Guests of Honor
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REBA BUHR
Reba Buhr is a seasoned voice actress specializing in anime, video games, animation, and audiobooks. Over the last decade she has voiced lead roles in several anime including Llenn in SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online, Myne in Ascendance of a Bookworm, and Nikaido in Dorohedoro. Other popular anime roles include Aoi Kanzaki in Demon Slayer, Riko Amanai in Jujutsu Kaisen, Ponzu in HunterxHunter, and Aphrodite in Record of Ragnarok.
Reba’s video game roles include Princess Ivy in Fire Emblem Engage, Mei Parry in Nancy Drew: Midnight in Salem, Princess Svana in Elder Scrolls Online, Misty in Pokemon Masters, Isabelle in Shadowverse, and Arashi Spring in Scarlet Nexus.
She is also well known as the voice of both Rose Lavillant and Juleka Couffaine from the hit animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. She played the Diagnostic Computer in the Netflix film Next Gen opposite John Krasinski and Charlyne Yi.
Other notable career highlights include hosting the Disney Channel show Disney 365, and on camera appearances on shows like ABC’s The Rookie, Peacock’s Killing It, and Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush.
Reba is an outspoken mental health advocate. Her book Get Thee to a Therapist and social media accounts by the same name exist to educate people about how to access mental health services, because mental health is health. You can find out more on Instagram @get.thee.to.a.therapist.
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ANTHONY GONZALEZ
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Anthony Gonzalez is an actor and musician who began performing at the age of 4. Most notably he voiced the lead role of ‘Miguel’ in Disney Pixar’s Oscar-winning animated feature COCO (2017), directed by Lee Unkrich, opposite Benjamin Brett and Gael García Bernal.
TODD HABERKORN
As a multi award winning actor behind the mic, on camera, and on stage- Todd Haberkorn has had the pleasure of working in a variety of mediums in the entertainment industry. The LA based actor has also served as voice director for projects ranging from anime and animation to video games and audio books with Netflix, Amazon, Podium Audio, Audible, Marvel, Saban Entertainment, and more.
On the actor side, you’ll recognize him as the fire eating dragon slayer, Natsu Dragneel, from the internationally known series: Fairy Tail in addition to Hikaru #OuranHighSchoolHostClub, Death The Kid #SoulEater, and Haru #Free. If video games are more your speed, Todd’s voice and likeness can be experienced in the Destiny franchise as The Drifter (bank those motes, people).
When he isn’t fighting digital monsters in video games or trying to save the day on film, Todd travels the U.S. and internationally making appearances at gnarly pop culture conventions as a guest to meet super cool fans and sign autographs.
Instagram: @official_habergram
TikTok: @habertokker
Twitter: @toddhaberkorn
MARIEVE HERINGTON
A 2x Emmy-nominated actor, Marieve Herington began her professional career at 9 years of age in Toronto, Canada where she was born and raised. Herington is best known for her roles as Betty on “How I Met Your Mother,” Winnie on “Good Luck Charlie,” and Tilly Green on 200+ episodes of Disney Channel’s “Big City Greens.” Her 1000+ credits in voiceover include “Steven Universe”, “Tiny Toons Looniversity”, “Ice Age”, and “Doc McStuffins”, videogames such as “Asgard’s Wrath”, “Final Fantasy” and “Dangan Ronpa” and hit anime series like “FLCL: Alternative” and “Love Live: School Idol Project.” In addition, she’s currently the female signature voice of the MeTVToons television network.
She’s also an award-winning filmmaker who has written, produced, directed and starred in over a dozen films and webisodes which have received recognition at Austin Film Festival and HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival, among others. In 2022, she took on voice directing “Big City Greens” and has directed over 60 episodes to date.
KATHLEEN HERLES
Kathleen Herles is an Peruvian-American Actress, born in New York, to immigrant parents from Lima, Peru. She began her career as a child actress, starring as the original voice of ‘Dora’, on Dora the Explorer (1997 -2008). She continued her role as ‘Dora’ on, Go, Diego Go! (2005). In lending her voice as the original Dora worldwide for over a decade, she can be seen and heard in academy award nominated films such as , ‘Room,’ starring Brie Larsen., and has made several appearances, as herself, on Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow.
Kathleen’s voice has been recognized as one of the most captivating and iconic bilingual voices on television. She has been recognized and nominated for several awards by the NAACP and many more.
Kathleen is honored to announce her return in the new reboot, DORA, as Mami, Dora’s mother. She is grateful for the enduring legacy of the show that marked her journey more than two decades ago.
Kathleen is thrilled to embark on a full-time career in voiceover, eagerly anticipating the possibilities that lie ahead!
MEGAN HOLLINGSHEAD
Megan Hollingshead has voiced 100’s of characters in animation and games. Her first role was Nurse Joy in the original English dub of Pokémon, followed quickly by Yu-Gi-Oh!’s original Mai Valentine. She is also well known as Rangiku in Bleach, Shizune (and Ton Ton) in Naruto, Re-L in Ergo Proxy, and Viletta Nu in Code Geass. Other memorable characters include Adiane in Gurren Lagann, Hilda in Eureka 7, Sala in Mars Daybreak, Gloria in Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Dr. Abigail Finn in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, twins (evil and not) Mion and Shion in When They Cry, Nemu in Bleach, Rose Marinade in Fighting Foodons, Kano in His and Hers Circumstances (watch the previews!) (oh wait — no! I mean don’t watch the previews!), Maharu and Ebi in Girls Bravo, Neneko in DearS, Captain Iruma in Ultraman Tiga, and Trixie in Ultimate Muscle. Other Pokémon roles include Cassidy, Whitney, and James’ mother as well as Diane in Pokémon 6: Jirachi Wish Maker and Annie in Pokémon 5: Heroes. In addition to Guild Wars’ smarty pants Glenna, Megan has voiced many games including Ylgr and Yune in the newly released Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Lenneth in Valkyrie Profile, Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Shion Kasugai in Akiba’s Space Trip: Undead and Undressed, Viola in Eternal Sonata, Edy Nelson in Valkyria Chronicles, Autarch Kayleth in Warhammer 40,000, The Third Kiki DeWynter in Saints Row, Five in Drakengard 3, and Battle Nun in Brutal Legend. She currently has projects in the works for Cup of Tea, Bang Zoom!, and Funimation.
BOB JOLES
A native of Glendora, CA, Bob began his VO career in Orlando in 1987. A local VO producer/talent, Bob Barnes, who helped show him the ropes during his early days in the booth. Later he got his first agent, Marge Woods, who helped him even more. The VO career path was opening up for Bob and the next move would be his return home to Los Angeles in February 1993.
Since his return to L.A., Bob has done VO work for Disney: Sneezy, Bagheera, Cogsworth, House of Mouse, Have A Laugh Cartoons, Sallah (Indiana Jones Adventure), The Conductor on the Disneyland Railroad and several other attractions at Disneyland, California Adventure, Walt Disney World and Tokyo DisneySea. Nickelodeon: SpongeBob (Man Ray), Planet Sheen (Mr. Nesmith), Danny Phantom (Frostbite), My Life As A Teenage Robot, Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Warner Bros: Duck Dodgers, Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond. Cartoon Network: Scooby Doo and the Witch’s Ghost (Jack), Clarence, Chowder (Mr. Fugu), Grim & Evil, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack, Time Squad, The Powerpuff Girls.
Bob is the voice of Bill Green (the dad) on Big City Greens for DISNEY Channel. It is the number one show on DISNEY Channel! They are currently wrapping up production on Season 3 of BCG and have just started voice recording a BCG Movie! And later in the Fall of 2022, recording will begin on Season 4.
Bob has also made two appearances in front of the camera. In Nov. 2000, Everybody Loves Raymond (The Sneeze) where he violently sneezes in Ray’s face in an airport restroom. April 2004, MONK (Mr. Monk Meets The Godfather) appearing as a lookout in a barbershop that launders mob money, laying in the barber’s chair with a high powered automatic weapon on his chest under the barber’s cape.
Bob is also a professional tuba player, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and music copyist/engraver.
MELA LEE
Mela 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 Cry
Additional 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.
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BRENT MUKAI
Brent Mukai is a voice actor from Pearl City Hawaii who works in video games, animation, anime and commercials. He’s been voice acting full time since 2017 and has 15 years of experience in acting, stand up, and improv comedy. In 2021 he won the Society of Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Anime Character – Best Male Voiceover for Ginji in the Funimation anime Full Dive. He’s also been in countless video games and anime like Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, Demon Slayer, One Piece, RAINCODE, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Fire Emblem, Attack on Titan and countless others.
TONY OLIVER
Tony Oliver is an American voice actor best known for voicing Rick Hunter from Robotech, Lancer from Fate/stay night, Minato Namikaze in Naruto, and Arsène Lupin III from Lupin the Third. He helped produce the live action shows Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and VR Troopers.
ARTEMIS PEBDANI
Artemis Pebdani has been at it for a minute. She received her BFA in Theatre from Southern Methodist University, continued her studies at The Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre and later at just about any improv/ sketch comedy house in Los Angeles you can name: The Groudlings, UCB, IO West, The Ruby and a bunch of others that mostly don’t exist anymore. If you recognize her voice, it’s very likely from playing Gramma Alice Green on Disney Channel’s Big City Greens, Gran on Hulu’s The Croods: Family Tree or Ensign Karavitus on Star Trek: Lower Decks. If you recognize her face, it’s most likely from playing Artemis on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Vice President Susan Ross on Scandal, or recurring roles on The Goldbergs, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Masters of Sex and other shows you love or at least have heard of. But she wishes what you know her from is Mother May I Dance With Mary Jane’s Fist?: A Lifetone Original Movie for Adult Swim that she co-wrote, produced and starred in. She recently made her off-Broadway debut in Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons, and she hopes to keep this adventure rolling to a stage or screen near you!
JONATHAN TODD ROSS
Jonathan Todd Ross has appeared in hundreds of roles in many animated shows, including One Piece (Kohza), Sonic X, GI Joe, and Winx Club. He achieved a childhood dream by entering the TMNT universe in multiple roles, but especially Casey’s Cousin Sid. Finally, he has his 8 year old’s admiration, now that she’s deeply into Pokemon and understands what it means that her dad is a voice actor on a whole bunch of episodes. She doesn’t care (yet) about his most notable role, that of Marik/Yami Marik on Yugioh, but she vaguely thinks it’s cool that he has some toys of his character.
Jonathan has appeared in numerous plays and TV shows, including playing “The Fonz” in productions of Happy Days: The Musical directed by creator Garry Marshall and meeting his wife in a kissing scene on Guiding Light. Jonathan has narrated over 400 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, self-help, YA, biography and memoir, children’s literature, business,and romance. He’s won an Audie Award (Restart by Gordon Korman), nominated for others (Trial of the Chicago 7, Clockwork Lives), received numerous YALSA and Earphone Awards (Swindle by Gordon Korman, Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger, and more), two Audiofile Books of the Year (Little Failure by Gary Shtyengart and American Midnight by Adam Hochschild). and made all of his middle school bullies regret every mean thing they ever said to him when he narrated Tom Brady’s The TB12 Method.
TARA SANDS
Tara Jayne Sands can be heard as over 50 characters in the original English Pokemon tv series including Bulbasaur, Richie, Jasmine, Oddish, and Tori. Some other roles include Biscuit in HunterXHunter, Mokuba in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kari in Digimon Adventure Tri, Anna in Shaman King, Curious in My Hero Academia, Momo and Utahime in Jujutsu Kaisen, Kombu Infinity in One Punch Man, Circe in Generator Rex, Young Jin in Anohana, Kippie in Glitter Force, Filia in Slayers, Summer in Barbie: Life in The Dreamhouse, Death 13/Mannish Boy in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Namida in Boruto, Sonia in Fire Emblem and lots more.
Tara has recorded over 250 audiobooks and for 2 years (over 100 episodes!) Tara was the on-camera host of Cartoon Network’s weekly Friday night lineup, appropriately titled “Fridays.” On “Fridays” Tara interviewed dozens of celebrities like Johnny Depp, George Lucas, Robin Williams, Charles Barkley and Daniel Radcliffe, and had more on-camera food fights than she cares to remember.
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STEVE STALEY
Steve has been a voice actor since 1994. Most notably as Neji in the long running anime Naruto as well as the character Toshiro Hitsugaya in the equally long running Bleach. And now reprising his role in the brand new Bleach: 1000 year blood war! As a dialogue director Steve has worked on some notable titles such as The Seven Deadly Sins, Misfit of Demon King Academy as well as the insanely popular Demon Slayer S1 and 2 as well the movie and video game. He is also a popular teacher and guest director.
JANET VARNEY
Janet Varney is an Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. She can be heard as the voice of Korra on “The Legend of Korra” on Netflix, where she can also be seen as Summer in the comedy series “Country Comfort.” On HULU, she fights dark forces starring opposite John C. McGinley on “Stan Against Evil” and appears as Becca on FXX’s “You’re the Worst.” Over on Apple TV, she recurs on “Platonic” opposite Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. In the voiceover world, she can be seen as Wonder Woman in “Injustice,” as Mera on “Harley Quinn” and as Vilya in “The Legend of Vox Machina.”
Janet also created, wrote, produced and starred in the critically-acclaimed IFC online series “Fortune Rookie” with James Roday, Fred Armisen and more. Onstage in improv-type-settings, Janet performs with Rachel Dratch, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Oscar Nunez and more in their improv supergroup Theme Park, and with Paul F. Tompkins, Eugene Cordero and Tawny Newsome as SponTourCo. Janet co-created/wrote/produced “Neil’s Puppet Dreams” starring Neil Patrick Harris. You can also find Janet on YouTube for Geek & Sundry’s “Escape!” which she co-wrote, produced and hosted. She also hosts/co-hosts three great podcasts: The JV Club with Janet Varney; Avatar: Braving The Elements; and Truth and Justice with Bob Ruff. She’s even the elusive 4th Host of Hey, Riddle Riddle!
She’s also Co-Founder/Creative Director of one of the largest and most acclaimed comedy festivals in North America, SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival, now in its 21st year.
DAVE WITTENBERG
Dave Wittenberg voices Kakashi Hatake in Naruto, Michael Lee in Witch Hunter Robin. Bash Johnson in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Franz’s singing voice in the Disney animated film Planes, The Vision in Marvel Heroes, and Time Baby in Gravity Falls. In video games, he voices Trigger Happy from the Skylanders series, Mad Doctor from Epic Mickey, and Buddy Alexander from Resident Evil: Damnation. Among the hundreds of other credits, he also voices Saito in Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045, Lang Rangler in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Teddie in Persona 4 and Kefka Palazzo in Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy.
He is also an adaptive scriptwriter for English dubs of anime whose work includes episodes of the Digimon television series. Wittenberg also narrates many documentaries and specials for the Travel Channel and the Food Network.
MICHAEL YURCHAK
Michael Yurchak is an award winning actor and voice talent. Perhaps best known for his role as the voices of Tobi and Obito in the hit anime series Naruto: Shippuden, Michael is a prolific voice and on-camera actor. Most recently, he appeared in and voiced roles in four feature films (Super Troopers 2, The Christmas Chronicles, Sam Sam: The Littlest Super Hero, and Tito and the Birds); seven television and animated shows (Tacoma FD, Naruto Shippuden, Sailor Moon, Bungo Stray Dogs, Twin Star Exorcists, Bakhi, History Sucked); an audiobook (D-Day: The Battle that Changed History); a video game (Ultimate Ninja Storm); and multiple commercials (IBM, Geico, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, DirecTV, AT&T, SEC TV). He also appeared on stage in productions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, True West, Rabbit Hole, Cattle King for a Day, and at the Ice House Comedy Festival.
As an academic, Michael earned his doctorate in Educational Theatre from NYU, and teaches at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio, Cal State LA, and Such A Voice Voiceover Training. He has taught and guest lectured at colleges and universities as well as conservatories and private studios all over the country and abroad including NYU, UCLA, Cal State Northridge, Vassar, Middlebury, Utah State, Rose Bruford, and many more.
You can listen for Michael as he reprises his role as the voice of Bjorn in The Christmas Chronicles 2 (Netflix), the nefarious Viper on Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra, Cooter on the hit web-series, Trailer Trash (A Lions Gate production for Hulu Entertainment), and the wild and crazy Tobi and his alter-ego, the dark and brooding Obito, on Naruto Shippuden (currently showing on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim). Michael has voiced over fifty books-on-tape, appeared in and voiced dozens of commercials, and was nominated for a New York News Emmy Award for his promo work on NY1.