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  • Brina Palencia

    Brina Palencia is an actress working in Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA. She’s voiced… a lot of stuff. Some of her anime highlights include: Shirayuki in Snow White With the Red Hair, Touka in Tokyo Ghoul, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Holo in Spice and Wolf, Chopper in One Piece, Varona in Durarara!! x2, Juvia in Fairy Tail, Yuno in Future Diary, Natsuki in Summer Wars, Chibitalia in Hetalia, Rei in Evangelion 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, Tamama in Sgt. Frog, Hideyoshi in Baka and Test, the list goes on for a very long time…

    On camera she is best known as Sophia from the CW series Star-Crossed, Ana on Season 4 of The Walking Dead, Jody Evans on Season 7 of Castle, and Kayla Bates in the web series The Troubadoors.

  • Chris Sabat

    Christopher R. Sabat has lived on a diet of Senzu Beans for nearly 15 years. As the Voice Director for Dragonaball Z, as well as the voice actor behind Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Mr. Popo, Korin, Burter, Shenron, Zarbon, Guru, and countless others, you could say he is the “voice” of Dragonball Z.

    Chris has lent his voice to countless other roles including: Alex Luis Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist), Roronoa Zoro (One Piece), Kyoma (Dimension W), Batou (the Ghost In the Shell: Arise series).

    Christopher also owns Okratron 5000, The largest video game voiceover production facility in the south, based in Dallas, Teaxs.

  • Colleen Clinkenbeard

    Colleen Clinkenbeard - Colleen Clinkenbeard is a voice actor and director whose work can be heard in over 100 anime and video game titles. Best known for playing the English voices of Gohan and Android 18 in Dragonball Z Kai, Monkey D Luffy in One Piece, Erza Scarlett in Fairy Tail and Riza Hawkeye in Fullmetal Alchemist. Colleen can also be heard in the video games Borderlands I and II as Lilith, Patricia Tannis and Captain Scarlett. Two of her favorite roles include Hana in Wolf Children, and Momiji in Good Luck Girl.

    As a director, Fullmetal Alchemist is what put her on the map; but she’s also worked on such projects as Black Butler, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, and Steins;Gate.

  • Eric Vale

    Eric Vale has voiced such characters as Trunks in Dragon Ball Z, Sanji in One Piece, Yuki in Fruits Basket, and Kymblee in Fullmetal Alchemist. 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 in addition to writing other screenplays and anime programs. He also directs for film and stage. Sounds like a pretty busy guy, 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 and screams “Get off my lawn!” at random.

  • Ian Sinclair

    Recently announced as the voice of Gija in Yona of the Dawn, Yousuke in Death Parade, and Sousuke in Free! Eternal Summer, Ian Sinclair has been voice acting since he was a sophomore in college, where he studied theatre. Since then he’s been working in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as a professional actor in a multitude of arenas. He’s performed on stage, on camera, and, of course, behind the mic.

    A few of Ian’s more popular roles include Dandy in Space Dandy, Brook in One Piece, Toriko in Toriko, Nile Dok in Attack on Titan, Whiis in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Ryner Lute in Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Bardroy in Black Butler, Romano in Hetalia, and many more.

  • John Swasey

    John started down the road of anime in 1997, when he landed his first role in Golden Boy from ADV Films.  Since then, John has gone on to voice hundreds shows and characters with  FUNimation, ADV Films, Switchblade Films, Sentai Films, Gearbox, Seraphim Digital and Illumitoons just to name a few.  John’s wife once quipped that there are certain actors who might be the “Brad Pitts” of anime but John is the “Kevin Bacon” of anime.

    In 2004, John jumped to the other side of the “mic” to direct.  Some of the shows he has directed include Welcome to the N.H.K.,AirGear, Wandaba Style, St. Seiya, Shadow Skill, E’s Otherwise, Michel, Jinki Extend  and Shinobi.

  • Kevin Bolk

    Kevin Bolk (K-Bo to his fans) is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and proud alumnus of Awesome University (his favorite imaginary alma mater). Although he’s done work for Nickelodeon, Tokyopop, Udon Entertainment, Blind Ferret Entertainment, and Voices For, he’s best known for his parody webcomics “It Sucks to be Weegie” and “Ensign Sue Must Die!” (with Clare Moseley) as part of Interrobang Studios’ Pot Luck Comics as well as “I’m My Own Mascot”, and the fantasy send-up, Trigger Star.

    All of these delightful deviations can be found at the Interrobang Studios website (www.interrobangstudios.com). BOOKMARK OR PERISH! He likes cookies.

  • Kieran Strange

    He’s been compared to Tony Stark, Ramona Flowers, Hawkeye, and Tank Girl! – but IRL, he’s Kieran Strange, a quirky and powerful young artist blending pop sensibilities, dynamic guitars, and high-energy live shows into his own brand of British pop-punk.

    Standing firmly as a voice for the different and discarded, Kieran came out publicly as genderfluid in 2014 with the release of the “Tear Down The Wall” music video, and changed his pronouns from “she” to “he” in the summer of 2016. These days, he always makes sure he is open, outspoken, and passionate in his beliefs.

  • Lisa Ortiz

    Lisa Ortiz’s career as a voice over artist began under the shroud of an attempted auto larceny gone awry. Luckily for her, and for her sibling the perpetrator in question, the car battery died. (No seriously, my brother tried to steal my car. That’s how I got into anime. Just ask me. I’ll tell you.).

    Most famous for her role as Lina Inverse, and Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog, She began her career as the high elf Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War. Since then she has gone on to record dozens of anime, series, audiobooks, video games, and films as well as eventually moving behind the microphone as a Producer, Director and Adapter.

  • Lydia Mackay

    Lydia Mackay has been a successful Theatre Artist for the last 20 years. Some of her favorite roles include Mistress Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Kate (The Taming of the Shrew), Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire), Arkadina (The Seagull), Woman (The Blue Room). She’s received ‘Best Actress’ nods from both the Dallas Observer and the DFW Critics Forum.

    Lydia’s voice-over credits include Boa Hancock (One Piece), Madame Red (Black Butler), Lady Caterina Sforza (Trinity Blood), Trisha Elric/Sloth (Full Metal Alchemist), and Sephiria Arks (Black Cat) all for Funimation Entertainment & the Cartoon Network.

  • Michael Sinterniklaas

    Michael Sinterniklaas is a veteran of the anime industry and has worked as a ADR Director, actor, voice actor, script writer, sound engineer, mixer and producer.

    In 2000, Michael founded NYAV Post, a bicoastal recording studio that has worked on over 400 anime and non-anime titles.

    Michael is a prolific actor and has voiced a countless roles in anime such as Dagger in Black Butler: Book of Circus, Netherlands in Hetalia, Xellos in Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R, Gasud in Jormungand, and Jessie’s Seviper / Joshua / Kennedy in Pokémon, Sora and Utakata in Naruto, and many more!

  • Mike McFarland

    Mike got his start in anime as one of the first voice actors in Texas to be hired by FUNimation Entertainment, and has since moved on to become a Director, Script Writer, and Line Producer for numerous anime series. Notable roles include Master Roshi and Yajirobe in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Baby and Baby-Vegeta in Dragon Ball GT, Jean Kirstein in Attack on Titan, Goemonin Lupin The Third (Movie Specials), and many others.

    Mike is also an accomplished improv comedian, musician, and has appeared in numerous commercials and independent films, including The Rage Within, House Of The Generals, Placebo, and the award-winning Shtickmen.

  • No Need for Bushido

    Alex Kolesar - co-creator and artist for the webcomic No Need for Bushido. Talented and brilliant, Alex has shown a gift for perfection and adeptness at all he has set out to accomplish. Along with being a gallant, magnanimous, and humble comic creator, Alex is also a full time artist for the online game Flight Rising.

    Joe Kovell - co-creator, writer and website guru for the obscure and incomprehensible webcomic No Need for Bushido! His fever-dream inspired writing style is a delight to readers around the world and a torment to the artist tasked with bringing them to life. You may recognize Joe’s voice acting talents from his previous work recording voicemail messages and calling customer support.

  • Patrick Seitz

    Patrick’s anime roles include Franky in One Piece, Sky High in Tiger & Bunny, Germany in Hetalia, Agil in Sword Art Online, Senji inDeadman Wonderland, Simon in Durarara, Laxus in Fairy Tail, Sloth in FMA: Brotherhood.

    On the gaming side of the ledger, you can hear Patrick as Ragna in the BlazBlue franchise, Lucian, Kog’Maw, and Renekton in League of Legends, Cervantes in SoulCalibur V, to name just a few.

    His directing credits include Monster, State of Decay, and Girls Bravo, the latter of which he also got to adapt.

  • Paul St. Peter

    Paul St. Peter is a voice actor from Los Angeles whose many anime’ and video game credits include Kingdom Hearts  as Xemnas, Naruto as Nine Tail Fox, ROBOTECH as Zor Prime, Bleach as Yammy, World of Warcraft  as Boden The Imposing, Dynasty Warriors I­-IV  as Yuan Shao, Digimon as Kokomon, Zetman as Sugito, Majin as Majin, and Resident Evil 5 as Swahili Zombie.

    Paul has comical voices too, from Cowboy Bebop as Punch to Digimon Warriors as Wormmon.

  • Professor Shyguy

    Professor Shyguy’s music can be best described as; high energy, chiptune-electro-rocking, 8-bit, epically vocalized, highly danceable, theatrical nerd-pop. Singing 50% about video games and the other 50% is anything from Space/Time to English Language gymnastics. He has just released his 3rd album of original music in the form of a Pop-Opera. His performance consists of singing, playing guitar, keyboards, and drums, sometimes three of those things at the same time.

  • Richard Epcar

    Richard Epcar – is one of the hardest working men in show business, having voiced over 500 characters in Games, Animation and Anime. Best known as the voice of Batou in Ghost in the Shell, The Joker in several Batman games including Injustice: Gods Among Us (Fighting Game of the Year!) Raiden in Mortal Kombat X and Ansem in Kingdom Hearts.

    Voted one of the Top 20 Video Game Voice Actors of all Time and Top 20 Anime Actors of all time by IMDB! He’s directing and voicing the all new Lupin III!

  • Samurai Dan and Jillian

    Dan Coglan, a.k.a. “Samurai Dan” and his wife, Jillian are the acknowledged masters of marital… er, MARTIAL mayhem.  This dynamic duo travels the civilized portions of the U.S., bringing their unique show to curious and horrified audiences alike.

    Due to a supreme lack of filter, Dan also performs standup comedy, and lives to embarrass his wife onstage, in censored and uncensored settings.

    Dan is finishing his third horror novel, and offers insights into the creative process with panels for the aspiring writer as well.

  • 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.

  • Tara Sands

    Tara’s voice can be heard on hundreds of radio and TV commercials, audiobooks, video games, anime and animation. She played the roles of Bulbasaur, Richie, Sammy, Oddish, Tori, Bugsy, Cissy and Jasmine (as well as tons of other characters) in “Pokemon,” Mokuba Kaiba in “Yugioh,” Kaya in “One Piece,” Angel and Tyler in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” Anna in “Shaman King,” and lots more.

    2 years (over 100 episodes!), Tara was the on-camera host of Cartoon Network’s weekly Friday night lineup, appropriately titled “Fridays.” Where she interviewed dozens of celebrities and had more on-camera food fights than she cares to remember.