Fri, Sat & Sun; August 29 - 31, 2008 at Sacramento's Scottish Rite Center
Crispin Freeman has been portraying characters in anime and video games for 10 years. He got his start playing Zelgadis Graywords in "The Slayers". Since then he's played such famous roles as Alucard in "Hellsing", Rude in "Final Fantasy: Advent Children", Prince Turnip in "Howl's Moving Castle", Tsume in "Wolf's Rain", Alan Gabriel in "The Big O", Duskmon/Koichi in "Digimon", Holland in "Eureka 7", Haji and Van Argeno in "Blood+", Amon in "Witch Hunter Robin", Alex Rowe in "Last Exile", and Togusa in "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex", "Innocence" and "Solid State Society" He's also directed and starred in "Scrapped Princess", "I, My, Me, Strawberry Eggs" and "Space Travellers".
In video games he's played the voice of Superman in "Justice League: Heroes", King Leonidas in "300", Winter Soldier and Dark Colossus in "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance", Albedo in the "Xenosaga" trilogy and Will Turner in "Kingdom Hearts II" and all the Pirates of the Caribbean games.
He's worked as a script adapter on the shows he's directed as well as for Pokemon, Witch Hunter Robin, Shamanic Princess, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Assemble Insert, Weather Report Girl and Boogie Pop Phantom. Crispin has acted theatrically on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theater and Off-Broadway at the Blue Light Theater and Irish Repertory Theater in New York. He has also performed at numerous regional theaters such as The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Alley Theater in Houston, TX and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
He originally hails from Chicago, Illinois and Livingston, Montana. He got his undergraduate degree from Williams College where he majored in Theater and minored in Computer Science. Afterwards he went to Columbia University's Graduate Theater School where he got his Masters of Fine Arts in Acting. He's watched anime since he was a child, growing up on Speed Racer, Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets and Robotech and is so happy to be working on animation as an adult. You can find out more about him on his website: www.crispinfreeman.com
Liam O’Brien is an actor, writer, and director involved in numerous facets of the world of animation and video games.
As an actor, he has worked in well over a hundred anime, video game, and original animation projects. Some of the more well known animated series he has lent his voice to include, WOLVERINE AND THE XMEN, NARUTO, AFRO SAMURAI, GHOST IN THE SHELL, PARANOIA AGENT, ERGO PROXY, FINAL FANTASY: ADVENT CHILDREN, CODE GEASS, and BLEACH. On the video game end, popular titles include WORLD OF WARCRAFT, .HACK, CASTLEVANIA, ACE COMBAT, RESIDENT EVIL, AND DEVIL MAY CRY 4 (which he also traveled to Tokyo for, to act the role first, as part of the motion capture team).
On the directing side, Liam has overseen the English voice ensemble for multiple anime and games. Anime: NARUTO, GUNSWORD, KOI KAZE, DEARS, THE THIRD, BOYS BE, and THE RUMIKO TAKAHASHI ANTHOLOGY. Games: RESIDENT EVIL 5, NARUTO: RISE OF A NINJA, DISASTER: DAY OF CRISIS, and ACE COMBAT 6, ARMORED CORE 4, and TENCHU.
And as a writer, he has adapted over a hundred episodes of anime for English, on shows like NARUTO, CODE GEASS, BLEACH, GUNSWORD, as well as the first two NARUTO animated feature films, and a handful of NARUTO games.
And when he can find time in his frenetic schedule, Liam returns to the theatre. He has preformed on stages around the country, as well as Off Broadway in his hometown of New York City. Most recently, though, were the world premiere of SEX PARASITE, produced by the Mark Taper Forum, and a critically acclaimed production of ALL MY SONS, at the Geffen Playhouse, both in Los Angeles.
SAM REGAL is a voice actor, writer and director living in Los Angeles. Sam has been acting for well over two decades, starting when he was 12 in the National Tour of "Les Miserables," before landing the Broadway revival of "The Sound of Music." While living in New York, Sam became a veteran voice actor in cartoons like YU-GI-OH!, POKEMON, SHAMAN KING and as Donatello in Fox's new TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES series (now in its 7th season).
Most recently, Sam can be heard as Jiro in BLUE DRAGON, Kudamon in DIGIMON: DATA SQUAD, Minoru in LUCKY STAR, Clovis in CODE GEASS, too many video games to list. He is currently writing scripts for the NARUTO cartoon series.
Now kickin' it in Los Angeles, Sam spends much of his days writing… having penned projects for Nickelodeon, Disney, SpikeTV, and articles for Maxim and Stuff Magazines.
Other notable roles include Joey in THE THIRD, Shirou in FATE/STAY NIGHT, Gunter in KYO KARA MAOH, the Assistant Director in NARUTO THE MOVIE, Taniguchi in MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA, Kyoichi in BOYS BE…, Yajiro in GRENADIER, Oihiku in DEARS, Silabus in the .HACK//G.U. video games, Lil Slugger in PARANOIA AGENT, Yoshii in TEXHNOLYZE, and Sumner in the EUREKA SEVEN video games.
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Grizzled con veterans and creative team behind manga titles Oasis Destiny,
Ninja High School: Hawaii and the webmanga 'Aesir Corp' and soon to be released
book 'Katie Bair's: World of Wigcraft.'
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