Tony Oliver, is a seasoned voice actor best known for voicing Rick Hunter from Robotech and Arsène Lupin III from Lupin The 3rd.

He has also done voicework in various Power Rangers series (one of his best-known roles being that of Saba in MMPR), and has also written several episodes of Power Rangers, between MMPR Season 1 and Power Rangers Turbo.

He was the supervising producer for the series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, VR Troopers, and Masked Rider, as well as the co-producer for Power Rangers: Zeo.

You can hear Tony Oliver in more recent anime in roles such as Ulquiorra Schiffer in Bleach, Harry MacDowell in Gungrave, and as the Hidden Leaf Village’s legendary fourth Hokage in Naruto.

Speaking of ninjas, he is also fan-favorite Bang Shishigami in the popular fighting game BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.

A prolific voiceover artist, Jessica Straus has dozens of credits to her name. While she has done voice work for animation, toys, educational projects and commercials, the majority of her most recognizable work is in anime and game titles.

Among her anime credits many may recognize her as Deunan Knute in Masamuni Shirow’s Appleseed CGI reboot from 2005. In the anime Monster, you can hear her as Milo, the innocent and abused little orphan boy, in addition to other voices in that series. She also reprised her role of Gidget for the Eureka Seven movie and the voices of the child-bride Empress and Xiang-lin, both in Code Geass R2.

Some of Jessica’s game credits include the recently released Capcom title, Super Street Fighter IV, where she plays Juri Han, the sexy new badass with the red-devil eyes. She is also the voice of Slipstream, a female Seeker in Transformers: War for Cybertron.

Other gaming credits include Pi in the .hack//G.U. series; voices of several evil female characters for THQ’s new game Darksiders and also a female Allied Commander in their Red Faction games series, Red Faction: Guerilla.

Additionally, she provides the voice of the female lead, Lori Machete in the Vogster Entertainment title Unbound Saga and on Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love from NIS/America she voices Cherry. But the most unique character she has done so far for games is in the Square Enix title Nier where she voices a child-turned monster who just growls.

Most recognized as the voice of Krillin on the wildly popular, animated TV show Dragonball Z and as an illustrator for, arguably, the most famous, independently published comic book series Elfquest. Sonny Strait has over 20 years of experience in the arts.

As a voice actor, Sonny is considered to be one of the most recognized voice actors in the business. Besides Dragonball Z’s Krillin he has worked on many popular animated characters including Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist, Usopp from One Piece and Cartoon Network’s laid back, robot host Toonami Tom. He has also worked as a writer and director on several TV series including Dragonball Z, Case Closed and Lupin the Third.

As a comic book artist he has 17 published works to date including his débuted self-published series Mr. Average featured in The Comics Journal and Elfquest which was published by both WARP Graphics and DC Comics. Sonny is considered one of the top Elfquest artists from its over 30 year history.

In 2007, Sonny wrote and illustrated a graphic novel about a reluctant punk rock, faerie princess named Goat. The book, called We Shadows, was published by Tokyopop and was nominated by The American Library Association for Best Graphic Novel in 2008. The book received glowing reviews in many trade magazines including Publishers Weekly, Newtype, Play and Anime Insider.

Currently Sonny is reprising his roles in both the new Dragonball Z and Full Metal Alchemist series and plays the title role in the Xbox game S’plosion Man. Sonny also began illustrating Marvel Comic’s sketch cards recently for Rittenhouse and fetches ebay prices up to $800 per card for his depictions of Marvel’s superheroes.

Tommy Yune has worked for over a decade in the comic book and video game industries. His early game development experience includes character design of the pioneering 3D fighting game FX Fighter for the Nintendo SuperFX chip and conceptual design of the award-winning Journeyman Project series.

He also wrote and illustrated hit comic book titles such as Speed Racer, Racer X, Robotech, and Danger Girl: Kamikaze which were published by DC Comics’ Wildstorm and Cliffhanger labels. His first work in feature animation was creating the computer-generated opening sequence of Kevin Altieri’s Gen13.

Tommy grew up on a steady diet of anime, watching as much Prince Planet, Gatchaman and Casshan as he could in Asia and the United States. Then he shunned television and went back to being a responsible student to the delight of his parents. However, right before entering the UCLA School of Engineering, Robotech brought anime back into his life and he eventually found himself at the ArtCenter College of Design instead. His parents wept.

Tommy first worked in an official capacity for the Robotech universe by helping design Robotech.com for its launch in 2001. He has since come aboard as Harmony Gold’s creative director and oversees new development, including Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles which completed production in 2006.

David Yost first developed his love of entertainment in the second grade when he played Dopey in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Hearing the audience laugh at his character had him hooked.


After graduating college David moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and within three months David landed a starring role on what would go on to be one of the world’s most popular television series.

David Yost starred as Billy, the Blue Ranger on international television sensation “The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.” David completed over 200 episodes as well as doing the feature film “Power Rangers: The Movie” distributed through 20th Century Fox.

In the world of Anime, David served as the Manager of International TV Licensing for Pioneer/Geneon Entertainment. David is personally responsible for selling the Anime series “HEAT GUY J” to MTV, “ARMITAGE” to SHOWTIME, “TRIGUN” to Cartoon Network as well closing deals with STARZ and G4 in the USA. David also licensed numerous Anime titles to international distributors and broadcasters.

David has also held the position of Director of Production and Administration for the Sci Fi Lab, a development think tank for the SyFy Channel in which he participated in the creation of innovative show ideas for the network. “Scare Tactics” is one of the longer running series with which David was involved. Also, David is an accomplished TV Producer and recently wrapped “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” for BRAVO.

Dan Southworth is best known by sentai fans as the Quantum Ranger Eric Meyers in Power Rangers: Time Force. He performed all his own stunts in the role. He was also the suit actor for Adam the black power ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers World Tour Live on Stage .

Video game fans will immediately know him as the voice and body behind Vergil in Devil May Cry 3. Southworth played the calm antagonist of the smash hit game with such impact Vergil immediately became a fan favorite.

With a black belt and state/national titles to his name Southworth has years of experience under his belt. He is trained in Kenpo, Taekwondo, Judo, and Jeet Kun Do. His expertise has led him to work with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Jet Li.

Daniel has a long list of credits in stunts and motion capture. He has participated in Resident Evil 5, Halo 3, Ghostbusters video game, Hidalgo, The Tuxedo, and Charmed just to name a few.

Based in Los Angeles, Actor/Producer/Director Reuben Langdon began his career in Japan as a regular on the Japanese TV series B-Fighter Kabuto.

He later relocated to Hong Kong to work amongst some of the most famous and respected names in the Hong Kong film industry, most notably of which was with Jackie Chan on Jackie Chan: My Stunts, Gen-Y Cops and the internationally renowned fantasy adventure The Medallion. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Reuben continues to develop his craft onscreen and has appeared alongside Sammo Hung in the TV series Martial Law and made regular appearances on The Power Ranger’s among many others.

In addition to his success in the world of film and television, Reuben has also performed in and coordinated a number of motion capture shoots for interactive video games including Tao Feng, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II, Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Deadrising, The Bourne Conspiracy and both Devil May Cry 3 and 4. Following his success in this field, Reuben has gone on to work as a performance capture actor with directors Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and is currently filming the performance capture/live action hybrid film, Avatar, for director James Cameron.

Anime Festival Orlando is proud to welcome Jason David Frank back again. Kyoshi Frank will be recognized by anime and sentai fans as Tommy Oliver of the Power Rangers television series franchise; he the Green Ranger and later the White Ranger in “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers,” the Red Ranger in both Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo and the Black Ranger in Dino Thunder. He was also in both Power Ranger feature films.

Aside from his Power Rangers work Jason has appeared in a number of other shows and films. His latest project is a film with Don “The Dragon” Wilson.

Besides acting, Jason runs four dojos. He is an accomplished 6th degree Black Belt with over 29 years experience in the martial arts. He is an internationally recognized and award winning instructor who was a nationally rated competitor from 1988 to 1990.

With his knowledge of many different styles of martial arts, Kyoshi Frank used the most practical applications, modified them with his own philosophies and created his own blend of American Karate.

On June 28, 2003 Kyoshi Jason David Frank was inducted into the World Karate Union Hall of Fame as Master of the Year “American Karate.”

Kyoshi started his full contact career in 2006 with 1 T.K.O. and 1 K.O. In that same year Kyoshi Frank won the prestigious “Ruff Man” Grand Champion title in Indiana and later that year won The Gold Medal in Master Toddy’s Full Contact Muay Thai by MTIA (Muay Thai International Assoc.), an association under the WBC.