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Actor & Anime Voiceover Guests
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Phil Lamarr
A Los Angeles native, Phil is an alumnus of Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of MAD TV, “Hermes” on FUTURAMA, "Marvin" in PULP FICTION, “Green Lantern” on JUSTICE LEAGUE and as the voice of SAMURAI JACK. For over 30 years, Phil has thrilled audiences with his work on camera and behind the mic on TV shows such as STATIC SHOCK, FAMILY GUY, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, THE FLASH, SUPERGIRL, GET SHORTY, LUCIFER, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and VEEP; feature films like MADAGASCAR 2, INCREDIBLES 2, and THE LION KING (2019) and video games including JAK & DAXTER, FORTNITE, SHADOW OF MORDOR, and the METAL GEAR SOLID, INJUSTICE and MORTAL KOMBAT series. His stage work includes productions with The Actor’s Gang, South Coast Repertory, Sacred Fools Theatre, and Phil also portrayed “Cowboy Curtis” in "The Pee-wee Herman Show" both on at The Stephen Sondheim
Theatre on Broadway and in the Emmy-nominated HBO special. Currently, in addition to writing and producing the animated series "GOBLINS," (goblinsanimated.com), Phil is performing monthly with "THE BLACK VERSION" (theblackversion.com), appearing in Cartoon Network’s CRAIG OF THE CREEK, Netflix’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: REVELATION and THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT.

Katelyn Barr
Katelyn Barr has been working in anime and video games since 2013. Her professional career began with
Liliana in Log Horizon and has spanned a wide variety of popular series ever since. Currently, Katelyn is best known as the voice of Ryuko “Ryukyu” Tatsuma in My Hero Academia, Ophiuchus Shaina in Saint Seiya, Yami/Golden Darkness and Tearju Lunatique in To Love Ru, Baby 5 in One Piece, and Nikki Hanada in Dr. Stone. Some personal favorite roles of hers are Rim (The Dungeon of Black Company), Hina Hikawa (BanG Dream!), Shoukaku (Azur Lane), Ren Soma (Fruits Basket), Natsumi (Date-A-Live), and Imu (Senran Kagura). In video games, she can be heard as Niyon from the Granblue Fantasy x Shadowverse universe, Sylma in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Melinda and various others in Borderlands 3, and several unlockable skins in SMITE. Katelyn has also worked extensively as a scriptwriter for English dubs, with over 400 episodes of anime adapted to date. Some of the titles on her résumé include Black Clover, Akame ga KILL!, Haikyu!!, and many more. Katelyn currently resides in Dallas, TX where she works full-time for FUNimation, records projects from her home studio, plays drums, and collects Halloween décor.

Bryson Baugus
Bryson Baugus is a voice actor, singer, and stage actor from Houston, Texas. He is known for his work as Pegasus Seiya in Saint Seiya (2019 CGI reboot & 1986 Netflix dub); Falco Grice in Attack on Titan; Shoyo Hinata in Haikyu!!; Bell Cranel in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?; Mitsuru in Darling in the FranXX; Takumi Aldini in Food Wars; and many others. For his full list of roles, check out BrysonBaugus.com In his free time, Bryson also likes to play video games live on Twitch (twitch.tv/baugusbryson) and create videos for YouTube (youtube.com/baugusbryson). If you would like to keep up with what’s going on with Bryson, give him a Follow on Twitter (@baugusbryson)!

Sarah Wiedenheft
Sarah Wiedenheft is a voice actor who has provided her voice for anime, such as: Lord Zeno from Dragon Ball Super, Tohru from Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Hina from Plunderer, Suika from Dr. Stone, Charmy from Black Clover, Saiko from Tokyo Ghoul:re, Lily from Zombieland Saga, Phos from Land of the Lustrous, Takagi from Karakai Jozu No Takagi-san, Aika from Shomin Sample, Claiomh from Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Non from Keijo!!!!!!!!, Teresa from Tada Never Falls in Love, Pony from My Hero Academia, Azusa from Orange, Kiriha from Tsugumomo, Shera from How NOT To Summon A Demon Lord, Yuki from Interviews With Monster Girls, and Michella from Blood Blockade Battlefront. She has also lent her voice in games, such as: Female Fanatic and Prisa in Borderlands 3, Celeste in Huniepop, Lailani in HunieCam Studio, Nissa in Pulong Insanity, Maria in Umineko: When They Cry, and Professor Mona in DreadOut 2.

Olivia Hack
Actress Olivia Hack got her break playing adorably 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 Stewart's Captain Picard.
Olivia is best known for providing the voice of iconic characters like Rhonda Wellington Lloyd in Nickelodeon's classic, Hey Arnold!, Bratz as Chloe, and Nickelodeon's hugely successful Avatar: The Last Airbender as Ty Lee, young Jedi Katooni in The Clone Wars, as well as numerous other video games, animation, and television appearances.

Gary Anthony Sturgis
Gary Anthony Sturgis is best known for his portrayal of the villains in two major Tyler Perry films (Diary of a Mad Black Woman & Daddy's Little Girls). Gary also co-starred opposite sides with Bernie Mac & Terrance Howard in the movie "Pride". As a professional voice actor, Gary has voiced the shadow villain Ebon in the Kids WB series "Static Shock" alongside Phil Lamarr. He then went on to voice The Phantom Virus in "Scooby Doo & The Cyber Chase". In video games Gary has voiced several iconic Marvel & DC heroes like The Bronze Tiger & Luke Cage. Gary still finds himself voice acting and live acting these days as a writer, producer, actor and director.

Carrie Savage
Carrie Anne Savage is an anime voice actress. Some of her notable anime roles include Rakka in Haibane Renmei, Solty Revant in SoltyRei, the Mokonas in xxxHolic and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Miu Fūrinji on Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Hakufu Sonsaku in Ikki Tousen, Kaede Fuyou in Shuffle!, Nancy in R.O.D The TV, Penny in Crayon Shin-chan and Asta in Trinity Blood.

Jeannie Tirado
Jeannie Tirado is an LA-based voice actor, known for voicing Kujou Sara in Genshin Impact, Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Android 21 in Dragon Ball FighterZ, Rose Winters in Resident Evil: Village, Orphea in Heroes of the Storm, Norman in The Promised Neverland, Neenah on the newest Saints Row, Fana in Black Clover, Koala in One Piece, Pan in Dragon Ball Super, Zera in Fairy Tail, and Katarina Claes in My Life as a Villainess amongst many more titles!
Raised in Orlando, Florida and classically trained in piano and voice, Jeannie got her start in the studio recording album vocals for artists— which turned into commercial voice over— which turned into anime and video game craziness!
She is now represented in LA, and can currently be heard in national tv and radio commercials, on Disney XD, and even in the air as the pilots assist voice for a private British air charter! Jeannie can’t wait to announce what more madness she’s gotten her voice into (announcements coming soon!) but is now having an absolute blast living her dream!

Jack De Sena
Jack DeSena is an American screen and voice actor. He is best known for his work on the sketch comedy series All That, having joined the show's cast at the start of its 7th season in 2001 (he tied with Logan Lerman for the 2005 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actor for All That). His family moved to Irvine, California in 1999 and he attended school there. He was a very active member of the international ComedySportz troupe (a comic improvisation team that participates in games as seen on Whose Line is it Anyway?). He also did voice work for the character of Sokka on the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Recently DeSena has been working on the online mockumentary web series Dorm Life which is a 2008 Webby Honoree for Best Writing and Comedy: Individual Short or Episode.

Jennie Kwan
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. Some of Jennie's other television credits include The Nanny, Family Matters, Beverly Hills 90210 and Oliver Stone's mini series "Wild Palms." Film credits include "Trojan War"
Not being a stranger to the music world, Jennie was a proud member of Hollywood Record's vocal group, "Nobody's Angel" who earned their first gold record for performing two songs on the "Princess Diaries" soundtrack in 2002 and was a creator for the pilot, "Nobody's Angel" for the television network ABC Family.
She lends her voice to the character, Suki, on Nickelodeon's hit animated series "Avatar: The Last Air Bender," as well as all video games for the series. Jennie has also voiced numerous anime and video games like Capcom's Street Fighter 6 voicing Chun-LI.
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Michaela Jill Murphy
Michaela Jill Murphy (aka Jessie Flower) is an American actress, singer, and writer often known for her voice work as Toph Beifong in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, Chaca in Disney’s The Emperor’s New School, and many others. She grew up acting in Los Angeles, then went on to graduate in Theater and Film with a concentration in play/screen writing from Yale University. She recently created her own line of ATLA inspired apparel and merchandise on her site titled Bandit Basics, premiered her first short film, Stalgia, as writer/producer, and voiced a villain named Katherine Zephyr in the audio series The Realm Tree. Currently, she is still auditioning for VO and brushing up on her writing chops while voicing the English dub of special rank angel Nasse in the anime Platinum End which is streaming on Funimation and Crunchyroll! Follow her on Instagram @michaelamostly
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Greg Ayres
Greg Ayres has been screaming into microphones for close to 22 years now! With over 376 credits to his name, he has managed to play a variety of characters that are almost as colorful as his hair. He is honored to return to his role of Son Goku this year in Saiyuki Reload Zeroin, having worked on the Saiyuki franchise for over 20 years. He can currently be heard as Yu Nishinoya in Haikyu, and as Chai in Shenmue The Animation on Adult swim. Some other recent roles include Chota Segawa in Alice in Borderland (OAV), Sho Utsumi in SSSSGridman, Frost in DragonBall Super, Geo in Sony Picture’s Starship Troopers : Traitor of Mars, Jiro in Concrete Revolutio, Ryuuou Edogawa in Doreiku, Koji Koda in My Hero Academia, and he even makes an appearance as Popuko in Pop Team Epic.
He is proud to be a part of the new “Pink Harvest” productions from Sentai Filmworks, in the roles of Izumi Sena in Lovestage, and Yabase in Hitorijime My Hero. Some other recent favorites include Nagisa Haruki in Free, and Free Eternal Summer, MonoKuma in Danganronpa, Clear in Dramatical Murder, Doug in Gangsta, Zenji Marui in Food Wars, Ganta Igarashi in Deadman Wonderland, Heihachi Hayashida in Samurai 7, and Kouichi Sakakibara in Another. Some of his all-time favorite roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Kaoru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club, Youhei Sunohara in Clannad, Yuki in The Wallflower, Leo in Ghost Stories, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Kaworu Nagisa in the Director’s Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tomoki Sakurai in Heaven’s Lost Property, and Negi Springfield in Negima.
Of all of his many roles, his favorite will always be the real life role of “Little Brother” to a guy with a big Sippy Cup, and an even bigger heart – who touched the world with his "Love and Laughter”.
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Gareth West
Gareth is an actor, model, and voice actor based out of Texas. He is known for such Anime roles as; Ittetsu Takeda in Haikyu, Seiya Takehaya in Tsurune, Kanichi Konishi in Food Wars, Haruka Shinozaki in My Girlfriend Is Shobitch, Lizard Misty in Saint Seiya, 2D in Golden Time, Akihiro Tsukaba in Chihayafuru, Tomoaki Yamagishi in O Maidens In Your Savage Season, and Dinkuron in Log Horizon. He is also currently playing the role of Jason Lee Scott the Red Power Ranger in the upcoming release Red Rising: A Power Rangers Fan Film. When not making anime voices or acting, Gareth enjoys basically anything nerdy under the sun. So whatever it is you are into, chances are you can come up and geek out. Because there is nothing he likes more than getting enthusiastic, and making new friends!

Jonathon Joss
Born and raised in San Antonio, Jonathan Joss has a long career spanning both stage and screen. A Theatre graduate of The Lady of the Lake University, Jonathan has been a household name for years thanks to his role as “JOHN REDCORN” on FOX’s beloved animated series King of the Hill. He is also best known as “KEN HOTATE” on Parks and Recreation, and “DENALI” in The Magnificent Seven.
Jonathan has also been a staple voice actor in the video game world with credits in video games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Days Gone, Red Dead Redemption, The Walking Dead, and Wasteland 3. His television work includes roles in Comanche Moon, Dead Man’s Walk, ER, Charmed, Justice League, Friday Night Lights, Walker Texas Ranger, Ray Donovan, and The Wild Thornberrys. Not one to shy away from the silver screen, Jonathan has had parts in films such as Christmas in the Clouds, True Grit, The Johnson Family Vacation, Pocahontas II, and Almost Heroes with the late Chris Farley. Jonathan has also started his very own brand of custom spice blends, “Redcorn’s King of the Grill: Seven Magnificent Spice Blends”.
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Howard Wang
Howard Wang is a voice actor, ADR director, and ADR script adapter. And an audio engineer. And also a video game developer. Howard has lent his voice to characters like Langa in SK8 the Infinity, Xie Lian in Heaven Official’s Blessing, Narciso Anastasia(Anasui) in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Shihai Kuroiro/Vantadark in My Hero Academia, Tsutomu Goshiki & Rintaro Suna in Haikyu!, Falkner in Pokémon Masters, Whitley Schnee in RWBY, Tsuneo Suzukawa in Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, Louis James Moriarty in Moriarty the Patriot, Pelleas in Fire Emblem Heroes, Tatsuya Himuro in Kuroko’s Basketball, Wakiya Murasaki in Beyblade Burst Surge, Hajime Kokonoi in Tokyo Revengers, Mojito and Pancéa in Dragon Ball Super, Kakushi Goto in Kakushigoto, and many more!
In terms of voice directing, Howard is the ADR director for the new dub of The Prince of Tennis series, and has assisted with titles like Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Gleipnir, Kemono Friends, and more. Writing wise, he’s adapted the scripts for various titles, such as Nichijou: My Ordinary Life.
As a professional video game developer with a degree in game design, Howard previously worked at Riot Games as the VO Audio Designer on VALORANT. When all of the things mentioned above aren’t keeping him busy, Howard enjoys cooking, mobile gacha games, and trying to get his cat to love him.

Susanna Malak
Bio coming soon!

The DiFilippo Triplets
Three American actors of Sicilian decent, the DiFilippo Triplets are best known in their roles in Power Rangers Zeo as the three personalities of the OG Gold Ranger, Trey of Triforia. They would also guest star on some of the biggest shows of the 90s including Boy Meets World, Step by Step as well as having roles in the film Major League: Back to the Minors.