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.
