Kent Williams
Kent is a FUNimation voice actor extraordinaire! You've probably heard a lot of his work, and just never realized it was his! He was the Narrator of YuYu Hakusho, as well as Jorge and Chu, and is currently the Narrator of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as well as voicing Father. Some of his other roles include: Sid Barrett in Soul Eater, Charden Flamberg in Black Cat; Mercenary Tao, Android 20/Dr. Gero and Supreme Kai in the Dragon Ball series; Majihal in Fullmetal Alchemist, Hatori Sohma in Fruits Basket, Jake Russell in D.Gray-man, Mao in Darker Than BLACK, Yoshio Ootori in Ouran High School Host Club, Paul Moriyama in Sgt. Frog, Gyula Kadar in Trinity Blood, Genba Ryougoku in Speed Grapher, and many others.
He is also the Director of Le Theatre De Marionette in Irving TX, which he joined in 1996.
Leah Clark
Leah is a voice actress, writer and ADR director for Funimation Entertainment. She began voice acting after shamelessly begging a friend to let her accompany them to an audition where she landed her first role as Girl B in an episode of Case Closed. She credits the overwhelming amount of female characters in Negima! and an odd talent for creating sheep voices for the opportunity to play her first major role, Nodoka Miyazaki which opened the door for several other memorable roles to follow. As her first love is the stage, Leah studied musical theater at Circle in the Square on Broadway in New York City. Much of her theatrical credits are in children's theater and she has taught acting and improv to students ages 8-16 at Dallas Children's Theater and Zach Scott Theater in Austin.
Leah is one of the founders of the new soon-to-launch 24-hour online convention Condotcom along with Chuck Huber and Jamie Marchi.
Monica Rial
Monica Rial has been working in the anime voice over industry for over 11 years. As an actress for ADV Films and Funimation Entertainment has lent her voice to over 200 anime including: Air Gear (Simca), D. Gray-man (Lero/Lulu Bell), Excel Saga (Hyatt), Ouran Host Club (Renge) and many others. You can also catch her on Nicktoons as Bulma in Dragonball Z Kai. She is an ADR script adaptor and occasionally a director for Funimation Entertainment.
Troy Baker
He's probably best known for his roles as Abel Nightroad in Trinity Blood, Schneizel el Britannia in Code Geass orAction Bastard in Shin-chan; but this year, Troy's voice acting career is running non-stop! His voice work on the newly released Final Fantasy XIII as Snow Villiers has had him in the spotlight, as have his new roles of Akatsuki Kain in Vampire Knight, and Madaro in Kekkashi. He's also voiced Frank Archer in the Fullmetal Alchemist series, White Star and Excalibur in Soul Eater, November 11 in Darker Than Black, Jin Kariya in Bleach, and his very villainous Van Kleiss debuted this Spring on Cartoon Network's new series Generator Rex. His many video game roles, include BloodRayne2, Brothers in Arms, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Darksiders, Ghostbusters the Video Game, and more! He's also got a BUNCH of new stuff in the works that he's dying to share with all of us!
Scot McNeil
Scott had such a great time last year, he is ready to come back and do it all again!
Most of you will recognize Scott as the voice of Duo Maxwell from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Wolverine from X-Men: Evolution, Piccolo from Dragonball Z or Dinobot from Beast Wars, but he's done a lot of new stuff since then. Right now, he's the voice of Voltar on The League of Super Evil, Mister White on Johnny Test, and has recently appeared on TV shows like Supernatural, live action movies like Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed and video games like the Warhammer 40,000 series. From Highlander to Inuyasha's Koga, Transformers' Jetfire to Ace the Bathound on Krypto the Superdog - Scott McNeil has done it all! He's also got some exciting new things to share with us, so be there!
Amelie Belcher
A local grown artist from Baton Rouge who has made a name for herself with various anime fan art, and has even broken into published work in manga style.
Alliance Cosplay
The Alliance is a cosplay performance duo made up of the two freelance cosplayers D (Count D) and Junie (Kaiba) who combined have over Ten years cosplay experience. Over the years they have each individually won various awards for their work, mostly for skits. Then one faithful day after both performing in a dating game, they found each other and it didn't take long for them to bond over their true passion. Making people Laugh! So, marks the creation of THE ALLIANCE. Within no time, they were off bringing their unique (and rather crazy!) halftime shows to other conventions in the south.
D and Junie hope to bring love, happiness, and entertainment to others with their antics. They do this for the love of cosplay and cosplayers; their passion lies in entertaining and providing a good laugh or two. D & Junie are VERY excited to be at LouisiAnime and cannot wait to help cosplayers of any kind with their performances, and any other general cosplay questions!
Beauty started out like so many of us, she had her mom make her first costume. In the spring of 2006 Beauty made her first costume all by her lonesome, Hinako Shijou from KOF, and thus began her torrid love affair with stupidly unrealistic wigs. Beauty's other areas of interest are makeup, fabric painting and dyeing, resin casting and distressing. Beauty has a Bachelor's degree in Theater and Dance from the University of Texas with an emphasis on wigs, hair, and makeup. She has won awards both for her cosplay as well as her collegiate endeavors.
In her freshman year of college she learned to sew with a little instruction on reading patterns from her neighbor and trial and error on the machine. And so she started into cosplay with her first two costumes, Kagome and Sango from Inu Yasha. Since then Kagz has found herself doing more and more elaborate costumes, to improve she took a formal sewing and pattern drafting class with the amazing Sammi Miller at Cameron University. To this day she still looks out for new more elaborate characters to continue and push the boundaries of the possible with cosplay. Specializing in props and wigs, she is also well versed in leather working and fabric dying.