AFO is proud to announce OMFG! (Orlandia Music Festival, GO!) A new weekend long Concert Series at Anime Festival Orlando 14.
AFO is currently looking for the best Geek Related music we can find. Music inspired by Anime, Manga, Fantasy, Sci Fi, J-Culture, Comics, and Video Games. If you know or are a band or performer have them fill out the application here.
Aside from her work as a voice actress, she swam with the killer whale Keiko for the 1993 film Free Willy and was the stunt double for the young actor in the film. Derryberry has provided the voices of a series of characters, mostly those of young boys and tomboyish girls, with her warm, chipper tones. In addition to voicing her best known role, the title character of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Nickelodeon’s television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Derryberry has also provided voice-over for Ice Age: The Meltdown, she is the voice of Wednesday Addams in the 1990s animated version of The Addams Family, Weenie and Catrina on Oswald, Taz‘s little brother Jake onTaz-Mania and Coco Bandicoot in the Crash Bandicoot video game series. She has also done some voice work for comedic English language adaptations of anime titles such as Zatch Bell! in which she plays the titular character, his evil twin Zeno, and Ryo-Ohki, Yugi, and various other characters from several versions of the anime series Tenchi Muyo!. Aside from voice acting, she was the founder and lead singer for the indie country band Honey Pig, writing and producing most of the songs on their two CDs. Currently she is focusing on a children’s music career with her CDs “What A Way To Play” and “Very Derryberry”, having won a number of industry awards. She is an advocate for animals and has hosted at her North Hollywood home a fundraiser for the benefit of orangutans as an endangered species, under the Orang Utan Republik charitable foundation. She also played the part of Draculaura (daughter of Count Dracula) in kid series Monster High along with Draculaura’s BMFF (Best Monster Friends Forever) Frankie Stein (the daughter of Frankenstein) and Clawdeen Wolf (the daughter of the Werewolf).
Here is the link for anyone interested in volunteering in the Video Game Room for AFO14!
http://animefestivalorlando.com/game-room-attendant-application/
A veteran of over 10 seasons of the Power Rangers series, Paul Schrier is the longest appearing character in the now iconic action children’s show. Rounding out acting work, Paul is also a 3D digital artist, TV and Theatre Director, and still occasionally does theatre and voice acting when time allows. In addition to recently appearing in Saban’s Power Rangers Samurai on Nickelodeon, Paulie also is Creative Director at an undisclosed Los Angeles Art Studio, has been known to pun mercilessly, and fronts a killer band called the Ice Cream Truckers.
AFO is proud to welcome the ADR Director, and voice of Gai Shishio from the GREATEST anime ever, King of Braves Gaogaigar!
Michael Tremain Sinterniklaas is a French American actor, voice actor, ADR Director and script writer who has worked for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, Bandai Entertainment, FUNimation Entertainment, Viz Media, and Tripwire Productions. He is the founder of NYAV Post, A Bi-coastal studio located in New York City and Los Angeles, which dubbed more than over 350 different anime titles and recorded several original prelay works.
He was born in France, and moved to the United States when he was 10 years old. Sinterniklaas graduated from High School of the Performing Arts in New York City, and attended college in North Carolina where he did work at both Southwynde and Coastal Carolina Studios.
Stephanie Ru-Phan Sheh is a Chinese-American voice actress, a writer, and a story editor who has worked for Geneon Entertainment, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Bandai Entertainment, Media Blasters, NYAV Post, FUNimation Entertainment, and Viz Media. As Jennifer Sekiguchi, she has been honored with a nomination for “Best Voice Actress in an Anime Comedy” by the American Anime Awards for her work in Kirie Kojima in Girls Bravo, and Guu in Haré+Guu. She is often in anime involving Kari Wahlgren another female lead in FLCL.
Her most notable roles are Orihime Inoue in Bleach, Eureka in Eureka Seven, Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Wendy Garret in Gun X Sword, Hinata Hyuga in Naruto, Audrey Burne in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn and Yui Hirasawa from K-On!.
Aside from acting, she has also adapted and written scripts for projects like FLCL, Ikki Tousen, Ah! My Goddess, Hell Girl, and Romeo X Juliet, and even co-directed Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles alongside fellow voice actor Liam O’Brien.
Jason Andrew Narvy is an accomplished film and stage actor from Los Angeles, CA. He began his career studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in Los Angeles and quickly found employment in the Hollywood film industry. He is best known for his portrayal of the comic villain “Skull” from 1993-2001 on Fox Television’s Emmy-nominated Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and its spin-offs, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, and Power Rangers in Space, as well as the voice of Combat Chopper on the Sci-Fi Children’s show Masked Rider. Over the years he worked with the American Shakespeare Center, Clayworks Theater Company, the Santa Susana Repertory Company, Shakespeare Santa Barbara, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, and the Legitimate Theater Company of Brooklyn as an actor and director. He is now based in Chicago where he is Artistic Director for ACT and Assistant Professor of Theater at Concordia University Chicago. Dr. Narvy holds a Master of Letters in Shakespearean Performance from Mary Baldwin College and a PhD in Theater Studies from the University of California.
The application for AFO’s Artist Alley is now live! You can submit your application for a table at this year’s show starting now!
Attention Artists! How would you like to win a FREE pass to Anime Festival Orlando 14?
AFO is looking for some new artwork of Sho & Jo, our mascots that appear on our various convention products and merchandise! For more information, click here!
DC’s first break came in 1996 when he landed a small role in Boston Common, an NBC pilot. When the show was picked up for a season he returned in ten additional episodes as the character D.C., the antagonist to Hedy Burress’s character.
Film credits include Black Ops with Lance Henriksen and Universal Remote: The Movie with Charles Q. Murphy; Hallmark Channel TV movie Final Approach with Dean Cain; and the Lindsay Lohan “comeback” film Labor Pains on the ABC Family channel.
Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful, 24, Star Trek: Enterprise, NYPD Blue, ER, Charmed, Without A Trace among others. He most recently appeared in CBS’s Criminal Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles, ABC’s Castle, Comedy Central’sWorkaholics and Fox’s Raising Hope.
D.C. Douglas’ voice over career encompasses video games, anime, television and radio commercials, film and voice-matching celebrities like Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey. He was part of the first wave of “internet age” voice over artists at the beginning of the 21st century who built and worked from home studios.
Voice over credits include The Master in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game, Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil 5 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Raven inTekken 6, AWACS Ghost Eye in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, Commandant Alexei in Tales of Vesperia, Legion in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, Grimoire Noir in Nier, as well as several national campaigns (including the GEICO Celebrity campaign from 2006–2008, the McDonald’s Be The Sizzle campaign from 2009–2010, and Radio Shack’s Holiday Hero campaign in 2010).
