for 20 years. Has co-chaired the Native American Collection of the Art Train and the American Indian College Funds Flame of Hope Gala.
Irene has made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Tyra Banks Show, Bill Maher, and The Roseanne Barr Show. She has been photographed by Annie Leibovitz and has been featured in Mademoiselle, USA Today, Native Peoples, and was chosen as one of People Magazines 50 Most Beautiful People. She was a guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner during Bill Clinton’s administration.She currently serves on the American Indian Enterprise and Business Council Board as the Delegate to the White House and U.N., as well as the Special Consul to the U.N. for the Cities of Peace and the World Indigenous Forum where she is currently working to form a Peace Treaty based on the Values formulated by Standing Rock. She served on the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists National Diversity Committee, and also served on the National Task Force in support of VAWA for the National Congress of the American Indians, personally delivering 180,000 signatures to Sentaro Baynor’s office during her attendance of the NIWRC (National Indian Women’s Resource Center) field hearings throughout the United States.
More recently, Irene is honored and humbled to be named Artist in Residence at Perseverance Theater, to follow with her mission and vision statement: To Heal through the Power and Art of Storytelling. She continues working on Grace…And, in the face of hatred, bigotry and outright lies…..E Pluribus Unum. Out of Many, One. Or as the Lakota say…. Mitakuye Oyasin……We are all Related.
DANIELLE BISUTTIDanielle Bisutti is a Los Angeles born and raised Emmy Award winning and BAFTA Award nominated actress, writer, producer, director and singer-songwriter. As a thespian, Bisutti has distinguished herself by bringing a wide range of diverse characters to life.The Actress: Danielle was nominated for a BAFTA for her performance as The Norse Goddess “Freya” in Sony PlayStation’s top grossing video-game God of War, which won unanimous “Game of the Year” awards and 5 BAFTA Awards including “Best Game” in 2019. She won a Los Angeles area Emmy Award for her hosting role in Street Music Los Angeles in 2002. Danielle performance captured the role of “Claudia Grimstone” in Madden NFL 21: Face of the Franchise: Rise to Fame 2020, she voiced “Wonder Woman” in The Lego Movie 2 Videogame, she portrayed the ominous “Ms. Grey” in Lifetime’s Nanny Killer, “Dana Gallagher in Shonda Rhimes’ For the People and series regular role as Witch “Hexela” in BUYtv’s Dwight in Shining Armor distributed by Paramount.Film credits include top grossing Sony Pictures’ cult favorite Insidious: Chapter 2 (receiving rave reviews: “Bisutti’s performance as [Mother of Parker Crane] the younger version of the Bride in Black is a most elegant personification of evil.”), Starring in Universal Studio’s Curse of Chucky, “Norma Steele” in The Blue Rose Executive Produced by Jay Van Hoy, Michael Rosenbaum’s indie comedy Back in the Day, Lionsgate’s Venice Underground with Eric Mabius, The Neighbor with Matthew Modine, and the lead in Lionsgate’s faith-based film, No Greater Love. Bisutti is perhaps best known for her series regular role as”Amanda Cantwell” opposite Keke Palmer on the hit Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP. Her recurring roles on Matador for Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network, Parks & Recreation, Last Man Standing, CSI Miami, Without A Trace, Raising the Bar and The O.C., Guest Starring roles on Anger Management, Grey’s Anatomy, Mom, NCIS, NCIS LA, Criminal Minds, Dr. Ken, Castle, Hot in Cleveland, Newsreaders, 90210, Rizzoli & Isles, Beauty and the Beast, Body of Proof, Leverage, Bones, Cold Case, Two and a Half Men and Boston Legal. Notable Theater credits include originating the role of “Diane” in the new musical Hipster Sweatshop at the Rockwell, “Sheila” in the musical HAIR Potawanami Tribe performed at the Democratic National Convention 1996 in Chicago followed by a 5 week tour at The New Athenaeum Theatre, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Maggie in Boy’s Life, Yelena in Uncle Vanya, Victoria in Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, Fastrada in Pippin, and Ophelia in Hamlet.The Singer-Songwriter: Danielle’s original songs have been placed in films: Venice Underground, April Moon, In the Presence of, Shadowheart, and theme song Heaven for indie feature City of… which she performed live at the 19th Annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards Desert AIDS Project accompanying dancers Kupono and Marko from So You Think You Can Dance with with choreography by Ray Leeper. She received a Los Angeles Music Award for “Best Female Singer-Songwriter.” Her album “Glimmer” was nominated for AAA Album of the Year and her song “In Passing” has received Unanimous Choice Recipient Award for Independent AC Single of the Year. Music Connection Magazine has featured Danielle in its Hot 100 Unsigned Artists list. Annually Danielle sings on stage with rock n’ roll legends at the Venice Beach Sign Holiday Lighting ceremony, past artists: Al Jardine of The Beach Boys and Andy Summers of The Police. Danielle sings and plays piano, guitar and ukulele with her band Midnight Velvet, interweaving jazz and blues standards in their smooth, inventive way and reinterpret songs from the Great American Songbook to modern day rock-pop classics a la the vintage style of Postmodern Jukebox.Danielle received her Bachelor of Arts at California State University at Fullerton graduating Magna Cum Laude with a double emphasis on Acting and Musical Theatre. While attending CSUF, she received several nominations for the Irene Ryan Best Actress Award and took runner-up at The Lincoln Center Theatre in NYC. She continued her studies with Eric Kline at Film Actor’s Workshop, Larry Moss, Lesly Kahn and Shari Shaw Studios and improv at Upright Citizens Brigade.
STEVE BLUMWith 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!)You can also 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, Severalcharacters 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.
DON BLUTHBluth’s passion for the Art of Animation is the driving force that fueled his film career for a period of more than four decades. According to Bluth, he was not driven to animation but extremely attracted to it mainly because of the sheer beauty of its look. Don grew up on the early Disney films, Snow White, Bambi and Pinocchio. He was only four years old when these pictures inspired him. He knew immediately that someday, it would be part of his world. Bluth is considered by some critics to be unique in that he successfully challenged the powers of the ‘Mouse House,’ as a serious competitor, bringing to the silver screen such memorable milestones as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and Anastasia.’ All in all, Don and his partner, Gary Goldman, produced twelve animated features and three video games including, Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace.
Don Bluth is one of the most acclaimed directors and animators in the industry. His peers from all over the world admire him for his creative talents as well as his versatility in bringing memorable characters to life. He designs the characters, serves as Key Storyboard Artist, and when the mood strikes him, he has also been known to compose some clever songs and collaborate on most of the scripts for his projects. Both he and his partner, Gary Goldman are responsible for the training of over 1000 artisans that currently populate the industry. Bluth was born into a family of seven children in El Paso, Texas. He grew up on a dairy farm in Payson, Utah in a highly creative environment. When he was not milking cows, he was drawing cartoons. Animation captured his fancy and soon he was dreaming about working for Walt Disney. In 1955 he graduated from high school, and immediately took a portfolio of his drawings to the Disney studios in Burbank where he landed a position in the animation department as an in-betweener. Bluth worked at Disney from 1955 through 1956 on the classic motion picture Sleeping Beauty. He left after one year to follow other life pursuits, re-entered the animation field in 1967 at Filmation Studios and finally returned to Disney in 1971. During his ten years working at the Walt Disney studios, Bluth had four fantastic mentors, John Lounsbery, Frank Thomas, Milt Kahl, and Wolfgang (Wooly) Reitherman. According to Bluth, the one he learned from the most was John Lounsbury. He was generous, knowledgeable, and I was dating his daughter. In 1979, Bluth, along with Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy, founded Don Bluth Productions.
GENEVIEVE BUECHNERGenevieve Buechner has been working in the film industry for 20+ years, starting as a child. Some of the projects she’s worked on include The 100, Caprica, and Unreal.More recently she has taken an interest in performance capture and mo-cap. Her first performance capture roll was Ashley Graham in the Capcom Resident Evil 4 Remake. She hopes to continue her journey in the mo-cap world, because of her passion and love for video games, as well as film and tv.
ROBERT CRAIGHEADRobert Craighead is an award winning actor, writer, producer and country singer. An alumni of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he is respected as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Craighead is known for his recent roles in Seth Rogen’s Hulu TV series, ‘Future Man’, as Detective Vincent Skarsgaard and as Tyler Perry’s “go-to” country sheriff. He was series regular, Sheriff Mobley, on Perry’s ‘Too Close to Home’ and currently stars in his 3rd Season as Sheriff Conley in Perry’s ‘Ruthless’ on BET Plus.Robert recently completed a new feature film with his old AADA classmate and fellow alumni, Nick Cassavetes in Mexico City titled “God Is A Bullet” to be released in 2022. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe and Jamie Foxx. It marks the first time they had been reunited since their days at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in the early ’80’s.Also to be released in 2022, Robert appears in the new action filled, dark comedy “Redville”, written and directed by Isacc Eaton and starring Jake Manley and Chris Elliott.His extremely notable career has spanned over 30 years. He has made guest appearances in hundreds of television shows, had roles in over 50 feature films, performed in over 100 theatrical productions and has seen recent success as a country music singer.Craighead is recognized for his deep, gravelly voice and has appeared in several highly successful motion-capture video games. He starred as Brok, the foul-mouthed blacksmith, in 2018’s Video Game of the Year, ‘God of War’ and is currently reprising this role in the sequel “God of War : Ragnarok” currently in production. He also starred as the evil Father Matthias opposite Camilla Luddington’s Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Raider’ and starred as the diabolical General Hemlock in ‘Dead Rising 3’, among others.Craighead also writes and produces his own projects in association with the production company he founded, Positude Productions. Most recently he produced the 2020 award winning short film ‘Amazing Grace’. His screenplay ‘Catch a Fallen Star’, featuring music by CMA and Grammy winner Paul Overstreet, is in the works and a television comedy pilot, ‘And the Weeds Grow Taller’, has garnered screen writing awards at several recent film festivals. Originally from the tiny Texas oil town of Electra, Robert makes Los Angeles his home with his wife of over 30 years, Jennifer.
ALASTAIR DUNCANAlastair Duncan is perhaps best known as the voice of Mimir, in God of War and God of War Ragnarok, as well as Celebrimbor in Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a game that is more popular today than when it was released 10 years ago, and Alfred in 5 seasons of The Batman and 8 subsequent Batman films and video games.On film he starred in the cult sci fi movie Split Second as Dick Durkin alongside Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall, as well as the movies The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Fifth Day, Sleeping With Strangers, The Hound Of The Baskervilles and Trick of the Eye. His television credits include starring in the first five seasons of the Scottish Television series Taggart as Det Sergeant Neil Livingstone and guest starring in over 60 TV movies and series.
CHRIS EDGERLYEver since he was a kid growing up in Georgia, Chris has done his best to entertain audiences wherever he could find them. Whether it was his brothers or his classmates, Chris decided that his ability to do voices and characters was the perfect alternative to a traditional career path. Once he discovered acting and stand-up in college, his trajectory was set. After ten years touring the country as a professional comedian and sometimes actor, Chris segued into the world of voice acting and hasn’t looked back. He’s provided voices for hundreds of commercials, tv shows, video games and films, including Pathfinder in Apex Legends, Hidan in Naruto, Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy, Gobber the Belch in Dragons: Race to the Edge, Jedi Master Eeth Koth in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Peter Potamus in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Infomat in Passengers opposite Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, dozens of characters in The Simpsons, and more. When not recording for his latest project, Chris enjoys interacting with a growing community of gaming and animation fans on his Twitch stream and spending time with his wife and two children.
LILY GAOLily Gao is a Chinese-born Canadian actress who had roles in the TV shows The Expanse and Second Jen. She portrayed Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and the 2023 video game Resident Evil 4.
ADAM J. HARRINGTONAdam J. Harrington is a BAFTA nominated Canadian born actor/vo artist. He had two passions in life growing up acting and the ocean. So after a finishing graduate school in Marine Biology, he became an actor. Adam has over 100 credits in film and TV, and is known for his comic turn as Congressman Murray in PARKS AND RECREATION (NBC), Bartholomew in SUPERNATURAL (CW), and ETHAN in THE SECRET CIRCLE (CW). In the video game world Adam has only worked on three titles, but they packed a punch. In the groundbreaking facial capture game LA NOIRE he played the jaded cop ROY EARLE which earned him a NAVGTR nomination. He followed that playing the charismatic con man Tyler Latchford in BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE. Then came the blockbuster game GOD OF WAR 2018 where he played SINDRI, the weapon making germaphobic dwarf. He reprised the role for GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK, earning him another NAVGTR nomination, as well as a BAFTA nomination for his work. Adam currently resides in LA where, when not working, he can on a surfboard.
CISSY JONESCissy Jones is an award-winning actress whose voiceover career spans the gamut from animation to video games and everything in between. She is best known for her BAFTA-Award winning performance in 2016’s indie game darling FIREWATCH, and as your favorite cool aunt Lilith Clawthorne in Disney’s The Owl House. Keep an ear out, she’s probably in that game you’re playing right now!  
CHRISTOPHER JUDGEDouglas Christopher Judge (“Judge”) was born and raised in Los Angeles, and always knew that he wanted to be an actor, wanting to invoke feelings in others that he was receiving from the shows he watched. He realized quickly that sports would be the stepping stone to an acting career.Attending the University of Oregon on a football scholarship, Judge led in kickoff return yardage for 1983-84 and interceptions in 1984, in addition to earning the Casanova Award in 1982 (given to the freshman or newcomer of the year). Judge was also a three-time All-American, a Pacific-10 ConferenceSelection in 1984, and played in the 1985 Hula Bowl. While at Oregon, Judge was a pre-med major, then psychology, then telecommunications and film, with a minor in psychology. In his senior year, he won a regional contest to host the West Coast Fox KLSR Morning Show, an “MTV talk show-type thing”; he used this experience to get an agent and move to Los Angeles.Judge began studying at the Howard Fine Institute in LA in 1989. Some early roles were “Bird on a Wire, Cadence”, “Neon Rider” and “MacGyver” with future “Stargate SG-1” star Richard Dean Anderson. In the ensuing years, Judge had small parts in various television shows and movies, such as “21 Jump Street” (with future SG-1 director Peter DeLuise), “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, and” House Party 2”, and as a regular on “Sirens” from 1994 to 1995.Judge’s first lead role in a series came in 1997 with “Stargate SG-1”. While at a friend’s house, he saw his friend’s roommate practicing for an audition and he was intrigued. He looked at the audition notes, then called his agent and insisted he get him an audition as well. Judge has now steadily kept busy over the years with various acting projects. Notably he has starred in the films “Paradox”, “Knock ‘em Dead”, “A Tiger’s Tail”, and most recently “Guardians of Justice (Will Save You!)”.Judge also wrote four episodes of “Stargate SG-1”: “The Changeling”, “Birthright”, “Sacrifices” and “The Warrior”. Additionally, Judge co-wrote that series “Starhawks” (which is currently in prep) with long time writing and producing partner Mike Disa, whom he also collaborated with on the animated series “Dead Space Aftermath” and “Wacky Races”. They are also currently prepping the anime series “Pendulum” with Madison Jones and the legendary Suzanne de Passe.Judge is an actor for numerous animated series and video games. He is the voice of Magneto on the animated series “X-Men: Evolution” and Oreskis on the animated series, “Final Space” which is produced by Conan O’Brien. Judge is the voice of Jericho in the videogame “Turok” and he voices T’Challa in the video game “Marvel Avengers: War for Wakanda”. He also voices Nick Kuttner in the animated movie “Dead Space Aftermath” as well as D-Mov in the wildly popular game “Def Jam Vendetta” and “Def Jam: Fight for NY”.Judge is currently best known for his award winning lead performance of Kratos in the video game “God of War” and “God of War: Ragnarök”. For this role, Judge won Best Actor at the Game Awards in 2022, as well as a DICE award in 2018 and 2023. Judge was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2018 and won for Performer in a Leading Role in 2023.
TOM KENNYSATURDAY ONLY!
Tom Kenny has voiced SpongeBob since the beginning and is the show’s voice director. After starting as a standup comedian, Tom was featured in Bobcat Goldthwait’s 1992 cult comedy “Shakes the Clown” and in the influential sketch comedy series “Mr. Show with Bob and David”. His hundreds of Voice Over credits include “Rocko’s Modern Life”, “Adventure Time”, Futurama”, and “Rick and Morty”. Heard in commercials, video games and movies ranging from Wonderful Halos Oranges, Honda and “Spyro the Dragon” to “Winnie the Pooh” and “Transformers” Tom was recently seen in the Steve Carell/Emma Stone film “Battle of the Sexes”. His elastic voice and high-energy stage presence are seen to full advantage in the high-octane 12-piece rocknsoul band “Tom Kenny & the Hi-Seas.” Tom and co-writer Andy Paley wrote the song “Best Day Ever” which is featured in the smash hit “SpongeBob Squarepants The Broadway Musical”. They received the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for “Outstanding New Score”. That score is also nominated for the 2018 “Best Original Score” Tony award. In 2018 Tom Kenny received an Emmy Award for “Best Performer in an Animated Program” for his work on SpongeBob Squarepants”. For appearance and signing inquiries please contact his agent: Zach@GalacticProductionsLLC.com.
GABE KUNDAGrammy nominated vocalist, Gabe Kunda is a voice actor from Dallas, TX. He has lent his voice to several iconic characters across various media platforms, including video games, animation, movie trailers, TV promos, and commercials. Some of his most notable voice acting roles include Newcastle Apex Legends, KAY/O in Valorant, Macaron in Hi-Fi Rush, Kel in Barbie: It Takes Two and Chainsaw Man, Bat Devil in Chainsaw Man, Lock Lock aka Rock Lock in My Hero Academia, Desha in Ranking of Kings, Kaburagi in Deca Dence, King in One Piece, Atlas in Omega Strikers, and Delling in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.Gabe has also lent his voice to numerous commercials for various well-known brands. These brands include Bolt 24, Subway, CNN, TBS, Disney Plus, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, and WWE.
MELA LEEMela Lee is a voice actress and vocalist based in Los Angeles whose work can be heard in over two hundred animated series, films, television shows and video games. She is best known as the voice of Lifeline in Apex Legends, and the voice of Jade in Mortal Kombat 11, Rin Tohsaka in the Fate Stay Night Franchise and Tikki in Miraculous Ladybug, and Kikimora in TheOwl House for Disney.In Anime, she voices Rin Tohsaka in the Fate/stay night series, Kanata Ubuyashiki in DemonSlayer, Melascula in Seven Deadly Sins, Canary in HunterxHunter,Yuki Cross in Vampire Knight, Shinku in Rozen Maiden, Erica Karisawa in Durarara!! Freya in SwordArt Online, & Rena in the cult favorite When They CryAdditional animation credits include Princess Zanda for Marvel Avengers Assemble: Black Panther’s Quest( Disney), Maestro Moon in Do Re+Mi with Kristen Bell (Amazon) , and Lady Fuwa in Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (Netflix)In video games, in addition to Apex Legends and Mortal Kombat 11, you can find her as the voice of Rachel Alucard in BlazBlue, Adult & Young Tiki in the Fire Emblem Franchise, Sharon Krueger/Scarlet in Trails of Cold Steel, Zeta in Gran Blue Versus.She is the lead composer and vocalist for Magnolia Memoir with Alexander Burke and has a new Solo Album slated for Spring 2023.Her hobbies and interests include Mental Health Awareness and support for First Responders, Quantum Theory, Neuroscience, Material Ecology, and baking for her charity MellaBellaBakery.Follow Mela on Social Media:@TheMelaLee Instagram @TheMelaLee Twitter @TheMelaLee TikTokFor News and to Sign up for FREE VoiceActing workshops go to www.MelaLee.com For a complete listing of credits – go to www.Imdb.me/MelaLee
ERICA LUTTRELLErica Luttrell was born in Toronto, Canada to a Tanzanian mother and an American father. Youngest of four girls, Erica began her acting career at the age of two, starring in numerous commercials from Pampers to Cadillac before booking her first lead role in a television series at the age of nine.After several seasons on Shining Time Station, the animated series The Magic School Bus (co-starring comedy legends George Carlin and Lily Tomlin respectively) and others, she migrated south to Los Angeles, California.She’s most recently recurred on Westworld, and the CBS series Salvation, guest starred on Magnum P.I., iZombie, Arrow, and NCIS, to name a few, and continues to voice an impressive list of critically lauded animated and video game titles including Steven Universe, Dishonored II, Diablo III, Injustice 2, Voltron, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Apex Legends and The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants on Netflix.Her middle name “Shukrani” means to give thanks.
XANDER MOBUSXander Mobus is a voice over actor from LA. You might know his work in Persona 5 Joker, Super Smash Bros as The Announcer, The Hands and Ren Amamiya, Jujutsu Kaisen as Toge Inumaki and Aoi Todo, League of Legends as Sett, Boruto as Inojin and Momoshiki, and Street Fighter V as Abigail. He’s also played major characters in Soul Calibur VI, One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100, Demon Slayer, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Hunter x Hunter, A Hat in Time, Detective Pikachu, Erased, Naruto, Rising of the Shield Hero, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, Fire Emblem Heroes, Fire Emblem Warriors, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Sword Art Online, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Blue Exorcist, Monster Hunter and many more!
MARCIO MORENOMarcio Moreno is a Canadian actor, originally from Argentina. He’s best know for playing Ramon Salazar in Resident Evil 4 Remake. Marcio got his start as a teenager with modeling and small roles in soap operas in South America.At age 20 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he pursued theatre before moving to Vancouver Canada in 2010 to attend Vancouver Film School’s full time acting for film and tv program. Over the last 12 years, Marcio appeared on projects such as, Psych, Charmed, Superman & Lois, Satanic Hispanics and many more. Marcio recently worked on Jenny Rivera Biopic, V/H/S 85 and Gasolina comic book adaptation. As well as acting, Marcio keeps on developing projects such as short films, features and music videos.

SACANIME WINTER 2023

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SACANIME WINTER 2023 is being held Friday, Saturday and Sunday January 6 – 8, 2023 at Sacramento’s SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

COVID-19 POLICYBased on CDC/Sacramento County/California Department of Public Health guidelines, there are no current requirements in place for providing proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test, and because of this, SacAnime will NOT be requiring onsite testing and/or proof of vaccination to gain entry into our event.
This does not mean we are less concerned about your health and safety. If you plan to attend SacAnime, we recommend testing yourself before arriving if you have not been vaccinated. Please do not attend the convention if you are not feeling well or have any cold-like symptoms. Masks will not be required, but we do strongly recommend wearing one.
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GUESTS
GREG BALDWINBaldwin voiced the beloved Uncle Iroh for the final seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender and for The Legend of Korra. He voiced Aku in the fifth season of Samurai Jack.He can also be heard as the ancient Jedi Master Tera Sinube, Gwarm, and Cassis on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He provided the voice of multiple characters in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, most notably, the voice of Furlac.Baldwin voiced the iconic character Frank Fontaine in the original Bioshock. In addition, he voiced Proctor Teagan in Fallout 4 and Jack M. Crazyfish in Spongebob Squarepants.In the 2007 film TMNT, Baldwin performed a substantial portion, believed to be 90 percent of Splinter’s dialogue in the movie after Mako died during production.
DANTE BASCOWith a career spanning over two and a half decades, DANTE BASCO is a Hollywood actor who has become a cult classic and pioneering figure in Asian American cinema. He was first introduced in Steven Spielberg’s fairytale movie Hook, as “Rufio”, the leader of the Lost Boys. He quickly jumped to leading roles like Newline’s Take the Lead, opposite Antonio Banderas, and The Debut, which became the voice of a Filipino American generation. 20th Century Fox executives were so mesmerized by the uniqueness of Dante’s look and ability that they gave him a development deal for his own series and he starred in a pilot for Touchstone/ABC, The Chang Family Saves the World, written and produced by John Ridley and directed by Paris Barclay. Ever versatile, he’s “Jake Long” in Disney’s animated series American Dragon: Jake Long as well as “Prince Zuko” in Nickelodeon’s phenomenal hit, Avatar: The Last Airbender.Born and raised in the City by the Bay, Dante started out breakdancing with his three brothers at the age of 8, calling themselves “The Street Freaks”. Quickly they became one of the top groups in San Francisco, opening for acts like Ice-T and Vanity and performing during half-time shows for the 49ers and the Oakland A’s.Dante and his family moved to Los Angeles in the mid-80s where he started to work immediately. By the age of 16, Dante was fencing against Dustin Hoffman and flying with Robin Williams in Hook. He’s found success on the small screen as well on from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and recurring on Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper and Moesha in the 90’s to prominent spots on Nash Bridges, Touched by an Angel, and Providence in the early 2000’s and hit shows today like CSI: Miami, Entourage and Hawaii Five-0.A young man of many talents, Dante is the founder of on e of the largest weekly poetry venue in the country, “Da Poetry Lounge” in Los Angeles and he has also shared his spoken word poetry on Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry Jam. He has also begun writing and producing his own features with his production company Kinetic Films, including Hang Loose, a (hilarious buddy) comedy with YouTube sensation KevJumba, winning the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Special Jury Prizes for “Best Actor” and “Best Newcomer” respectively.From breakdancing in the streets of San Francisco to starring in movies on the silver screen, Dante Basco has become one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood and truly an Asian American icon.
JUSTIN BRINERJustin Briner is an actor and singer known primarily for his work in anime and video games. Recently, he’s started up the third season of My Hero Academia as Izuku “Deku” Midoriya. He can also be heard as Mikaela in Seraph of the End, Nova in Space Patrol Luluco, Yukito and Yue in Cardcaptor Sakura, Yoichi in Drifters, Ayanokoji in Classroom of the Elite, Alfonso in GARO: The Animation, Niko in Nanbaka, Ryota Mitarai in Danganronpa 3, Frate in 91 Days, Qwenthur in Heavy Object, Manato in Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, and many more. Additionally, he has provided voices for games such as Dust: An Elysian Tail, SMITE, Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs, Cibele, and DreadOut.
STEVE BURTONSteve Burton is iconic to video game audiences everywhere for his portrayal as the original Cloud Strife in the Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy Franchise. Burton voiced Cloud Strife for over 15 years for both game franchises. He made his daytime television debut on “Days of Our Lives” before landing the contract role of Jason Quartermaine on “General Hospital” in 1991. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role of Jason Morgan in 1998. He left “General Hospital” in 2000 to pursue other roles. In 2001, Burton made his feature film debut in “The Last Castle” starring James Gandolfini and Robert Redford. In that same year, he also appeared in the Steven Spielberg Emmy Award-winning miniseries “Taken.” Burton returned to the role of Jason Morgan on “General Hospital” in 2017 and now is touring the country with his comedy show!
SHANNON CHAN-KENTShannon Chan-Kent is a Canadian voice and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Silver Spoon and Smolder and the singing voice of Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Misa Amane in the English dub of Death Note, and the Biskit twins and Youngmee Song on Littlest Pet Shop. She also portrays Joy Pepper in the rebooted Superbook, the Chief in Pucca, and Courtney’s best friend Janet in Spectacular!
CLIFFORD CHAPINClifford Chapin is a voice actor and director best known for his work in anime and video games. Some of his most prolific anime roles include Katsuki Bakugo in My Hero Academia, Conny Springer in Attack on Titan, Cabba in Dragon Ball Super, Hide in Tokyo Ghoul, and Charles Grey in Black Butler. As a director, Clifford has helmed many titles including Darling in the Franxx, SSSS Gridman, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, New Game, and Keijo!!!!!!!!
In addition to his voice over credits, Clifford has also worked behind the scenes for Marvel Entertainment’s publishing branch, as well as for several reality television series. In his downtime, he enjoys playing video games and reading comic books.
COLLEEN CLINKENBEARDColleen Clinkenbeard is a voice actor and director with over 300 roles in anime and video games. Currently she is most excited to be producing, directing, and acting in My Hero Academia!
Her credits include Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece, Kid Gohan, Android 18, and Mai in Dragon Ball Z Kai, and many of the Dragon Ball games, Momo Yaoyorozu in My Hero Academia, Erza in Fairy Tail, Riza Hawkeye in Full Metal Alchemist, Hana in Wolf Children, Akito in the 2019 Fruits Basket, Princess Hibana in Fire Force, Mia in Ace Attorney, Inner Moka in Rosario + Vampire, Yuko in xxxHolic and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Éclair in Kiddy Grade, Éclair in Ouran High School Host Club, Rachel in Case Closed, Chibi Romano in Hetalia, Maso and Himawari in Shin Chan, Esther in Trinity Blood, Rose in SoltyRei, Reina in Witchblade, Galatea in Claymore, Kareha in Shuffle!, Cordelia in Romeo x Juliet, Rin in Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, Matsu in Sekirei, Marie in Soul Eater, Makina in Deadman Wonderland, Scanty in Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, Scarlet in Space Dandy, Ema in Brothers Conflict, Millerna in The Vision of Escaflowne, Minako in Yuri!! On Ice, the Tiger in Juni Taisen and Nice in Baccano.
She can also be heard in video games playing the roles of Lilith, Tannis, and Captain Scarlet in the Borderlands series, Galilea and Nova in Battleborn, Arachne, Ne Zha, and Narrator Tutorial in Smite, Sorceress in Orcs Must Die, and many more.
You may know her as an ADR director, with credits such as My Hero Academia, Full Metal Alchemist, Steins;Gate, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic, Black Butler, Kiddy Grade, Kodocha, Negima, Moon Phase, Aquarion, Code Breaker, Fractale, Kenichi, and many more.
Twitter: @ccarrollbeardInstagram: @colleenclinkenbeard
GREY DELISLEGrey is a Grammy – winning singer/ songwriter who is known as the most prolific voice actress in American animation history, having performed over 1500 cartoon voices since 1996. Grey is also a comedian who launched her first stand-up comedy special, “My First Comedy Special” which has received rave reviews.Grey’s most iconic roles include “Vicky” from “The Fairly Odd Parents,” ‘Samantha “Sam” Manson’ from “Danny Phantom,” ‘Mandy’ from “The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy,” ‘Frankie Foster,” ‘Dutchess’ and ‘Goo’ from “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends,” ‘Yumi Yoshimura’ from “Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi,” ‘Azula’ from “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” ‘Kimiko Tohomiko’ from “Xiaolin Showsown,” as well as ‘Lola,’ ‘Lana’ and ‘Lily Loud’ from the “Loud House” and ‘Prince Puppycorn’ from “Unikitty!.” She’s also been the voice of ‘Daphne Blake’ in “Scooby-Doo” cartoons since 2000.Her film roles include ‘Grandma Sanchez’ in “The Book of Life,” ‘Arcee’ in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Bumblebee” and ‘Setsu Oiwa’ in Studio Ghibli’s final film, “When Marnie Was There.”
JACK DE SENAJack De Sena is an American actor and voice actor. He got his start on Nickelodeon as a regular on the sketch comedy series All That, and as the voice of Sokka on Avatar: The Last Airbender. Jack’s other credits include the Hulu series Battleground, the Blumhouse horror film The Veil, and Nickelodeon’s 100 Things To Do Before High School. You can now hear Jack as the voice of Prince Callum in the Netflix hit series The Dragon Prince. And you can check out his sketches on YouTube as the Jack half of “Chris and Jack”.
BRIAN DRUMMONDBrian Drummond is and has been one of the busiest & most recognized voices in animation in North America for over 25 years! He is an award winning performer who has voiced hundreds of roles in thousands of episodes of animation, including iconic characters such as the Original English VEGETA (DragonBall Z), WOLVERINE in numerous MARVEL features, VENOM (Spiderman Unlimited), RYUK (Deathnote), DR.CLAW (Inspector Gadget & the Gadgetinis), IRON MAN & GROOT (Marvel Super Hero Adventures), and KNUCKLES (Sonic Underground).A few of Brian’s other favorite shows include MY LITTLE PONY, LEGO STAR WARS, NINJAGO, TRANSFORMERS BEASTMACHINES, RATCHET & CLANK, MEGA-MAN, DINOTRUX, DINOSAUR TRAIN, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, THE WILLOUGHBY’S, HOTWHEELS-BATTLE FORCE 5, SUPER DINOSAUR, BOB THE BUILDER, NEXO-KNIGHTS, GERONIMO STILTON, CORNER GAS ANIMATED, LITTLEST PET SHOP, BEAT BUGS & THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH. When let loose out of the recording booth Brian is a MEGA movie fan, a stage loving theatre geek, and a full on Canadian hockey nut!!
JESSIE FLOWERMichaela Jill Murphy (aka Jessie Flower) is mainly known for her voiceover work as Toph in Avatar: The Last Airbender, among other roles such as Chaca in The Emperor’s New School and Kronk’s New Groove, and various voices in Finding Nemo, Meet the Robinsons, and more. She is currently living in New York pursuing the performing arts, and enjoys the recording studio as much as the stage or the screen. You can find her on Instagram @michaelamostly, or on her Facebook page Michaela Jill Murphy.
ADAM GIBBSAdam Gibbs is a Houston-based actor primarily of the stage, voice, and screen. Voice credits include: Haikyuu!! (Sugawara), Parasyte: The Maxim (Shinichi), My Hero Academia (Natsuo Todorki), Saint Seyai(Phoenix Ikki), Tokyo Ghoul:re (Kuki Urie), Grave of the Fireflies (Seita), Devils’ Line (Anzai), SNAFU(Hachiman), and many more. He is an avid woodworker, cook, and instrumentalist, but mostly a proud Dad of two amazing daughters. For more information visit www.iamadamgibbs.com.
OLIVIA HACKActress Olivia Hack got her break playing adorably lispy Cindy in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. She made her film debut in Star Trek: Generations, playing the daughter of Patrick Stewarts Captain Picard.A native of Los Angles, she started out in commercials at the age of four. These days, she is best known for providing the voice of iconic characters like Rhonda Wellington Lloyd in Nickelodeon’s classic, Hey Arnold!, Bratz as Chloe, and Nickelodeons hugely successful Avatar: The Last Airbender as Ty Lee, young Jedi Katooni in The Clone Wars, Qi’ra in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, as well as numerous other video games, animation, and television appearances.When Olivia isn’t working, you can find her anywhere from the shores of Easter Island, to the sky scrapers of Hong Kong, embracing her passion for travel and exploration.
ALESSANDRO JULIANIAlessandro Juliani is a Canadian actor and singer. He is notable for playing the roles of Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on the Sci-Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica, Emil Hamilton in Smallville, Jacapo Sinclair on The CW series The 100, and Dr. Cerberus on the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is also known for voicing the character L in the English version of the anime series Death Note and its live action films, as well as several other animation projects. Juliani provided the voice of Aaron Fox on Nexo Knights. He was the voice of Pit/Kid Icarus in the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon series, and offered his voice in many other cartoons and anime including Ranma ½ (as Toma), X-Men: Evolution (as Gambit), the three My Scene films (in the role of River) and two of the Bionicle films (as Toa Vakama). He played the voice of Nightscream in Beast Machines, he was also the voice of Julian in Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, a Barbie movie based on the Mark Twain story The Prince and the Pauper, in which he also performed his own singing; he also voiced the merman prince Nalu in Barbie: Fairytopia and Barbie: Mermaidia, and most recently did both the speaking and singing role of Prince Antonio in Barbie as the Island Princess. He was also in the movie Barbie Mariposa as “Prince Carlos” and My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie as River. He also voices the character Koji in the English version of Ōban Star-Racers.
JENNIE KWANJennie Kwan, a native Angelino, started performing at the age of 11 years old in the performing troupe, “Kids of the Century.” Audiences first recognized Jennie when she played the lead role of “Kim” in the first National Touring Company of “Miss Saigon” having landed the coveted role after producer Cameron Mackintosh conducted a worldwide search.Jennie was then introduced to television as series regular, Samantha Woo, the wacky singing sensation on NBC-TV’s situation comedy, “California Dreams” which aired for five successful seasons and then onto world-wide syndication. Some of Jennie’s other television credits include New Girl, Anger Management, and The Nanny. Some film credits include “Promoted”, “Entourage”, and “Trojan War.”For two years Jennie traveled with “Faces of America,” a one-person show regarding diversity and tolerance in America. She was an original cast member of “Bare, the Musical” and had a short stint in “Jewtopia” both shows having successful runs on Off Broadway.Jennie toured the United States with the Broadway Tony Award Winning Musical, First National Tour of “Avenue Q” getting the chance to play the role of “Christmas Eve.” As well as becoming a puppeteer and playing the role of “Mrs. T”, “Bears” and Others.”Jennie was a proud member of Hollywood Record’s vocal group, “Nobody’s Angel” who earned a Gold record for performing two songs on the “Princess Diaries” soundtrack and was a co-creator for the pilot, “Nobody’s Angel” television network ABC Family. And Disney lovers have been fortunate to see Jennie ride the magic carpet as “Jasmine” in Disney’s musical spectacular “Aladdin.”Many may also know Jennie through her vast voice over work. She lends her voice to the character, Suki, on Nickelodeon’s hit animated series “Avatar: The Last Air Bender,” As well as Thirteen/ “Scissor Seven”, Mayuko Nise / “High Rise Invasion”, Aqua Current/ “Accel World”, Kakushi and Innosuke’s Mother/”Demon Slayer”, Sakuya/”Eureka Seven”, Tsukuyo Amane/”Magia Record”, Sonoko Suzuki/”Case Closed: Episode One-The Great Detective Turned Small”, Ayako Mitsuzuri and Otoko Hotaruzuka/”Fate Stay Night”, Soatoko Hojo/”When They Cry”, Nori Sakurada/”Rozen Maiden”. As well as Jubilee/MARVEL Super War: Jubilee Build and Power Core, Aina/”.hack//G.U.: Last Recode”, Eunice/”Rune Factory: Frontier”. And these are just to name a few!For more info on Jennie Kwan please visit www.JennieKwan.com or IMDB.
CRICKET LEIGHCricket Leigh was born in Michigan, and raised in Chicago. There she studied with Byrne & Joyce Piven extensively, working at Theatres such as The Goodman: The Winter’s Tale, A Christmas Carol; The Chicago Lyric Opera: The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe; Interplay Theatre: Les Liaisons Dangereuses …She then went on to NYU’s Stella Adler Conservatory, performing in: The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, & Durang’s Titanic… After graduation, she was chosen to go to the Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah, performing as Thea under Michael Mayer in the Original Workshop Production of Spring Awakening…She then moved to Los Angeles and began studying with The Groundlings. She began writing, producing & performing her one-woman show Constantly Distracted, where she played eight characters based on growing up her Grannie’s basement in Battle Creek, MI. The show was sold out at all five mountings of it from 2004-2008 in LA. She then wrote and starred in a two-person show about real-life hippie-rock poster child Janis Joplin, called Confetti Bayou: The Last Interview of Janis Joplin, which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Fest…In film, she starred in 2007’s Indie cult hit The Boys & Girls Guide To Getting Down, now streaming as well as many short films…Cricket is an accomplished Voice-Over Artist as well. She began voicing Mai in Avatar: The Last Airbender for 3 seasons on Nickelodeon, and her raspy voice can be heard on radio spots and commercials. Cricket voiced Tangier in Red Faction 2, Basil in Lost Planet and many more. Cricket got her Masters in Social Work in 2016 and currently works as Director of mental health for BLND Health where she helps people all over the US, and she can often be seen at Comic-Cons all over the US and Canada to connect to her many fans.
DAVID MATRANGADavid Matranga is an American voice actor who works primarily for English dubbed anime for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Matranga is best known as the voice of Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia, Hideki Hinata from Angel Beats, Genjo Sanzo from Saiyuki, Orphen from Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, 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.
GEORGE NEWBERNGeorge Newbern is an American actor and voice actor, best known for his roles as Charlie in ABC show Scandal and Bryan MacKenzie in Father of the Bride (1991) and its sequel Father of the Bride Part II as well as Danny (The Yeti) in Friends and his recurring role as Julia’s son Payne in Designing Women. He is also known for providing the voices of Superman in many pieces of DC Comics media (most notably the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series and the Injustice video game series), and Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy series and the Kingdom Hearts series.
JAMES SIEJames Sie has been creating voices for animation since 1999, when a chance audition landed him the title role in Jackie Chan Adventures. Since then he has worked steadily, supplying voices for television, movies and games. Recent projects include: Stillwater (title role); Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny (Bunnidharma & Sun Wukong); How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Chaghati Khan); Final Fantasy VII Remake (Professor Hojo) and Ghost of Tsushima (populating the world). He’s been able to play kung fu heroes in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Monkey) and Quest of the Dragon (Bruce Lee) two superheroes for the DC universe (Wind Dragon and the Atom), Playstation’s Uncharted series (Eddie Raja), King of the Hill (multiple roles), and has gained eternal fame as the Cabbage Merchant in Avatar: The Last Airbender.James is the author of two novels, the upcoming All Kinds of Other (May 2021, HarperCollins) and Still Life Las Vegas (2015, St. Martins Press), for which he recorded the audiobook. As an audiobook narrator, he has also narrated A Change of Hate by Joe Broadmeadow, and many, many titles as a volunteer for Learning Ally, a non-profit that provides audiobooks for the reading challenged.Full list of credits at IMDB.
BRAD SWAILEBrad Swaile is a Canadian voice actor. His major roles include Light Yagami in Death Note, Rock in Black Lagoon, and Nightcrawler in X-Men: Evolution. In the 1990s, he voiced Mousse in Ranma ½ and Teen Gohan in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z. He has also voiced multiple roles in the Mobile Suit Gundam series, including Amuro Ray of Mobile Suit Gundam, Quatre Raberba Winner of Gundam Wing, Dearka Elsman of Gundam SEED, Auel Neider of Gundam SEED Destiny and Setsuna F. Seiei of Gundam 00. In video games, he voices Jin Kazama in Street Fighter X Tekken.
JEN TAYLORJEN TAYLOR is a stage, television, and voice actress best known as the voices of Cortana and Dr. Halsey in the Halo video game series (as well as Microsoft’s operating system). She also voices Cortana in the highly acclaimed Halo television series. Jen has voiced Princess Peach and Toad in Mario Brother’s games, Zoey in Left 4 Dead, Lina, Medusa, Puck and Windranger in Dota 2, Atomic Wonder Woman in Infinite Crisis and a myriad of other characters in many other games. She also voices Salem in the animated series, RWBY. Jen voices radio, tv commercials, audiobooks and appeared in Penny Arcade’s online web series, AUTOMATA, and Netflix’s EVERYTHING SUCKS. 
AUSTIN TINDLEAustin has since voiced hundreds of characters in English dubbed anime including: Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul), Marco Bodt (Attack on Titan), Karma Akabane (Assassination Classroom), Pele Popolo (Plunderer), Monoma (My Hero Academia), Ishigami (Kaguya-sama), Subaru (My Roommate is a Cat), Leek (Dragonball Super: Broly), Sour/Dyrasem (Dragonball Super), Goro (Darling in the Franxx) Avilio Bruno (91 Days), Seborga (Hetalia), Raspberry (Dragon Ball Z), Accelerator (A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun), and Ichirohiko (The Boy and the Beast). He voices lead roles in many other shows including: Is This a Zombie, Guilty Crown, D-Frag, Gonna Be The Twin-Tail, Prince Of Stride, Prison School, Tamo No-Rin, ACCA, Maria the Virgin Witch, Snow White with the Red Hair, Trickster, Shangri-La, Cross Ange, My Love Story, and the movie Human Lost. You can also hear him in video games such as: Borderlands 3, Smite, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 1 and 2.
SARAH WIEDENHEFTSarah Wiedenheft is a Danish/American voice actor and singer. She developed a passion for acting and singing during high school where she participated in theater, musicals, and show choir. From there on, she decided to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. She got her start at 19 years old and has since lent her voice to numerous anime dubs, original animations, and video games. Some of her most notable roles include: Power from Chainsaw Man, Tohru in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Grand Zeno in Dragon Ball S, Saiko in Tokyo Ghoul:re, Takagi in Teasing Master Takagi-san, Charmy in Black Clover, Suika in Dr. Stone, Pony in My Hero Academia, Alas Ramus in Devil is a Part-Timer, Lily in Zombieland Saga, Teresa in Tada Never Falls In Love, and Phosphophyllite in Land of The Lustrous.She has also lent her voice in video games such as: Cherry Blossom Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom, Sigrid in ANNO Mutationem, Female Fanatic 1 and Prisa in Borderlands 3, Cultist Female in Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, Celeste in Huniepop, Lailani in HunieCam Studio, Nissa in Pulong Insanity, Maria in Umineko: When They Cry, and Professor Mona in DreadOut 2.
 
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDERDANTE BASCO – ZukoGREY DELISLE – AzulaJACK DE SENA – SokkaJESSIE FLOWER – TophGREG BALDWIN – Uncle IrohJENNIE KWAN – SukiOLIVIA HACK – Ty LeeCRICKET LEIGH – MaiJAMES SIE – Cabbage Merchant
 
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Final Updates

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Sac Pin Expo / Sac Toy Con Saturday 

Over 100 tables of vendors from all over the state

June 4th-5th 10-4 pm each day

Admission $10 Saturday only 

Admission $10 Sunday Only

Full weekend Admission $15 Both Days 

Special Guests

Neil Ross Appearing Sunday June 5th only

Terry McGovern Appearing June 4th and 5th

Dan Brereton Appearing Sunday only

Sean Long Appearing Saturday June 4th only

Scott Zillner Appearing June 4th and 5th

Cancelled Jay Sullivan

Event Exclusives

Flag Point Pinn $10

Night Force Patch $5

Night Force Hat $20

Ninja Pins $10 each

Black Major Officer $20

Guest Announcement Terry McGovern

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Terry McGovern is an American actor, television broadcaster, radio personality and acting instructor. He is best known as the original voice of Disney character Launchpad McQuack from DuckTales and spin-off Darkwing Duck. he was also elected into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame as a member of its Class of 2008. Terry was the voice of the Sandtrooper in Star Wars A New Hope and On transformers as the Stunticon Wildrider.

Terry will be at the event both days June 4th and 5th