John is thrilled to join us onsite Saturday for the EVA – Originals panel at 3pm, and will be available after for autographs.
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, Okratron 5000, 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. Being more of the character actor type has given John the freedom to voice bazillions of characters such as Undertaker in Black Butler, Salvador in Borderlands II (VG), Gendo in Evangelion, Sgt. Hauser in Halo (VG), Lord Death in Soul Eater, Hoenheim in Fullmetal Alchemist, Sir Crocodile in One Piece, Dodoria in DBZ Kai, Kogoro in Sgt. Frog, Huang in Darker than Black, Hades in Fairy Tale, Zachary in Attack on Titan, Aramaki in Ghost in the Shell, and Jinnouchi in Summer Wars, as well as roles in the live action films 2009 Lost Memories, Conduct Zero, Yesterday, Jungle Juice, and the Gamera trilogy. Most recently you can catch John in the broadcast series of GANGSTA as Chad, and Akame Ga Kill as Bols as seen on Toonami. John is also very excited to be playing one of the title roles in Funimation’s theatrical release (March 2016) of Mamoru Hosoda’s film, The Boy and the Beast. John plays the Beast, Kametesu. 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 (live action co-directed with longtime pal, Kyle Jones). John loves working in the world of anime as a director and voice actor! Currently John is working with pals Kyle Jones and Jay Hickman on an original animation full length movie called The Perfect Khan. In addition to anime, John has voiced thousands of radio and tv commercials – even acted in a few films. One of the coolest acting jobs was being the Beer Delivery Guy in Dazed and Confused.
Matt is thrilled to join us onsite Saturday for the EVA – Originals panel at 3pm, and will be available after for autographs.
Matt Greenfield became obsessed with anime, science fiction and giant monster movies at a very early age and, against all odds, actually found a way to turn his interests into a career. In addition to writing, directing and producing the English language versions of more anime series than he can now remember, including EVANGELION, MACROSS, NADESICO, BATTLE ANGEL, CHRONO CRUSADE, BUBBLEGUM CRISIS 2040, EXCEL SAGA, INFINITE STRATOS, DEN-NOH COIL, NOIR, GANTZ, and Kaiju classics like GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE, GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and GARO, he’s also a prolific voice actor, usually performing under the stage name Brian Granveldt. In addition to writing, directing and producing the original English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion, he was also the voice of Hyuga and the Eva Units.
Matt will be onsite Saturday for the EVA – Originals panel, and will be available after for autographs.
Allison is super excited to join us for 1 hour by video to take part in the EVA – The Originals panel Saturday 9/21/2019 from 3-4 PM. This marks the first time all three kid pilots VA’s have been at the same convention and Allison is ecstatic to join them. She is taking time out of her 22nd anniversary trip to talk with you about Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Spike Spencer can be heard on the Nickelodeon show Get Blake! as Mitch, the scrappy best pal of the future Space Ranger Blake. The two fight alien space squirrels who come back in time to defeat Blake before he becomes a Ranger. Hilarity ensues.
Spike has voiced hundreds of episodes of Anime including such notable titles as Evangelion, Bleach, Vampire Knight, Naruto, Black Butler, Doraemon, Knights of Sidonia, Pokemon, Gundam Unicorn, Durarara! and many many more.
His video game credits include Bravely Default, Bioshock:Infinite, Saints Row 3, XCOM:Declassified, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Lego Ultra Agents, Tales of Vesperia, BlazBlue, Dynasty and Samurai Warriors, and many others.
An accomplished onscreen actor, he has worked with such notable stars as Tommy Lee Jones, Sandra Bullock, Frank Langella, Tia Carrere, and Scott Glenn and has been on set with many other stars. Spike has also lent his voice to numerous radio and TV commercials.
Spike is also an author, including “How to Be A Frickin Genius Voice Actor, Step One” and “What Happens At The Con, Stays At The Con?” Both of which he presents as panels at the con.
Spike is also an avid sailor, cook, traveler, and enjoys a good bit of dancing from time to time.
Visit his official websites:
www.spikespencer.com
www.almostevilminions.com
www.dontkillyourdate.com
****Spike teaches Voice Acting around the globe in person and via email and Skype. If you are interested in learning the art of Voice Acting from Spike contact
him at: spike@worldospike.com
