Dragon Con welcomes guests from around the globe – with new people announced all the time! Take a look at the inventive minds, luminaries, and celebrities you’ll be spending the weekend with.
Sarah Nakamura transitioned from book enthusiast to Story Consultant for Amazon's The Wheel of Time TV series. She is currently involved in post-production for the highly anticipated third season.
Camilla Cleese is a writer and comedian. She regularly tours doing stand up comedy and has made television appearances including Comedy Central and AGT.
Sanford Greene has worked as a professional illustrator for over 18 years for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics. He helped reshape Marvel Comics characters Powerman and Iron Fist and illustrated Black Panther and Luke Cage. Greene is a 2-time Eisner and Ringo Award winner for Bitter Root, which is slated to become a film.
Kevin Maguire is an artist/writer/creator primarily known for his 1987 debut series Justice League International with writers Keith Giffen and Marc DeMatteis. From there he was penciller on Adventures Of Captain America, Batman Confidential: The Cat and The Bat, Created Equal, and X-Men Forever with writer Fabian Nicieza.
Don McGregor, original writer of Black Panther comic books, has become one of the foremost writers in comic books today. With almost 30 years of experience in the field, McGregor incorporates a deep understanding of human nature into his stories, blending humanity with humility and pain with glory.
Ariel Diaz is a self-taught multimedia artist/illustrator fully devoted to her career. Her unique style has mad a strong and positive impression in the comic industry, with her art being featured in DC and Marvel Comics.
Manuel Jacinto is an actor whose breakout role came as Jason Mendoza on The Good Place. Jacinto had minor roles in Bad Times at the El Royale and Top Gun: Maverick and portrayed Qimir in the Star Wars series The Acolyte. He also provides the voice of Scott Denoga in the Disney Channel and Disney+ animated series Hailey's On It!
Deric A. Hughes is writer/co-executive producer for NBC’s Quantum Leap, CW’s Legacies, Arrow, The Flash, Beauty & the Beast, and Syfy’s Warehouse 13. Additionally, he was writer/producer for EFE’s webseries, Gemini Division and Afterworld, Virgin comic book series, John Woo’s 7 Brothers, and co-creator for comic book, Living In Infamy, and Renegade.
William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions, including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films, doing everything from storyboard art to production design.
Jeff Brown is a professional illustrator and designer from Canada, specializing in epic fantasy and science fiction book covers. His work focuses on an epic scope and giant scale.
Amanda Schull is an actor and former professional ballet dancer. She is known for her lead role in Center Stage, and for her recurring roles on One Tree Hill and Pretty Little Liars. She starred as Dr. Cassandra Railly in 12 Monkeys, and played a recurring role on Suits before being promoted to series regular.
Native Atlantan Dexter Vines is one of comics' most prolific and well respected artists/inkers with over 25 years of experience. Vines has worked for almost every major comic publisher, including such titles as Superman/Batman, Civil War, and Wolverine: Old Man Logan. His recent projects include Ahsoka and Mace Windu.
Megan Ansdell works at NASA Headquarters as the Habitable Worlds Observatory Program scientist, Mars Sample Return planetary protection lead, and Planetary Science AI/ML lead.
Harvey Guillen is currently one of the leads in the new FX series dark comedy What We Do In The Shadows. Guillen previously appeared in The Magicians, Eye Candy, Huge, Little America, Room 104, The Good Place, Raising Hope, and more.
Kayvan Novak is an actor and comedian who co-created and starred in the comedy series Fonejacker and Facejacker, winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy in 2008. He also portrayed Waj in the comedy film Four Lions, Nandor the Relentless in the mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows, and Fabian Kingsworth in Archer.
Dr. Lori Glaze is the acting deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. Her interests include volcanology, atmospheric transport and diffusion processes, and geologic mass movements.
Shane Gries is a retired US Army Colonel. He spent over 18 years posted overseas in Europe, Asia, and Oceania, and can order beer in several languages. He has seven published novels and two short stories.
Emily Hampshire is best known for roles including Angelina in Boy Meets Girl, Vivienne in Snow Cake, Jennifer Goines in the Syfy drama series 12 Monkeys, and Stevie Budd in the comedy series Schitt's Creek, as well as the voice role of Misery in the animated series Ruby Gloom.
Billy Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. His more recent series include the young adult Pathfinder series, the fantasy Mithermages series, and the Side Step series. The long awaited conclusion to the Ender series, The Last Shadow, was published in 2021.
Bruce Horak is a Canadian artist and television and stage actor, known for portraying Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Widely known for his role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you might also know him as Charlie from the iconic series Lost, Chris Bradley aka Bolt in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or as Beaumont in Star Wars, along with award winning podcasts and dozens of cameos in series and films.
Kat Pleviak is the founder and Artistic Director of Sea Beast Puppet Company. She produces the Puppet Meltdown Puppet Slam and created The Shadow Puppet Conspiracy.
Elijah Wood is an actor and producer known for his portrayal of Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Wood can also be seen in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Wilfred, and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
John Eric “J. E.” Schleicher is an award winning author who writes stories that leave behind a fantastical aftertaste long after reading. His short fiction has appeared in various publications.
Tom Vandermolen is an award winning author of science fiction and horror stories. He lives in Seattle, but you can find him online at https://tomvandermolen.com
Psychotic biotic? Check. Conflicted Jedi? Check. Elusive and sexy spy? Check and check! That's right; Jack from Mass Effect, Juhani from Knights of the Old Republic, and Ada Wong of Resident Evil 6 all share the same vocal chords of actress Courtenay Taylor!
Vincent D'Onofrio is a legendary actor and filmmaker. His credits include Full Metal Jacket, The Whole Wide World, Men in Black, Men in Black: The Series, The Cell, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Jurassic World. He has recently been seen playing Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Globally, Dwayne Cameron is best known for playing the role of Tyzonn the Mercury Power Ranger in Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive and also guest-starring in Power Rangers: S.P.D and Power Rangers: DinoThunder. He will be appearing in the J & J Collectibles booth 2527/2529 of the Vendor Hall.
John Scalzi is the New York Times bestselling, Hugo, and Dragon Award winning author of Old Man's War, Starter Villain, and other books.
Dr. Glenn Parris is the medical director of Parris and Associates Rheumatology. He writes sci-fi, fantasy, and crime thrillers including Dragon's Heir and many others.
Kevin Clash is a puppeteer, producer, and director known for performing Elmo from 1979-2012, as well as Splinter (TMNT), Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs), and Clifford (Muppets Tonight). Credits include Labyrinth, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Happy Time Murders, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.
Combining my love for electronic music and coding, I am also delving into the exciting realm of shaders to create captivating performance visuals and enhance my live shows as a VJ.
Ben Durocher is an actor, puppeteer, and puppet builder for Jim Henson Company with credits Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Helpsters, and Pineapple Playhouse and upcoming Dying For Sex and Mr. Crocket. Durocher has completed 1300+ performances in Avenue Q off-Broadway and performed in Madame Butterfly. He is a two-time Emmy Award winning puppet wrangler on Sesame Street.
Frenchy and the Punk is the eclectic New York post-punk, dark alternative duo with a French born singer and veteran punk rock guitarist. With sultry powerful vocals and live looped raucous guitar riffs, they were named top 25 duos in America by Yahoo Music.
Nicole Goldman oversees marketing and live events for The Jim Henson Company, launching brands like Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Puppet Up! – Uncensored, and Farscape. Productions include Jim Henson's Inspired Silliness, Uni-Verse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, and the new Fraggle Rock stage show.
Donna Kimball plays Mokey in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock and voiced Aughra in Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. Other credits include Happytime Murders, Word Party, Sid the Science Kid, and Doc Ock's badass upper right claw in Spider-Man 2. Donna co-created GLOP: The Glorious Ladies of Puppetry.
Lips Down On Dixie is an Atlanta based Rocky Horror Picture Show cast which performs weekly Friday midnight shows at The Plaza Theater. Known nationally for their screen accuracy, the cast has made appearances at venues around the Southeast region including Masquerade, Club Future, Chamber, Tongue & Groove, and others.
Jordan Lockhart is a Sesame Workshop trained puppeteer and writer whose work has appeared on Apple TV+, Netflix, Nickelodeon and TVOKids. Some of his credits include Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Barbarian and the Troll, Canada Crew, and the preschool hit Hi Opie!, earning him two Canadian Screen Award nominations.
Paul Mercer is a pioneer in neoclassical music who has played the violin since the age of eight. His studies in classical and Hindustani music, decades of busking, playing in bands, managing a violin shop, and travelling have created a unique style combining centuries-old instruments and modern electronic effects.
Karen Prell puppeteered Red Fraggle on the original Fraggle Rock TV series and on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, currently streaming on AppleTV+. She performed on many other Jim Henson productions for over 40 years and has also worked as a computer animator for Pixar, Disney, and Valve.
John Tartaglia is an acclaimed actor, director, writer, and puppeteer. Known for originating both Rod and Princeton in Broadway's Avenue Q, he currently performs Gobo, Architect, Gunge, Barry Blueberry, and Sprocket in Apple TV+'s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, for which he also writes, directs, and executive produces.
Natasha Liu Bordizzo is known for her role of Snow Vase in Netflix's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. She portrayed the character of Helena in The Society and Heather in Day Shift. In 2023, she portrayed Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren in the Disney+ series Ahsoka.
Ming Chen is most well known for being
one of the stars of AMC's Comic Book Men as well as a longtime collaborator of
filmmaker Kevin Smith. He can most recently be seen in Clerks III and is the
unofficial mayor of The Clermont Lounge in Atlanta.
Seth Green is an actor known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and comedy films like Idle Hands and the Austin Power film series. Fans may recognize his voice from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Family Guy, Mass Effect, and more. Green created, directed, wrote, and produced Robot Chicken and its spinoffs.
Paul Jenkins has been creating, writing, and building franchises for over 30 years in the graphic novel, film, and video game industries. Over the last two decades Jenkins has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of literally hundreds of world-renowned, recognizable entertainment icons.
Adrian Pasdar has established himself as one of the finest and most versatile actors on the scene today. Pasdar has recently appeared on Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the CW's Supergirl, and starred for four seasons on the hit NBC series Heroes.
Patrick Warburton is known to audiences worldwide from his starring roles on Seinfeld, The Tick, NewsRadio, Less Than Perfect, and Rules of Engagement. Voice performances include Kronk on The Emperor's New Groove, Brock Samson on Venture Brothers, Joe Swanson on Family Guy, and Steve Barkin on Kim Possible.
Andy Brase has done art for many titles including Magic the Gathering (Kaldheim, Midnight Hunt, Lost Caverns of Ixalan), Alien, Predator, Star Wars, Doctor Strange, Punisher, Assassin's Creed, DragonAge, Swamp Thing, Dark Sun, Kull, Spider-Man, Hulk, Daredevil, The Darkness, and more, including book covers for stories by George RR Martin and Neil Gaiman.
Santiago Cabrera is an actor best known for his roles as Isaac Mendez in Heroes, Lancelot in Merlin, and Aramis in The Musketeers. He was also the lead in Salvation as Darius Tanz and played Captain Cristóbal "Cris" Rios in Star Trek: Picard.
Christina Chong can be seen in Monroe, Line of Duty, Halo: Nightfall, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, and 24: Live Another Day. She currently plays the role of La'an Noonien-Singh in the series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Devon Eriksen is the acclaimed writer behind Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1, finalist for both the 2024 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the 2024 Prometheus Award.
Michelle Hurd is known for her television work as Raffi Musiker in Star Trek series Picard, Shepherd in Blindspot, and recurring appearances on Hawaii Five-O, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones.
Walter Koenig had a recurring role of the quintessential scoundrel Bester on the television series Babylon 5 (1994). He has also appeared on dozens of other television series, including his role as Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek (1966) series and subsequent movies.
Afua Richardson is an American illustrator, author, musician, singer, songwriter, and mentor. In 2007, she made history as one of the first Indigenous Afro-American female artists to work for Marvel Comics as a penciler, inker, and colorist, earning the Nina Simone Award for artistic excellence.
The diverse actress Ming-Na Wen is best known for her roles in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Previously, she has be seen on ER, SGU Stargate Universe, Eureka, and heard as the voice of Mulan. She can most recently be seen playing in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
Erin Gray is best known for her roles as Kate Summers in the comedy Silver Spoons, Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and roles in Six Pack, with Kenny Rogers, and Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to Hell.
Kirk Acevedo is an American actor primarily known for his work on television for his portrayals of Miguel Alvarez in the HBO series Oz, Joe Toye in Band of Brothers, and FBI Agent Charlie Francis in Fringe. He also portrayed the character of José Ramse on Syfy's 12 Monkeys, as well as villain Ricardo Diaz / The Dragon on The CW's Arrow.
Dark pop artist and composer Brittany Bindrim released her long-awaited debut album Velella Velella with Metropolis Records this Spring. Already known for her catchy melodies and powerhouse vocal performances in her band, I:Scintilla, Bindrim ventures off into foreign sonic terrains as a solo artist with hard-hitting, edgy tracks.
John Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Cleese starred in the Monty Python films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life.
Mike Colter is best known for his roles as Lemond Bishop in The Good Wife, Malcolm Ward in Ringer, and Luke Cage in Marvel's Luke Cage, The Defenders, and Jessica Jones, all set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He can currently be seen playing David Acosta in the CBS/Paramount+ series Evil.
Video games and speed metal together as one.
Aaron Stanford is an American actor known for his roles as Pyro in X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Deadpool & Wolverine, and Doug in the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes. From 2010 to 2013, he starred as Birkhoff in Nikita. He has also starred as James Cole on the television series 12 Monkeys, based on the 1995 film of the same name.
Wasted Wine is a Dragon Con veteran of two previous years. We are a four piece acoustic act who sings humorous, dark songs about esoteric topics. Think Danny Elfman meets Gogol Bordello!
Starting with Scanners (1986), Chris Britton is no stranger to fans of sci-fi/fantasy, whether its Stargate, X-Men: The Animated Series, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Magicians, Riverdale, Locke & Key, the X-Men '97 TV Series, or DC's Legends of Tomorrow, you will certainly recognize him.
DJ THX has been the DJ for the 10 Forward dance for the last seven years. He brings fun and high energy music to the dance floor. He has been DJing all kinds of events for over 10 years.
Shadow Girls Cult, co-founded in 2018 by Cass Bray and Zane Exactly, is a queer shadow puppetry and projections duo based in Seattle, WA.
Mark McDonagh is a physicist and retired Navy submarine force Captain who has been running the National Security Decision Making Game since 1990. He lectures extensively on emerging technology, modern weapons, geopolitical topics, and military history with particular expertise in WWII, the early Cold War, and history of submarine warfare.
Independent researcher Dr. Paulette Richards co-curated the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit and wrote Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States.
Jonna Mendez is a retired CIA officer who was Chief of Disguise in the CIA's "Q" branch. Her new book is In True Face. She has briefed presidents and prime ministers, and worked with Hollywood's makeup and magic industries. She explains the importance of deception and illusion to CIA.
Artist and illustrator noted for Shadowrun, Vampire The Masquerade, Hellblazer, The Punisher, Star Trek, Hellraiser, Jennifer Blood, Bad Planet, The Shadow, Pestilence, and many more. His TV/film work includes Blade II, The Punisher, The Walking Dead, The Expanse, and Creepshow. Tim is currently working
on Cinematica
and Fire Outlook.
Meredith Garretson can currently be seen in the leading role of Kate Hawthorne in Resident Alien. You can also see her portray Ali MacGraw in The Offer. She is also a member of the DC Comics universe, having portrayed Delores Winters on Stargirl on the CW.
Devan Henderson is a specialty costumer for film and tv who works on iconic superhero suits. He is also Co-DM of the live actual play podcast D4, alongside Dustin Fletcher.
Anson Mount is known for his television roles as Cullen Bohannon in the AMC's series Hell on Wheels, Jim Steele on NBC series Conviction, the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans, and Captain Christopher Pike in season two of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Actor Ethan Peck is best known for his roles in the movies The Sorcerer's Apprentice and In Time, and the series 10 Things I Hate About You and Star Trek: Discovery. In addition, Peck has lent his voice to Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.
Cobie Smulders has worked in film, television, stage, and audio narration. Smulders is known for her starring roles as Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother, Anne Coulter in American Crime: Impeachment, Simone in High School for Amazon Studios, and most recently Maria Hill in Marvel's series Secret Invasion.
Jamy Ian Swiss is a sleight-of-hand artist, speaker, and author. Television appearances includes The Today Show and The Late, Late Show. Penn and Teller call him, “James Bond with a deck of cards as a pistol!” The New Yorker declared, “Swiss is widely thought to have one of the most masterly sleight-of-hand techniques in the world today.”
Sara Tomko is an actor and CEO of In The Pocket Productions. She is most notably known as Asta Twelvetrees in the hit show Resident Alien. She is an actor, producer, poet, singer, artist, earring maker, thrift store seeker, and mental health advocate. You can find her on Instagram @saratomko19
Multi-dimensional actor Alan Tudyk never fails to surprise us. He made us think in I, Robot, terrified us in Dollhouse, made us love him in Firefly and Serenity, and commiserate with him in Con Man. He is currently starring in Resident Alien. And that only skims the surface.
Alice Wetterlund is a stand-up comedian and actor who performs regularly at San Francisco's Punchline, LA's Largo, and The Hollywood Improv. You can see Wetterlund in Silicon Valley, People of Earth, and Resident Alien. Her special My Mama is a Human and So Am I is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
The Atlanta Swing Orchestra is a group of musicians that really love to play the big band music that gets you tearing up the dance floor! They are dedicated to keeping the Great American Songbook alive by playing tunes from the 30s and 40s to modern classics.
DJ Neon the Glowgobear has been the DJ and producer of the Spectrum party for over 10 years running.
Robert Hendrickson has created artwork for some of the largest brands in entertainment, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and more. Clients include, Lucasfilm, Disney, and New Line Cinema. He has produced artwork for over 15 years in the Star Wars Universe seen worldwide.
Babs Olusanmokun is a Nigerian-American actor best known for playing Dr. Joseph M'Benga in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present) and Jamis in Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). He also appeared in the video game Max Payne 3 as Serrano, providing both acting and voice content.
Currently DJing various clubs and events in Glasgow, Scotland, Scapey is an alternative DJ who has been on the go since 1998.
The Faithful Sidekicks are a comedic geek folk-pop/filk duo who write and perform original catchy songs about fandoms, gaming, and technology who won the 2021 Best Performer Pegasus Award. They play fun songs with a ton of heart and a touch of snark for nerds, geeks, and fans of all kinds.
Kathleen O'Shea David started working with puppets at a young age. Along the way she has learned few more skills. Her puppets are in various collections. She is an equity stage manager with an MFA from Yale. She is a published writer and editor of various works.
For over a decade TC Costello has been bringing his Celtic steampunk music to the dive bars, street corners, and festivals of Europe, Asia, and the United States. The last few years have seen him playing on the streets of Dragon Con, and this year he is thrilled to finally play the stages of the happiest convention on earth.
Brett Dalton is an actor best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Detective Mark Trent in the series Found, and Michael Munroe in the video game Until Dawn. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Freyr in God of War: Ragnarök.
Dallas Liu is an American actor who made his acting debut as young Jin Kazama in Tekken. He has gone on to appear in the television series PEN15 as Shuji Ishii-Peters and as Carter in Legendary Dudas. He portrays Prince Zuko in the Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action remake of the animated series of the same name.
Jared Padalecki is best known for playing the role of Sam Winchester in the TV series Supernatural. He rose to fame after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as the films New York Minute, Flight of the Phoenix, House of Wax, and Friday the 13th.
Andrew Robinson has painted covers for all the major publishers, illustrating such titles as Batman Detective, Hawkman, Starman, Superman Rebirth, Ironman, Hydra, Star Wars, Black Panther, and The JSA. He is a multi-award winning, NY Times bestselling illustrator for his painted work on The Fifth Beatle.
Dr. Lindsay Hays is the program scientist for the Astrobiology program and Mars Sample Return campaign lead scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters.
Dustin Fletcher is a specialty costumer for film and television focusing on the superhero and horror genres and produces high quality Actual Plays with Elder Eye Entertainment.
Kathy Hunter is a fiber artist, painter, costumer, musician, and technical support for the Kurt Hunter Marionettes. She is a seamstress with a great knowledge of fabrics, techniques, and color.
Andy Brown is a CSC associate cinematographer and award winning director. Brown's vast experience has allowed him to develop a keen eye for creating stunning images and thought-provoking stories.
Raymond Carr is an Atlanta based Jim Henson Company puppeteer who has traveled to every major city in North America and parts of Europe working on multi-million dollar productions.
Cady Coleman, a former NASA astronaut who flew twice on the space shuttle and spent six months on the International Space Station, coached Sandra Bullock in Gravity and played a space duet with Jethro Tull. Her book is called Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change.
Margaret Downey is best known at Dragon Con as the world's only friggatriskaidekaphobia treatment nurse. She developed the character in 1996. Downey has organized and implemented the Skeptics parade for 15 years. She is also a panelist at the Skeptrack and occasionally delivers presentations of interest to the Skeptic community.
Kurtis is known for his innovative solo marionette work. In 2008 he received an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence and in 2018 was awarded a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
Greg Keyes is the author of 30+ novels, from original works to licensed universes including Star Wars, Babylon 5, Pacific Rim, Godzilla, and The Elder Scrolls.
Dr. Audrey Martin is a planetary scientist who studies the composition of asteroids and is a collaborator on NASA's Lucy mission. She is also a Walkabout the Galaxy podcast co-host!
Alan J. Porter is a writer and podcaster. He has over 30 fiction and non-fiction book publishing credits and hundreds of magazine articles on multiple subjects.
Shadow Girls Cult, co-founded in 2018 by Cass Bray and Zane Exactly, is a queer shadow puppetry and projections duo based in Seattle, WA.
Matthew M. Walker (RezMonk) is the community director of Obsidian Brews: A Black Tabletop Experience. Walker, along with Obsidian Brews, has hosted panels and BIPOC gaming spaces at conventions nationwide.
Latoryah Alexander, known for her role as the puppeteer and voice of Kayla on Sesame Street, performed this year in Sesame Street the Musical at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
Melissa F. Olson is a novelist and comic book writer. She is best known for her 16 books in the Old World universe and the Project: Cryptid anthology from AHOY.
David Mack is an Emmy nominated, New York Times bestselling author and artist of Kabuki, writer of Daredevil, cover artist of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Jessica Jones, and Fight Club 2. He is the artist on Jessica Jones Netflix opening titles and Captain America: The Winter Soldier film titles.
Retired DoD analyst, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and lead designer for National Security Decision Making Game (geopolitical live-action roleplay). Outreach director - Connections USA, Co-founder of Connections Online.
New York Times bestselling author Todd J. McCaffrey has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey (his mother) on five Dragonriders of Pern novels and has written three Pern novels on his own.
Garrett Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager. Wang's other work includes Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, Into the West, Demon Island, Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (game), The Auteur Theory, Hundred Percent, Ivory Tower, Angry Cafe, and Flesh Suitcase.
Ches Cipriano (they/them) is a Filipino, Queer, first-generation American based in Minneapolis. They operate as a community cultivator, producer/organizer, radical joy seeker, and mixed-media collaborator.
Greg Grunberg is known for his role as X-wing pilot Snap Wexley in Star Wars, and roles in Star Trek, A Star is Born, and alongside Al Pacino in the Barry Levinson film Paterno. Additionally, he has held series regular roles on shows Heroes, Castle Rock, Lost, Alias, and Felicity.
DJ for the Doctor Who Ball since 2018, Stranger Things prom and Georgia Aquarium since 2019, and the past two years of the Open Casket goth party!
One of the most notable dark-wave bands internationally, The Crüxshadows' motto is "live, love, be, believe," and it serves as a reminder that while The Crüxshadows may write catchy songs, the band has depth that extends beyond the dance floor.
Goth rock band lead by Dusty Gannon (AKA Goth Dad) that plays music that pays homage to horror with a serious message.
Aurelio Voltaire is often described as a modern day renaissance man. He is a singer, performer, author, creator of comic books, films, animation, toys, and home decor.
WilSun is a rising electronic music act based in Atlanta, Georgia thought up by Wilson McKay. Recently has had a top ten release on Beatport and currently planning a summer tour.
Robert Allsopp trained in theatre design, prior to working as a costume-prop maker. He has run his own business in London making costumes, props, and puppets for film, theatre, and television for over 30 years. He is known for working on Doctor Who and on Ridley Scott movies .
Trejo has starred in dozens of films including Desperado, Heat, the From Dusk Till Dawn series, Con Air, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the Spy Kids movies, Machete, Machete Kills, the Bad Ass trilogy, Dead Again in Tombstone, and co-starred in Death Race 2, Death Race: Inferno, and more.
Elemental Cosplay is a scientist IRL and has been a cosplayer for five years. As an award winning cosplayer and conservation biologist, her favorite is Captain Planet.
Jake Quatt is a multidisciplinary artist who is currently illustrating graphic novels with Madhat press, animating for the Science Museum of Minnesota, and puppeteering with Heart of the Beast Theatre.
Gordon Cormier appeared as a recurring role in Stephen King's limited mini series The Stand and has voiced numerous animation roles. Cormier most recently appeared as Aang in the Netflix live action series Avatar: The Last Airbender. When Cormier is not acting, you will more than likely find him at a local skateboard park, or skating around Vancouver streets.
Matt Yang King is known for his roles as Appa and Momo in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat 1, Marty Mantle on Riverdale, Lutz and Alan Ripple in Pixar's Elemental, and Kerry Eurodyne in Cyberpunk 2077. He has lent his talents to franchises such as The Witcher, GI Joe, Transformers, Batman, Justice League, and Love, Death, and Robots.
Nerdy, geeky DJ and veteran cosplayer with fingers in filk, goth, 80s, 90s, dance, EBM, industrial, and synthpop, plus whatever else comes along 🙂 #thatdjspider is just about everywhere online.
DJ Phasim has been deejaying since his teens and has deejayed at bars and clubs in Toronto, Boston, Richmond, and New Zealand! He has deejayed at various Dragon Con parties since 2018 and provides a mix of current and classic hiphop, house, dance, and remixes to keep you entertained all night!
DJ R. Lane is a tech house and deep house DJ with a focus on remixes of current and classic popular songs bringing good vibes and house music energy.
Dr. Scott Edgington is a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He specializes in atmospheric physics and chemistry of the outer planets and spacecraft operations. He currently works as a science engineering liaison on the Mars Perseverance mission.
II Tone DEF is an open format DJ duo designed to bring 'feel good music and vibes' to the masses. Live mashups and remixes across multi-genres provide the audience with a fresh vibrant experience every time.
Sam Lewis is an actor, poet, vocalist, and recently a puppeteer. In the early 2000s, he found a vintage Black Americana marionette in an attic, which began his puppetry journey.
Get ready to dance away your last HP to the bass pumping, nostalgia driven, fun fest that is Nori Noir. Original tracks and remixes of some of your favorite games and show tunes, along with some of the best mixes to give you those "best night of my life" vibes. Put on your +5 dancing shoes, drink some water, and bring your booty to the dance floor!
Goofy acoustic nerd rock for wizards, witches, gamers, Jedi, hobbits, Time Lords, LARPers, Browncoats, SCAdians, and every manner of hoopy frood. You will be positively gruntled by our non-sequitur nonsense and musical mayhem.
DJ Limit Break is a Twitch partner from Chicago, IL. He usually performs several nights a week at nightclubs within the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV realm, but he's traveled all the way from Eorzea to spin live at Dragon Con again this year! Bring your cactuars and get ready to beesknees!
Sarah Frechette is a touring puppeteer, teaching artist, and stop-motion animation fabricator. She mentored with master puppeteer Albrecht Roser at his studio in Buoch, Germany and has toured internationally.
James Mulligan has been a Disney artist for over two decades, with properties featuring everything from the classics to recent favorite Frozen. His design, fine art, and gallery work includes Playboy, Coca-Cola, Fox, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, the Chuck Jones family, Marvel, DC, Lexus, and the Elvis Presley Estate.
With a repertoire ranging from Celtic, singer-songwriter, filk, comedy, and the occasional Rush cover, Beth Patterson has multiple tricks up her sleeve. Armed with her eight-stringed Irish bouzouki and saucy banter, one can expect the unexpected.
Rogue is the lead singer, song writer, front-man, and founder of the band the Cruxshadows. With close to 200 song-writing credits, over 20 CDs, several chart-topping hits in Europe and the U.S., and well over a thousand live performances all over the globe.
You want a Party where you hear what you remember from the soundtrack of your life? That's what you'll hear at one of DJP's Events! Come one, come all. Everybody's welcome to the party!
Chris Spotts is a nationally recognized miniature painter and teacher. Teaching at several large conventions and competing at a national level, he runs The Spotted Painter social media.
Wendy Carson, founder of the Chattanooga Vintage Dancers, teaches sewing, hair and makeup, dance, history, and etiquette workshops from the late 1700's to the 1960's.
Cyn is an avid lover of stories and good storytelling. Her YouTube channel was born from her burning desire to talk about them with others who share that same passion.
Kelly Fast is the acting planetary defense officer in the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters, which plans the response to the asteroid impact hazard.
Eloy Lasanta is an RPG creator (i.e. Part-Time Gods 2E, Pip System). He has also contributed to other TTRPGs like the Firefly RPG, Into the Motherlands, and video games like Subterrain: Mines of Titan and Dream Tactics. Eloy has undoubtedly left his mark on the tabletop and video game industry.
Daniel Alexander Lyman, a versatile trans-male actor, has portrayed creatures and characters on The Walking Dead, Legacies, Lodge 49, and recently Francis Ford Coppola's highly anticipated film Megalopolis.
Damon Young is the producer of Mr. Damon's Shadow Puppet Theater, teaching artist at the Center for Puppetry Arts, musician for The Changelings, and hand shadow puppeteer on Marvel's Hawkeye.
Dr. Pepper is an astrophysicist, a professor at Lehigh University, a program scientist at NASA headquarters, and an expert on the discovery of planets and the search for extraterrestrial life.
Scored the R* videogame Max Payne as well as music for Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto V Online: Arena War, Cyberpunk 2077, and Ultrakill. Have released tracks with Nine Inch Nails, Lamb of God, Jpegmafia, and Ghostmane. Played most major US and EU festivals including Coachella, Primavera, and Hellfest.
Herlinger is a ventriloquist known for his irreverent and unique approach. He has performed at shows including The Magic Castle, Flappers, Tomorrow Show, and the LA Guild of Puppetry.
We are a three-piece national touring Irish-influenced band that plays Irish standards, originals, and various other types of music in a bluegrass Irish style. We have a unique blend of instrumentation with feet drums, banjo, guitar, saxophone, upright bass, and at times mandolin, harmonica, and even a hurdy-gurdy.
Solofa Fatu Jr. is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he is a one-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time World Tag Team Champion, and one-time WWE Tag Team Champion.
Since 2013, Steel Samurai has been melting faces with its mashup-driven powerhouse synth-metal, best described as an atomic collision between iconic film and TV soundtracks, classic rock riffage, and the deepest-cut video game music.
We are a musical duo who perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult, combining vocal harmonies and clever lyrics with ukulele, guitar, and foot percussion (like a two-person one-man band). Our interactive, theatrical shows straddle the line between concert and theater.
Five-piece folk punk band from Newnan, GA. Music styles include Irish, Gypsy, pirate, Polka, sea shanties, bluegrass, Southern Gothic, and who knows what else! This high-energy group is always the life of the party!
Traditional and modern Celtic and pirate music performed on guitar, mandolin, bodhran, pennywhistle, and fiddle.
A six-piece full rock band with music that ranges from nouveau Celtic to dark circus and features high-energy main-stage vibes, thumping beats, and strong vocal harmonies. We will transport you to the distant past and connect deeply with you in the here and now with all our nerdy hearts.
Gil Gerard has starred in numerous successful made-for-television movies as well as feature films. He is best-known to SF audiences as Capt. William "Buck" Rogers in the SF TV series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. His other roles include several movie and TV series appearances including: Airport '77, Beyond, Bone Eater, Ghost Town, and many more.
The Barehead Bards bring traditional Irish and Scottish pub songs and fiddle tunes, Lord of the Rings covers, comedic banter, and audience participation. Instruments of the band include fiddle, tin whistle, guitar, and bouzuki.
Jeff Ello (aka "jello") is a filmmaker/technologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of the latest technology and techniques for filmmakers, CG artists, and content creators of all kinds. He develops solutions for visual effects, high-volume video production, and live streaming.
With the sounds of late 70s funk and disco, combined with a nerdy lyrical sensibility, Raspberry Pie have been packing dance floors since 2015. Their tasty grooves and singalong choruses can turn any venue into a dance hall, with audience members becoming active participants in a full body funk experience.
Steranko is a graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, magician, publisher, and film production illustrator, best known for his work on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Steranko earned lasting acclaim for his innovations in sequential art during the Silver Age, particularly his infusion of surrealism, op art, and graphic design into the medium.
Fabrizio De Tommaso is an artist from Brindisi, Italy. He collaborates as a cover artist for some Sergio Bonelli Editore properties like Dylan Dog and Morgan Lost, Cyberpunk for Dark Horse, and Something is Killing the Children for Boom Studio. He has recently begun a collaboration with Marvel.
Jeff Hays is a voice actor with tremendous range, a producer and narrator of over 200 audiobooks, a musician and composer, and founding CEO of Soundbooth Theater.
Chuck Parker is a filk singer and songwriter of original slice-o-life geek tunes. He is a solo performer at cons in the mid-Atlantic. He has performed at Dragon Con with the Blibbering Humdingers since 2014 and been a part of virtual Dragon Con "Fresh Filks" since 2020.
Christine Taylor-Butler is the author of more than 95 books for children. She was named a Visiting Scholar at MIT focused on children's literature.
Darrell C. Hazelrig is a founding member of the experimental puppetry film collective New Puppet Order. In 2020, Hazelrig joined with Eric Fullerton to create YouTube channel Eric and Darrell.
Matt Nitchie is a local Atlanta actor, puppeteer, and co-host for Dragon Con's own Late Night Puppet Slam.
Nancy Northcott has published 17 books, a mix of science fiction, fantasy, and romance. She has taught college courses on science fiction, fantasy, and society.
Heather Boddy (she/her) is a size-inclusive fitness professional in NYC who creates safe spaces for nerds to geek out while they work out.
John de Lancie is known for his portrayal as Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard. He has previously appeared on Stargate SG-1. De Lancie has voiced Discord on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and characters in multiple video games and shows during his career.
Jonathan Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.
Jennifer Greco is an astronomer turned science educator. She works as a member of the science faculty and the STEM coordinator at St. Ursula Academy.
Luke Gygax is the son of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax and Founder of Gary Con®, a memorial convention held annually in Lake Geneva in honor of his father, Gary Gygax. Luke grew up at the gaming table with the designers that built the foundation of the RPG industry. He played the iconic character Melf, aka Prince Brightflame.
Founder of the Flying Nuggets LLC, a non profit in Atlanta with the mission to inspire excellence in STEAM programming through competition and instruction for k-12.
Omega Jones is an actor, tabletop GM, designer, streamer, and host. He has worked with companies including Wizards of the Coast and World of Darkness and created the theme song for Critter Hug, a Critical Role talk show. Recent credits include Heroes' Feast and Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!
JP Karliak is the voice of Morph (X-Men '97), Green Goblin (Spidey and His Amazing Friends), the Joker (Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League), N.Tropy (Crash Bandicoot), Kozo Fuyutsuki, and Boss Baby (both Netflix). He advocates for LGBTQIA+ voice talent as founder of Queer Vox and is co-founder of NerdsVote.
Ed Larson is founder and CEO of Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers, Inc. TDSX manufactures autonomous underwater vehicles and was founded to compete in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
Gates McFadden is best known for portraying the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher in the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.
Brent Spiner is best known for his portrayal of the beloved android, Data, on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.
Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut is an American actor and writer who has worked on Broadway, film, and television. She is best known for her role as Ensign Sidney La Forge in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.
Hunter is a writer and director working in Birmingham, Alabama. He, with his partners Brian Pace, David Woods, and Phil Sutton, run Obvious Notion a multimedia production company.
Brittany Horn has worked in the film industry for over a decade in various roles and departments. From small indie films to Marvel blockbusters, she has seen it all!
Todd Stashwick is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as Dale Malloy on The Riches and Theodore Deacon on 12 Monkeys. He played Captain Liam Shaw in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.
One of the #1 video game voices in the world, Fred Tatasciore is the animated voice of the Hulk since 2008. He has done over 30 episodes of The Family Guy and American Dad. His IMDB page lists over 450 credits, including Soldier: 76 in Overwatch.
Nathan Fillion is an actor and voice actor known for his role as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle, and his earlier portrayal of the lead role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its feature film continuation, Serenity. He recently starred in ABC's The Rookie.
Actor and writer, Catherine Tate is well-known in the UK and internationally for a diversity of work in television, film, and on the stage - in particular, for the award winning The Catherine Tate Show and her roles on Doctor Who and The Office.
Kris Kersey is a passionate maker and cosplayer who shares his knowledge on 3D printing and maker projects through his YouTube channels, Kersey Fabrications, and The OASIS Project.
C Mantis has a million views on Royal Road and 2,000 rating on Amazon. Mantis knew nothing at the start and has taken a unique path as a fantasy writer.
Nicholas Eftimiades is a professor at Penn State University, Homeland Security Program. He retired from a 34 year government career that included employment in the CIA, the Department of State, and Defense Intelligence Agency. Eftimiades has appeared as an expert before Congress and on dozens of news articles and shows.
Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times bestselling author best known for his Star Wars novels I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron.
Hawthorn & Holly are a pop punk band that plays songs about Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Dr. Who, and other fandoms. Started in 2007 from Charlotte, NC, Leah Schroeder and Christie Mowery weave gorgeous harmonies with Eddie Mowery on guitars, while Dave Beaucar of MD slaps the bass.
Game designer with 27 years of experience in the video game industry, most recently on Call of Duty with Activision.
David Afsharirad is an editor at Baen Books. He is the editor of several volumes of short fiction and the author of many published short stories.
USA Today bestselling author of multi-layer, character-driven, full-spectrum science fiction and fantasy, Michael J. Allen has infused his quirky sense of humor into 30 plus published works.
Griffin has written stories across the SF&F field, from hard SF, space opera, dark fantasy, to zombie fiction. He has short stories set in different universes coming out in 2024.
Kaitlin Bevis is the author of the Daughters of Zeus series. She has also written a young adult horror novel called Blood and Other Matter and a handful of short stories.
David Boop is the author of The Drowned Horse Chronicle Volume 1 and She Murdered Me with Science. He also edits and writes short fiction, comics, and screenplays.
Bill Budington is a longtime activist, cryptography enthusiast, and a senior staff technologist on EFF's Public Interest Technology team. He is the lead developer of Cover Your Tracks and apkeep.
ChelseaBytes, a distinguished Twitch partner, host, and computer scientist, serves as a lead for the Twitch Unity Women's Guild, contributing to the empowerment of women in the gaming space.
Pamela Cole is a costumier who graduated from Goodman Theater in Chicago over 50 years ago and continues to work with dance, opera, movies, museums, reenactors, in the Atlanta area.
Magic lover Katie Cross has published more than 50 titles in YA fantasy because she likes to hang out with dragons in wild places.
Brian Duckwitz is the author of over 20 products for tabletop RPGs. He has also worked in the video game industry as a narrative designer and writer for Pixagon Games.
Galactic Empire is the galaxy's foremost instrumental Star Wars cosplay heavy metal John Williams tribute band.
Chesley Award nominee, Tom Fleming has done art for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, WWE, Heavy Metal Magazine, Magic the Gathering, World of Warcraft, and Iron Maiden covers.
Barr Foxx is an award winning cosplay artist and television/film producer. His national brand, Cosplay Your Way, encourages individuals to embrace the art of cosplay through imagery and film.
Stacey Gordon is a puppeteer based in Phoenix, Arizona, where she runs Puppet Pie, a puppetry arts studio and puppet ice cream truck. She is the puppeteer for Julia on Sesame Street and works with and advocates for neurodivergent communities.
Dr. Matthew Guariglia is a senior policy analyst focusing on government surveillance and police technology at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is a visiting scholar at Emory University.
Jarvis Hammer is a drag king, comedian, and star of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula season 5 (AMC+/Shudder).
May Hemmer has been making her way around the country as well as internationally. This 2017 Miss Montreal Burlesque is not only a burlesque performer, but a cosplayer.
Dr. Christian Hubicki is a tenured robotics professor and a castaway on CBS' Survivor: David vs. Goliath. Hubicki's research in controlling walking robots has been honored internationally.
Bethanne Kim is a publisher with Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond and a writer in the 1632-verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness, zombies, and the U.S. Constitution.
José is a grassroots advocacy organizer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he works with local groups that advocate against police, workplace, border, and carceral surveillance.
Brianna Marie: co-owner of Dungeons and Randomness podcast. Behind-the-scenes wizard with a passion for D&D, anime, and obscure horror films. Excel queen and organizational guru keeping the podcast in line. A true nerd with diverse interests and indispensable skills.
Starting Dungeons and Randomness 12 years ago, Jason has been a professional dungeon master since then. He has hosted hundreds of sessions of D&D and many other tabletop games.
A fantasy author, scientist, and national champion martial artist with a master's degree in applied psychology, Jeffrey Nix writes the web serial, Impractical Magic.
Dr. Chateé Omísadé Richardson is a keynote speaker and panelist on his(her)story, African spirituality, African futurism, diversity/culture, paranormal, and is featured in two documentaries.
J.P. "Nixia" Valentine has penned bestsellers across the LitRPG and progression fantasy spectrum, including The Nothing Mage, This Quest is Bullshit!, Dungeon Devotee, and The Stargazer's War.
Jessica Wade is an executive editor at the Ace and Berkley imprints of Penguin Random House.
Christian Waggoner is known worldwide for his Star Wars Reflection series paintings. He has been working with Lucasfilm over 12 years. His uniquely enhanced, photo-realistic style makes viewers wonder how he achieves such detail with a mere brush and canvas.
Dai-Shihan Roy Wilkinson has been training in Ninjutsu for over 40 years, and is one of the most senior master instructors of this art in the western world. He is ranked Judan Kugyo and is chief instructor of the Atlanta Bujinkan Dojo, the original Ninjutsu dojo in the Western Hemisphere.
Award winning Trisha J. Wooldridge (child-friendly T.J. Wooldridge), writes The 27 Kingdoms, and her first collection of short fiction and poetry, Where Monsters Pray comes out June 2024.
Chris Donio is a specialty costumer for film and TV. His portfolio includes some of your favourite superhero movies. His most recently work being Blue Beetle and Shazam 2.
The Pan Librarian Wizard, Alexander Gideon, is an expert in most things from writing great fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, to High Magick, to looking like you own the world!
Aron Siegel, producer and sound mixer, whose work includes The Unwanted, Implanted, Thor: Ragnarok, DC's Black Lightning, Walking Dead, and Vampire Diaries, also mixed portions of Trek fan film Axanar.
Ken Applegate is the owner and DJ of Mad Hatter Music and Crafts. He will be the DJ for the Kids Dance hosted by the Kids Track.
Dave Cook is a local illustrator of various talents. You may have seen his work as the official poster artist for the Atlanta Rollergirls, in promotional art for Netherworld Haunted House, or gotten a zombie portrait at Dragon Con in past years.
Dr. Addie Dove is a planetary scientist and professor at UCF with a passion for space and science communication. She is a cohost on the Walkabout the Galaxy podcast.
Greg Leatherman is an award winning game designer for the TTRPGs Glitter Hearts and The Mystery Business, and is a founding member of the actual play podcast Very Random Encounters.
Bendy Mitchell is the head of Obsidian Brews: A Black Table Top Experience. Mitchell and their fellow brewers have hosted panels & BIPOC gaming spaces at conventions nationwide.
Meredith Rose, a senior policy counsel at Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy organization in Washington, DC, where she focuses on tech, copyright, fandom, and music, is also a SFFH author.
A mixture of rock, filk, and a whole lot of neurodivergence: one person, one guitar. When literature, music, and mayhem collide, Harlequin's Shadow is somewhere in the middle of it all.
Stephen Green is an artist and penciller residing in Savannah, Georgia. Despite various rumors, he did not attend school there. His work has been featured in Dark Horse Presents, The Legacy of Luther Strode, Hellboy and The B.P.R.D., and Lobster Johnson.
Jody has written numerous titles including: Mother Panic, Supergirl, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy, Star Wars, Web of Black Widow, Stranger Things, Critical Role, StarCraft, Doctor Who, Orphan Black, Star Trek, X-Files, and Faith. Her upcoming works include: Star Wars Yoda, Assassins Apprentice, and Stranger Things Tales from Hawkins #2.
Robert Madison II (MadDrRob) is the director of gaming and map maker of Obsidian Brews: A Black Tabletop Experience. Together they host panels and BIPOC gaming spaces at conventions nationwide.
Atlanta's own Eisner award winning comic artist, graphic novelist, and screenwriter, Bob Burden, created the world's first surrealist superhero, Flaming Carrot, leading to Mystery Men, which was made into a feature film. Burden has also successfully adapted Gumby for the comic book medium.
Jennifer Gilley is an artist whose work focuses on body arts including tattoos, prosthetics, special effects, body painting, and illustrating. She owns and operates Sundog Art Studios & Tattoos.
Scott Harris is the consulting director of the Charleston Planetarium and an Atlanta-based planetary geologist who is a leading researcher in the fields of meteorites, petrology, and hypervelocity impacts.
Paul Mounts is an artist who has worked as a colorist on comics including Fantastic Four, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Ultimates. Mounts was one of Marvel's most prolific comic book-themed trading card colorists in the early 1990s.
Since issue one, Andy Price has been the lead pencil/ink artist for the incredibly successful and record breaking My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic book from IDW Publishing. MLP broke the 100,000 pre-sale mark, the first independent book to beat out DC or Marvel in nine years!
Chris Ryall is co-founder and publisher at Syzygy Publishing, writer/co-creator of Zombies vs Robots, Onyx, Groom Lake, The Hollows, and Dreamweaver. He has written Transformers, Rom Spaceknight, Mars Attacks, The Mighty Marvel Calendar Book, Origins of Marvel Comics, and was an executive producer on Netflix's Locke & Key.
CEO and EIC of Highburn Studios, Michael Watkins is a creator and illustrator with over 20 years experience in the comics industry. He is known as creator of Guardians and for his work on Transformers and Sonic the Hedgehog. Additionally, he is also a voice actor and avid martial artist.
Ayla Almee is co-director of Antipode Geek Bellydance. Almee has entertained thousands with stage productions, and workshops on modern and traditional Silk Road culture: cuisine, fashion, and dance.
Jason Behr first starred in Roswell, for which he was twice nominated for a Saturn Award, followed by roles in the films The Shipping News and the American remake of the Japanese horror film The Grudge. Behr also had recurring roles in the television series Dawson's Creek and Breakout Kings.
Leigh is the co-host of 50 Days of Dragon Con podcast. She is the one with questions, makes double - or triple - entendres without meaning to, and then gets embarrassed.
Dr. Joshua Colwell is chair and Pegasus professor of physics at the University of Central Florida. He hosts Walkabout the Galaxy, the fun astronomy podcast.
Eugene Cordero is an actor, writer, and comedian best known for his roles in Star Trek: Lower Decks and the Disney+ series Loki. Cordero's film roles include the comedy-drama The Kings of Summer, the monster adventure Kong: Skull Island, and the crime drama The Mule.
Majandra Delfino is best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on Roswell, and as Andi on the CBS sitcom Friends with Better Lives.
Brendan Fehr is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying Michael Guerin in the WB television series Roswell, and for portraying lab tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami. Fehr also played Jared Booth in the Fox television series Bones.
Zayne Geisler is a professional artist and cross-skilled craftsperson with over 10 years of leather working and sewing skills. They were a professional leather working teacher for several years.
Kali Holder is a professional poker of dead things and zombie prevention expert. As a veterinary pathologist for the National Zoo, she has decapitated more species than anyone you know.
Mike Krome is an Australian artist whose work has been featured in children's books, magazines, computer games, film promotions, and comics. His work can be seen on the covers of Dynamite, Zenescope Entertainment, Image, Coffin Comics, Valiant Comics, BOOM! Studios, and Rothic Novels.
Caroline La Porta has been building costumes for 20+ years, including with The Radio City Rockettes, the New York City Ballet, Broadway and touring productions, several feature films, and TV.
Matthew Lewis rose to fame as Neville Longbottom in all eight Harry Potter™ films. He went on to star in Wasteland and appeared in Me Before You. Lewis's TV credits include Bluestone 42, The Syndicate, Ripper Street, and Happy Valley. His live stage performances include Our Boys, Verdict, and Unfaithful.
Shannon Nicole Locke is an award winning narrator with an ear for accents, a knack for comedy, and a dedication to bringing the beating heart of beloved characters to life.
Jack Monkey provides special makeup effects and creature creation for film and TV. Recent credits include Crimson Cove and Exorcist: Believer. She is currently the makeup department head for Netherworld.
Tawny Newsome is an American musician, comedian, and actor best known for playing Chelsea Leight-Leigh on Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, co-starring in Space Force and the third season of Brockmire, and co-hosting the podcast Yo, Is This Racist?. She voices one of the main characters, Beckett Mariner, on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Dustin Nguyen is an American comic artist whose body of work, for the past 10 years, includes flagship titles for both DC Comics and WildStorm.
Jennifer May Nickel is a costume designer for film and television. Recent credits include Gotham Knights, Legacies, and Containment for CW. Nickel has also designed for Netflix, Hulu, and more.
Rae Pendergrass is a comedian and edutainer who has worked with everyone from National Lampoon to National Geographic. She is also the producer of the Solve for X Variety Show.
Stefan Price is a professional artist and maker with 27+ years in film, entertainment, and themed attractions. He founded Roundtable Productions as a props and special effects company.
Lezli Robyn is executive editor/associate publisher of Arc Manor and an author. Since her first sales to Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Analog, Robyn has won two awards.
Hailing from Orlando, Florida, The Gekkos are the greatest goth nerd polka band on planet Earth. Comprised of brothers Jared on accordion and Zack on keytar, The Gekkos are sure to get you pumped and ready to get spooky and weird!
Daisy Viktoria is a costume designer specializing in corsets and fairytale gowns. She has a background in corsetry and historical clothing, as well as modern and fantasy fashion.
Nick Wechsler is an American actor best known for his roles as Kyle Valenti on the WB teen drama series Roswell, and as Jack Porter on the ABC drama television series Revenge.
Jodie Whittaker is best known for portraying the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Beth Latimer in Broadchurch, Adult Life Skills, and Wired. She will be appearing on Sunday only.
From 2001 to 2011, Bonnie Wright played Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter series, where she developed an interest in directing. She went on to received a BA in film and television from London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Wright's production company, Bon Bon Lumière, was founded in 2012.
Mitch Stoltz is EFF's IP litigation director. Stoltz litigates copyright and trademark cases that impact free speech, defending the rights of software developers, website owners, nonprofits, and individual internet users.
Solo singer-songwriter, acoustic, electric, and all points in-between. More rock 'n' roll than Renn-Faire. 10 official releases, including a five song EP tribute to What We Do in The Shadows and 20 years of experience performing.
Rich Gatz is a lawyer and cyber insurance and data privacy expert with over a decade of experience helping companies and individuals deal with the most challenging technological and privacy related legal risk.
Starchy Grant is the technical operations director at EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
These are the queers of Clearly Guilty! They're purdy, nerdy, and a little bit dirty. They do original music to celebrate those who feel underrepresented in fandom. Come find your anthem!
Andrew Aydin is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner. Aydin is co-author with Rep. John Lewis of March and Run, co-writer of The March, VR experience for TIME Inc, and has written characters such as Captain America and Batman for Marvel and DC Comics.
Kavura, along with her husband Nayr, host the StarPodTrek and StarPodLog podcasts. She produces Ladies Trek Library and is in several Star Trek fan clubs and fan films.
Nayr, along with his wife Kavura, host the StarPodLog and StarPodTrek podcasts. Having attended, as well as presented, at literally hundreds of conventions, his panels are engaging, entertaining, and informative.
Dr. Padfield is a former Indiana state representative, a business professor, privacy advocate, consultant for law enforcement, public speaker, and teaches graduate courses in data analytics.
Charles Blue is a science writer and science communicator focusing on astronomy, astrophysics, engineering, and geophysics. He also hosts the bluethesciencedude feed on TikTok.
Andy Belanger works as a freelance cartoonist/illustrator. He does work in the mainstream comic market, plus a wide variety of work for the Canadian Film and Television industry. In the mainstream comic market, Belanger has worked for such comic publishers as DC Comics, Wildstorm, Devil's Due, and Boom!
The Brobdingnagian Bards are back for a Dragon Con reunion! They take traditional Irish and Scottish folk songs, mix it up with Lord of the Rings music, and create a unique brand of Celtic Filk.
Steve Horton is the New York Times bestselling writer of Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams, which won two Eisners for art & coloring.
Cass Marks is a sci-fi filmmaker/comic book artist who loves astronomy. He is passionate about science outreach and sharing the marvels of the universe alongside his collaborator Alexandra Yep.
Anya Martin is a writer, co-hosts The Outer Dark podcast, co-chairs The Outer Dark Symposium, and believes fervently that weird fiction is vital to the 21st century.
Paul is the original artist on Mortal Kombat, TRON, PacMan Plus, Super PacMan, Professor PacMan, Tapper, Spy Hunter, WACKO, Satan's Hollow, Midnight Marauders, Time Killers, PopCap's Peggle and Bejewled II, Demolition Man pinball, Legends of Valhalla pinball, creative director at Eagle Games, and currently working on a seventh Nintendo Switch game.
Alex Yep is a poet turned astronomer working at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She teaches physics and astronomy, researches young star clusters, and directs the Bradley Observatory.
Eddie McClintock starred for five years on Syfy network's Warehouse 13. He appeared in a recurring role on Bones, as well as MacGyver, Supergirl, Agents of Shield, Backstrom, and Modern Family.
The Palmetto Knights, the Southeast's premier medieval combat sports association, returns for their 10th year to Dragon Con for the event's celebrated Dragon Cup Tournament! The Knights bring a full contact, unchoreographed, medieval combat tournament. Competitors from around the country will battle it out in duels, group battles, and outrance (MMA in armor) for your entertainment.
Cheralyn "Cher" Lambeth is a professional costume, prop, and puppet builder, whose work includes feature films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Hunger Games), television (Dinosaurs!, Homeland), live/interactive properties (StarTrek: The Experience, Avenue Q), video games (Fortnite: Battle Royale), and books (Haunted Theaters of the Carolinas, Introduction to Puppetry Arts).
A nationally touring performer with more than a decade of professional stand-up comedy experience, Mikey Mason is a ball of contagious enthusiasm who makes songs about role-playing games, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, cats, and the general experience of being a geek.
Veronica Dashiell is half of the husband and wife puppetry team Felt Nerdy. They have been performing at conventions and local theatres across the Southeast for over 10 years together.
Charles is half of the husband and wife puppetry team of Felt Nerdy. They have been performing together for over 10 years at conventions across the Southeast.
Tony Moy is an international artist known for forgotten history WWII comic The 4Forty2nd about the most decorated Japanese American regiment in US history. He creates artwork for Marvel Snaps, D&D, X-files, and more. He teaches watercolor and streams on Twitch and Paint Bros.
Kurt Opsahl is associate general counsel for cybersecurity and civil liberties policy for the Filecoin Foundation. Opsahl has worked almost 30 years on technology law and policy, representing internet startups in the dot-com boom, protecting digital rights at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and now focusing on protecting the decentralized web.
Marissa Cowart has been the assistant costume designer for Gotham Knights, Legacies, and Step Up: High Water.
Chris Hamer is an artist based out of Georgia. He is working for Scout comics on his creator-owned book The Adventures of Byron, as well as variant covers for Scout releases. He has had work and is being published in the upcoming Hannibal: Artbook by Printed in Blood.
Amanda Hamon is a senior designer working on Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. An award winning tabletop game designer and developer with more than a decade of experience, Hamon leads the creation of Fifth Edition books from conception through publication and beyond.
Dr. Valerie Hampton, historical archaeologist, author, game maker, paranormal researcher, and Indie film producer, speaks on the intersection between popular fantasy and history, and has numerous publications.
Todd Lockwood's illustrations have appeared on bestselling novels, magazines, collectible card games, and fantasy RPGs, honored with numerous industry awards, including appearances in Spectrum and other illustration annuals. Lockwood's novel, The Summer Dragon, was published by DAW Books in 2016, and his art collection, Found Worlds, in 2023. Visit http://www.toddlockwood.com
Gwen Pearson is a professional entomologist. She also has worked as a freelance science writer for WIRED Science, the Washington Post, Science, and other news outlets.
T. Alexander Stangroom is chief operations officer at the ENNIE award winning TTRPG publisher Kobold Press. Stangroom is a TTRPG designer whose credits include titles by Modiphius and Wizards of the Coast, as well as a professional GM with over two decades of experience.
HaiNaNu "nooligan" Saulque is an artist, comic creator, and graphic designer based in Sacramento, Ca. From the cartoons of his youth to films he missed by decades, from golden age comics to classic newspaper strips, you will find a creator who has immersed himself in what he loves.
Jaime Castle is a #1 Audible bestselling author, including The Luna Missile Crisis, Dead Acre, Cold as Hell, The Buried Goddess Saga, Web of Eyes, Jeff the Game Master, and more.
Amy Chu is a comics and TV writer for Netflix, Disney, Marvel, and DC. She wrote the Turning Red and Carmilla: The First Vampire graphic novels and two episodes of the anime series DOTA: Dragon's Blood. Chu's comics include Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Kiss, Deadpool, Spider-Man Noir, and Doctor Strange.
Jonathan Clary has 13 years of experience with leatherwork: teaching, selling leather and supplies, and consulting. Currently he teaches private classes, and is a consultant for small leather businesses.
Joanna Estep is the critically acclaimed illustrator of such titles as The Fantastic Four, X-Men, New Mutants, Spiderverse (Marvel Comics), Bitch Planet (Image), Death Head (Dark Horse), and The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Boom!/Archaia). Her work has earned her the S.P.A.C.E. Prize, and nominations for Eisner and Harvey awards.
Juan Gedeon started working as an assistant at an art studio at 19, moved to Mexico at 23 to work in animation, and started working in American comics at 25. He is known for his short run on Venom for Marvel and created The Jurassic League for DC.
Bill Golliher has been an artist and writer for Archie Comics for over 30 years and has worked on scripting and illustrating a diverse set of titles and covers for the company. Golliher lives in the southeast and is excited to be at Dragon Con.
For Marvel, Bob drew Spider-Man, Thor, What If, Squadron Supreme, The Avengers, and Emperor Doom. He co-created the West Coast Avengers. He was a Marvel editor in 1978. At Valiant, he wrote and drew Shadowman and created Armed and Dangerous. For DC, he wrote and drew Batman/Joker graphic novels.
Leo Leibelman has worked in the comics and film/tv industry for nearly 30 years for many companies and has worked on dozens of films and tv shows.
Astrid Lundberg, also known as @OddPride, is a science communicator known for her short-form videos demystifying evolution and paleontology for a general audience. In 2023, she gave a short series of talks at Binghamton University on the accessibility of science in the digital age. She has also worked as a scriptwriter for SciShow.
Mostafa Moussa is a 25 year veteran of the comic book industry. Over his career he has worked for Marvel, DC, Image, Top Cow, Dark Horse, Hasbro, IDW, Mad Cave, Dynamite, Action Lab, Coffin, Zenescope, and many other publishers. Check out more of his work at: www.MostafaINK.net
Lan Pitts was born in Atlanta, now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he writes comics and is a staff writer for GameSpot. He loves wrestling, The Simpsons, and 1980s' animation. He is probably best known for his work on BOOM!'s WWE series and his tokusatsu-based comic, BEAST HEART! Strikers.
Benny Powell is a publisher, writer, and artist most known for the hit White Widow comic and upcoming spin-off I Make Boys Cry. He is also the creator and writer for Wayward Legends, Darchon, AMPED, Duel Identity, Wayward Sons, Markiplier, and dozens more.
Madeleine Roux is the New York Times bestselling author of the Asylum series and over 20 novels for adults, teens, and children.
Ashley Ruhl, 13 year veteran of the video game industry, has credits in game design, cinematics, and writing. She is currently the narrative director on Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Jeremy Whitley is a comic book writer and the creator of Princeless and Raven Pirate Princess, the writer for Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp and Titan's Sea of Thieves series, as well as a frequent contributor to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Derek Yaniger is a toothless hillbilly that has got a way long history of scratchin' out art for lots of king-sized bigwigs like Marvel Comics and Cartoon Network. But nowadays he strictly digs the gigs that let him beat his own bongos.
Art Director Samantha Avila's credits include Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Our Flag Means Death, and Westworld.
Tristan Gibbon is a founding member of the evergreen comedy show Botched: A D&D Podcast. He also produces the D&D one-shot podcast Dragon Night Adventure Friends.
Known for his early roles in Smallville and Flash Gordon, Eric Johnson has appeared in Vikings, American Gods, and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. Johnson also has roles in the video games Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Assassins Creed: Valhalla, and the upcoming game Star Wars: Outlaws.
Kristin Kreuk returns to The CW in the drama Burden of Truth. After her first role on Edgemont, she scored the title role of the television movie Snow White, and landed the role of Lana Lang on Smallville. Kreuk also starred in and helped produce Beauty and The Beast.
Ross Marquand is an American actor that has appeared on film, stage, and television. He is best known for portraying the role of Aaron on The Walking Dead. His voice acting talents can be heard in the likes of Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and American Dad.
Shellie Schmals, Director of Field Marketing at Allied Global Marketing, Co-President of Georgia Production Partnership, and Board Member of Women in Film, leads promotions for Disney, Warner Bros., and Netflix.
Eric Whitten is an award winning filmmaker and actor who has performed/worked in dozens of film/tv/theatre projects and is the owner/operator of Hollywood South Self Tapes.
Valentine "Val" De Landro is a Canadian comic book artist, illustrator, and designer. His credits include titles from Marvel, DC Comics, IDW, Valiant, and Dark Horse. He is known for Marvel Knights: 4 and X-Factor. He is the co-creator of Bitch Planet with Kelly Sue DeConnick.
Nerd-pop powerhouse trio The PDX Broadsides sing about fandoms and feelings with great vigor and harmony! From nerdy love ballads to science songs to odes to Nathan Fillion, you will be laughing and singing along the rest of the con.
Mera Rose is a professional production designer and costumer, an educational and disabilities advocate, and the President of CosInternational and former Vice President and President of the International Costumers' Guild.
Tamara Robertson is an Emmy-nominated producer & TV host, producer of Seekers of Science, host of Tinkering Belles, and known for her work as a co-host & fabricator on Mythbusters.
Yaya Han is a cosplayer, designer, and author with over 400 costumes, two US Network TV shows and countless magazines, books, newspapers, and appearances under her belt. Han is the first cosplayer to bring branded cosplay-focused sewing and crafting products and a Yaya Han sewing machine to the mass retail market.
Z.W. Taylor is the author of The Bite series and other successful stories on Wattpad. When she is not writing, she fills blank pages with ideas for the future.
Keith Baker is an award winning game designer and co-founder of Twogether Studios. In addition to creating the Eberron campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons and the innovative RPG Phoenix: Dawn Command, his bestselling board games include Illimat, the Gloom franchise, and The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance.
Ron Daniels is an attorney who regularly handles cases involving credit reporting errors, abusive debt collection, privacy issues, and constitutional rights.
J.M. Dragunas is a freelance illustrator currently working on his creator owned book L.C. Noir. He is known for his contributions to the Little Nemo anthology, the 1001 Knights anthology, and being the illustrator for Harry Potter: A Cinematic Gallery.
Omar Francia is a comic book illustrator from Argentina. His works include Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, multiple Mass Effect comic series, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, and Doom Patrol. Currently, he is assisting pre-production on the DC animated series Creature Commandos.
HeWhoIsSteve is a member of D&D podcasts Botched and Dragon Night Adventure Friends. He also creates informative humor videos on a variety of topics on Youtube and Tiktok.
Philip D Keating is the creator, producer, and show runner of Botched Podcast. He also streams retro and horror video games on Twitch under the alias ImaginaryNomad.
Matt Lane is a former competition lawyer who now works on tech policy in D.C. and sometimes lobbies for better laws.
Dennis Lee Robinson is one of the deranged minds behind Botched: A D&D Podcast, and is also the award winning writer and creator of the comic series Lycan: Solomon's Odyssey.
The first artist for Gambit, Elektra, and Apocolypse, Josef Rubinstein has inked more than 2,500 comic books in his career. Working with Dark Horse, Marvel, DC Comics and creating original fine art has brought him a diverse fandom, and an induction to the Joe Sinnott Inkwell Hall of Fame.
A 23 year veteran in tabletop games, Elisa Teague has worked on 100+ boardgames/RPGs, including writing for Dungeons & Dragons and the Marvel Multiverse RPG, and lead designing Kingdom Hearts Talisman, Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk, and the G.I. JOE, Transformers, Power Rangers, and My Little Pony RPGs.
Matthew M Foster has been a festival judge, emcee, panelist, and was the director of the Dragon Con Film Festival for 15 years. Foster is the chair of the Eugie Award.
MIT Prof. Brett McGuire has a PhD in chemistry and has worked with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His specially is astrochemistry.
James and Oliver Phelps play the Weasley twins, Fred and George, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
James and Oliver Phelps play the Weasley twins, Fred and George, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Sebastien de Castell's acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats, was shortlisted for both the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. His YA fantasy series, Spellslinger, is published in more than a dozen languages. He spends his time writing, travelling, and going on strange adventures.
Daniel Griffith is an award winning filmmaker documenting the history behind cult films and television shows, including Mystery Science Theater 3000, Dune, The Blair Witch Project, and The Twilight Zone.
Amie Stepanovich is an internationally recognized expert in privacy, government surveillance, and cybersecurity. She is currently vice president for US policy at the Future of Privacy Forum.
Elonka Dunin is a professional game developer, writer, cryptographer, and TEDx speaker. A leading expert on the world's most famous unsolved codes, such as "Kryptos" at CIA Headquarters.
Bill Holbrook is the creator of three comic strips; the internationally syndicated On the Fastrack and Safe Havens which are distributed by King Features, and the internet's longest-running daily webcomic Kevin & Kell.
Lia Holland (they/she) is a social artist, author, and activist in the Pacific Northwestern US. After 13 years in the music industry, Holland now focuses on emerging tech, artists' rights, and surveillance issues at national digital rights nonprofit Fight for the Future, while keeping up a rigorous speculative fiction habit.
Cam Clarke is a voice actor and singer, known for his work in animation and video games. Clarke provided the voices of Leonardo in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, Shotaro Kaneda in the 1989 original English-dub of Akira, and Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series.
Townsend Coleman is one of the most recognizable voices on TV. In addition to The Tick, he provided voices for Michaelangelo, Rat King, and Usagi Yojimbo on the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Waldo on Where's Waldo?, Gobo, Architect, and Wrench on Fraggle Rock, and Sentinel Prime on Transformers: Animated.
Tyler Desjardins is an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working on NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. His research background includes galaxies and supermassive black holes.
Dr. Scott W. Fleming is an astrophysicist who studies exoplanets and stars of all kinds. His team supports the archive of data from missions including Hubble, JWST, TESS, and Roman.
Bryan Fyffe creates moody and naturalistic art inspired by gothic horror, nature, science, and themes. His work is a mix of hand drawn elements fused with a variety of photographic textures.
Jason Keith is an Eisner Award nominated color artist, who for the past 15 years has colored exclusively for Marvel Comics. Credits include The Avengers, Hulk, Wolverine, Amazing Spider-Man, Mighty Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ghost Rider, Ultimate Avengers, Star Wars, and Darth Vader.
Fruity Snacks is an instructional designer who owns the Eorzean Aquarium and Eorzean Museum Network, and has a YouTube channel devoted to how to catch fish in Final Fantasy XIV.
Eisner and Harvey Award winning Jason Aaron has written such titles as Thor, Star Wars, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, Punisher, Avengers, Doctor Strange, and Southern Bastards. Aaron's DC Comics debut includes Batman Off-World and Superman's Action Comics. Aaron will be the writer for the relaunch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Award winning Kelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film, and television. She is best known for Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Bitch Planet, and Pretty Deadly. A founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, she has helped produce educational comics for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’s Run.
Barry Gordon became a fixture as a character actor in feature films and television, most prominently as a co-star on the hit series The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Fish, and Archie Bunker's Place. His voice was heard for decades as the Nestle Quik Bunny and he originated the voice of Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
She is best known as the voice of April O'Neil in the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Jacobs has been heard on numerous animated shows such as Rose Petal Place, Rose Petal Place: Real Friends, It's Punky Brewster!, My Little Pony, and Moon Dreamers.
Emmy award winning Rob Paulsen voices some of the most well-known characters of all time, including Yakko Warner and Pinky (of Pinky and the Brain) on the Animaniacs, Raphael/Donatello in the TMNT, Arthur in The Tick, the title role in The Mask, Carl Wheezer in Jimmy Neutron, and many more!
Aliona Baranova is a theatre trained actor and director, who has contributed to some of the most successful visual entertainment of the past 10 years. Her most recent project was working with Larian Studios and PitStop Productions to provide performance direction, voice and motion capture performances on Baldur's Gate III.
Jennifer English trained as an actor at the Royal Birmingham conservatoire, with extensive experience across stage, screen, and video games. Her video game credits include projects such as Divinity: Original Sin II, Latenna in Elden Ring, and most recently as the iconic role of Shadowheart on Baldur's Gate III.
Neil Newbon has been an actor and director in performance capture and voiceover in games, television, and films for 14+ years in 130+ titles. He is known for his work as Astarion on Baldur's Gate III, Deliver Us Mars, Trailer Farms: Happy Together Borderlands 3 trailer, and Total War Three Kingdoms.
On screen, Theo Solomon appeared in ITV's Vera, Sky's Temple, and BBC's Enterprice. On stage, he played a lead in the Old Vic's Woyzeck, toured Hamlet, and performed the award winning play Shebeen in London and Nottingham. Most recently he has appeared as Wyll in the record breaking Baldur's Gate III.
Devora Wilde, BAFTA Breakthrough Longlist nominee 2022, is a Bulgarian-born actress who grew up in the UK. She plays one of the main origin characters, Lae'zel, in Baldur's Gate III from Larian Studios, as well as voicing characters in games such as Arknights, Battlefield 2042, and Total Warhammer III, among others.
ARTC performs audio drama, both live and in the studio. We supply the story, the music, the sound effects, and the voices. The listener fills in all the other details with their imagination.
Eranga D works as a freelance illustrator out of Birmingham, Alabama. He does cover and pinup work in the mainstream and indie comic market. In his time in comics, he has worked with Dark Horse, Dynamite, Scout Comics, Black Caravan, and contributed covers to several indie Kickstarters.
Adam Kubert began his career in comics at the age of 12, lettering for DC Comics. He is best known for his work at Marvel. Kubert's work includes the X-Men, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Avengers, Superman, Ghost Rider, and most notably, Wolverine.
Mikal Mosley is an avid convention goer and costume designer. He has presented at several major conventions over the past 10 years, such as Dragon Con, MomoCon, and San Diego Comic Con. His professional costume credits include building costumes for the WWE, NFL, and various tv shows.
Bob Pendarvis was the original creator of SCAD's Sequential Art Department (he even named it) and taught dozens of unique classes for over 18 years. Pendarvis's most recent accomplishments are the successful publication of A Girl Teaching Art Classes in the Spooky Woods Near a Witch and the sequel James.
Sebastian Jones is the owner of Stranger Comics and the creator of the world of Asunda, a shared fantasy comic universe with an emphasis on representation that is coming soon to HBO, where Jones will write and produce. Jones' flagship character Niobe was honored with a foreword by Viola Davis.
Producing the Adventurers League series Legacy of Worlds and The Gamers: Natural One, Thomas designed Lynnvander's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pathfinder: Level 20, The World of Imaria, Cowboy Bebop, Dr. Who: Don't Blink, Evil Dead 2, Star Trek Alliance, and Battletech: Aces. Thomas streams D&D on Six Sides of Gaming.
Erin Macdonald has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a writer, speaker, producer, and science advisor; currently the official science advisor for the Star Trek franchise. She has also voiced her fictional counterpart Lt. Cmdr. Erin Macdonald in Star Trek: Prodigy and the video game Star Trek Online.
Harvey and Eisner Award winning P. Craig Russell has spent 40 years producing graphic novels, comic books, and illustrations. His work includes Coraline, Sandman, Elric, Killraven, Batman, Star Wars, Conan, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde series, classic operas, Jungle Book series, and many more.
Eliza Eldredge is the owner of the costume and prop-making company, Eldritch Arts, based in western Massachusetts; and is known for her screen-accurate replicas of props and costumes.
Nemesis is a 20+ year veteran of smashing dance club floors across the US and a ten time Dragon Con performer. High energy music and an unstoppable force keeping the party going! Techno, Electro House, Trance, Industrial, Goth, 80's, current, and more! Dark Shift provides stunning visuals on massive screens.
Bill has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, college dean, and game designer. As a book packager, he has created and edited over 400 books. He has collaborated on the Mycroft Holmes and Madame Vernet mysteries. His non-fiction includes Hunters & Shooters, The Teams, and Making Contact: a UFO Handbook.
John Jackson Miller is a New York Times bestselling author of novels and comics for Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Marvel. His new novel, Star Wars: The Living Force, releases in 2024 from Random House Worlds. He is a Dragon Award winner and recipient of four Scribe Awards.
Rebecca Moesta is the bestselling author of 40 books, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Junior Jedi Knights novels. In collaboration with her husband, Kevin J. Anderson, she wrote the Crystal Doors trilogy, the Young Jedi Knights series, and others. Rebecca and Kevin are the publishers of WordFire Press.
Dot is a podcaster, producer, digital storyteller, and tabletop game designer. She combines her love of games and storytelling as a freelance writer and the marketing director of Kobold Press.
Jamie Waggoner is an author, podcaster, Pagan priestess, and occult expert. Author of Hades: Myth, Magic and Modern Devotion and co-host of The Way of the Weaver podcast.
Elizabeth Donald is an award winning writer of dark fantasy and speculative fiction and a freelance journalist of 25 years. Her books include the Blackfire and Nocturne dark fantasy series.
Dan dos Santos' work spans many genres including novels, comics, and film. He has worked for every major publisher in the US, and his illustrations have graced the #1 spot on the New York Times BestSeller list. His illustration credits include covers for Brandon Sanderson, Patricia Briggs, and Patrick Rothfuss.
Nox Falls is a "gothicc" international performing artist that calls the Pacific Northwest home, amassing multiple awards within their career ranging from "Best Costume", "Most Fierce", and "Queen".
Amelia Gotham has voiced characters in video games such as Disneyland Adventures for Kinect, Final Fantasy XIII, as well as the voice of Mipha in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Mindy Lee has an extensive and varied career in the entertainment industry. From video games to animation and beyond, she brings her experience and talent to the world of comics – most recently as the co-creator and artist of Bounty, and the artist of Crimson Lotus, both published by Dark Horse Comics.
Cartoonist Chris Schweizer has received three Eisner Award nominations for his graphic novels series The Creeps and The Crogan Adventures, written the Pirates of the Caribbean comic series, and drawn titles like 6 Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, Mars Attacks, and Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder.
Spat Oktan of SpatCave Studios is an FX makeup artist, costume/prop maker, and author known for his MOBCon book series, his crazy costumes, and makeup effects.
Comfort and Adam are an award nominated creative duo. Comfort and Adam made their name as professional self-publishers with their acclaimed comic series The Uniques and Rainbow in the Dark. They also wrote a massive how-to book for Random House called The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics.
Emily Zarka is a monster expert and the creator, writer, and host of the popular YouTube series Monstrum.
Knight's writing career has spanned 40 years, her first professional sale in 1983. Author of 15 novels, with three scheduled for 2024, including a novel for Falstaff Books. She is a playwright, screenwriter, won the 2004 Hank Reinhardt Award, and was awarded a The Polaris Award for a lifetime achievement.
Comics writer and novelist whose works include Daredevil, Death of Wolverine, Eight Billion Genies, The Rise of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader, Poe Dameron, The High Republic, and Dark Droids. His books include Oracle Year, Star Wars: The Light of the Jedi, Anyone, and The Endless Vessel.
Benjamin Wallace is the author of the Duck & Cover Adventures, the Shattered Alliance saga, Dads vs. Zombies, and other action adventure comedies.
Darin M. Bush is an award winning science-fiction and fantasy short-story author. He is the founder and executive producer of Tables of Content, a virtual sci-fi convention.
Georges Jeanty is an Eisner winner and NY Times bestselling artist for the critically acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His art can be seen at Marvel on Xtinction, Captain America, and Star Wars:The High Republic. He is currently working on Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian.
Logan Jenkins is a TRPG writer, content creator, and voice actor. He is a co-host on Very Random Encounters. He and his co-hosts wrote The Ultimate Random Encounters Book.
S.L. Rowland is a bestselling author of cozy fantasy series Tales of Aedrea and LitRPG series Sentenced to Troll.
Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his Dune and Star Wars novels, his Saga of Seven Suns, Terra Incognita, Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series, and steampunk novels with Rush drummer Neil Peart. He writes comics, edits anthologies, publishes WordFire Press, and the director of the publishing graduate program at WCU.
Corey Applegate is actively involved in a wide variety of fandoms including Star Wars, Wheel of Time, sewing, D&D, fantasy literature, history, travel, and Disney.
Alex Damon is the co-creator and co-host of Star Wars Explained, a YouTube channel covering all Star Wars that has gained over 800,000 subscribers. He is also a 3-time winner of the Dragon Con Star Wars Trivia Contest.
Mollie Damon is the co-creator and co-host of Star Wars Explained, a YouTube channel covering all Star Wars that has gained over 800,000 subscribers.
S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents. He published his first novel, Snow Brother, in 1984. In 1995 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. His latest are Conan: Blood of the Serpent and To Turn the Tide, a time-travel novel coming out from Baen in August.
Irene Zielinski is a game developer at Steve Jackson Games. Her debut roleplaying game, Scurvy Buggers, is out now with 9th Level Games.
Devon Chulick is the creator of Total Party Chill, the award winning D&D actual play channel. He is the co-founder of StartPlaying, the largest platform for finding professional game masters. He has been featured in Bloomberg, SF Gate, Marketwatch, Yahoo! News, Forbes, Polygon, Bleeding Cool, The Information, and more.
Stacey Rourke is the award winning author of works that span genres, but possess the same flair for action and snarky humor. She lives in Florida with pets and family.
Epic fantasy author Katharine E. Wibell's acclaimed novels include The Incarn Saga series and The Djed Chronicles series. The Guardian's Speaker novella series is an adult dark Viking fantasy.
Walter Dean is a designer who specializes in custom-made costumes. He was featured by Marvel Studios in Marvel Becoming: Dora Milaje. He has also been spotlighted in several written publications.
Since 1986, Matt Green has served as a special effects coordinator, producer, and director. He brings a relentless drive to make captivating cinema and has directed 11 feature films and has over one hundred special effects credits to his name. Green has been a speaker at Dragon Con since 1987.
Andrew Lee Griffith is a pop culture artist best known for his stints as the lead artist on books such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, and Micronauts. He is currently working on Godzilla and the creator-owned comic SIGNA, as well as Magic the Gathering.
Amanda Conner has worked on Harley Quinn, Lois Lane, Codename: Knockout, Birds of Prey, X-Men Unlimited, Gatecrasher (co-creator), and The Pro, an Eisner-nominated creator-owned book for Image Comics with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Recently she worked on the Before Watchman: Silk Spectre series with Eisner-winning creator Darwyn Cooke.
Bethany Kesler is a historian, writer, podcaster, and fabulous reader. Most of her work is under the pen name, DJ Gray, which she maintains for plausible deniability reasons.
A multi-award winning writer, creator, and editor. Palmiotti's works include Harley Quinn, The New West, Jonah Hex, Monolith, 21 Down, The Resistance, The Pro, Gatecrasher, Beautiful Killer, Ash, Cloudburst, Trigger Girl 6, Thrill Seeker, Trailblazer, Ballerina, The Twilight Experiment, Killing Time in America, Rage, Queen Crab, and Retrovirus.
Stephen Granade is a physicist, writer, and interactive narrative designer specializing in robotics and machine learning. He was most recently on the Science Channel's NASA's Unexplained Files, and his game, Professor of Magical Studies, is out now from Choice of Games.
Mari Mancusi is the award winning author of over 30 books for kids, teens, and adults. She writes tie-in novels for Disney Press as well as sci-fi/fantasy books for other major publishers. An Emmy award winning former TV news producer, she also writes branching narrative fiction for mobile gaming companies.
Aretta Baumgartner is education and advocacy director of the Center for Puppetry Arts, America's largest puppetry non-profit. A puppeteer for 30 years, she presents workshops and creates original puppet work.
Known as one of the great hybrid author pioneers, Brian D. Anderson has written more than 25 novels which have sold more than half a million copies worldwide.
Fon Davis appears on BattleBots, The Movies that Made Us, Prop Culture, Cake Masters, and Superfan Builds. He has worked on over 45 feature films including The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Star Wars series. More recently, Davis has been directing shorts and worked on Godzilla, The Mandalorian, and Interstellar.
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma and Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, Bloom, The Violence, the Minecraft: Mob Squad series, the Hit series, the Blud series, the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen), and the Tales of Pell, written with Kevin Hearne.
Ernest Dempsey is a USA Today bestselling author of archaeological thrillers and urban fantasy with over 50 books published since 2011. Inspired by books about ancient history, mysterious relics, and films, Dempsey's books offer a unique blend of history and fiction that blur the lines of reality.
Susan Griffith is the co-author of fantasy fiction with her husband, Clay, including the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, and The Flash and Arrow team-up. She is a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick, The Simpsons, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
Daniel Gossard, AKA StonerGump. Author of Herbally Infused and Chronically Bemused. Elevated funny man and head astronaut.
Steve Jackson has been designing games for 45 years and has no plans to stop. His creations include Munchkin, Illuminati, the GURPS and The Fantasy Trip roleplaying systems, Ogre, Car Wars, and Zombie Dice. He is a citizen of the Internet until Texas cleans up its act.
Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh, and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, as well as many other novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories in all the genres and under a variety of pen names, including G.J.Koch, Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch.
Cherie Priest is the author of more than two dozen books and novellas - most recently The Drowning House from Sourcebooks and Cinderwich from Apex Book Company. She is perhaps best known for the Clockwork Century series, beginning with the Hugo/Nebula/Locus nominated Boneshaker.
Rosa became internationally famous in 1987 when he began creating stories based on his favorite comics, Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge, for publishers in Europe where Barks' Duck comics continue to be the bestselling comics as they once were in America.
Since 2003 Jack Skillingstead has sold three novels and 40+ short stories. He has been a finalist for both the Sturgeon Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. His second collection, The Whole Mess and Other Stories, was published in 2023 by Fairwood Press. He lives in Seattle with his wife, writer Nancy Kress.
Abby Trott is known for portraying Nezuko in Demon Slayer, Annette in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ivy in Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, Windblade in the Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy, and singing the English version of the theme for Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Trevor Valle is a former paleontologist and science writer who has appeared in documentaries on History Channel, Discovery, and in IMAX, and is a professional GM, TTRPG writer, creator, game tester, Twitch and YouTube Actual Play regular, and the dinosaur creator for Atlas Games' Planegea D&D setting.
Giancarlo Esposito is best known for his portrayal of Gustavo "Gus" Fring on the AMC series Breaking Bad. He has portrayed Sidney Glass/Magic Mirror on ABC's Once Upon a Time and currently portrays Major Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution.
Larry Hama is a comic book writer, artist, and editor, best known for G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, which he is currently writing. He has also written for Wolverine, Venom, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He co-created the character Bucky O'Hare.
Jason Liebrecht is an actor & performing artist based in Austin, TX. His voice acting includes credits in genres from anime to gaming. Liebrecht is also a long-time company member and collaborator with the Rude Mechs. He also has a number of on-camera credits in independent projects and network television.
J.D. Blackrose writes The Summoner's Mark series for Bell Bridge Books. She has published The Soul Wars, The Devil's Been Busy, and the Zombie Cosmetologist novellas through Falstaff Books.
Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and Cinder Spires. His resume includes skills which were useful a couple of centuries ago. An avid gamer, he plays tabletop games in varying systems, a variety of PC and console games, and LARPs whenever he can.
Will Conrad began his comics career as an inker on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Conrad became a DC and Marvel artist, working on Black Panther, Dark Avengers, Wolverine, X-Men, Batman, Justice League, Odyssey, Superman, The Flash, and Nightwing. He resides in Brazil, with his wife Bella and their two daughters.
Catherine Jones owns a costume making company based out of Atlanta, GA. Her shop works primarily with the tv, film, and video game industry. Jones's shop specializes in sewing leather, creating knitwear, repairing sewing machines, and 3D modeling for garments.
Elizabeth Maxwell is a voice actress known for her work in Attack on Titan (Ymir), My Hero Academia (Midnight), and Dragon Ball Super (Caulifla/Kefla). Other popular titles include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (Urbosa/Riju), Overlord (Albedo), Persona 5 (Sae Niijima), Genshin Impact (Rosaria), RWBY (Winter Schnee), and Fruits Basket (Arisa Uotani).
Alison Tracy Wynn, PhD is a senior research scholar with the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab. As Alison Tracy, she writes YA and adult sci-fi/fantasy.
Bethany Brookshire is a PhD neuroscientist, science writer, and podcaster. She is the author of the 2022 book Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.
Jim Farmer led Out On Film, Atlanta's LGBTIA+ film festival, to become an Oscar qualifying film festival and is an award winning arts reporter who covers film, television, and theater.
Literary Guest of Honor Nancy Kress is the author of 34 novels, four story collections, three books on writing fiction, and over 100 short stories. She has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Most recent work is Observer (2023), written with Dr. Robert Lanza.
Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio is a three-time Hugo award winner and one of the most acclaimed artists in sci-fi and fantasy over the last two decades. He has created bestselling cover artwork for 150+ major sci-fi/fantasy books including works by George R.R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Leigh Bardugo, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Harlan Ellison.
Mandisa Thomas is the founder and president of Black Nonbelievers. She has been featured in the documentaries gOD-Talk and Contradiction, and on CBS Sunday Morning and CNN.com.
Andrew E.C. Gaska is the multiple award winning lore/adventure writer for Free League's Alien RPG. A franchise consultant to 20th Century Studios on Alien, Predator, and POTA, he is the lead writer for two Choose Your Own Adventure graphic novels and the Terminator and Planet of the Apes RPGs.
Very few alternate visions of established characters have captured the imaginations of fandom like the DC Comics Bombshells. When Ant Lucia unveiled his designs for such characters as Wonder Woman, Batwoman, Harley Quinn, and the rest in the series the popularity exploded!
Mary Abreu is a TV/film seamstress/tailor who has worked on Marvel, Sweet Magnolias, The Walking Dead, and the upcoming WWII movie, Six Triple Eight.
Dane Ault is the artist behind Monkey Minion Press, an art company he runs with his wife and business partner, Ashlie Hammond. Monkey Minion Press has been publishing art books, kid's books, and all manner of POPaganda, science, and space-related art prints and posters for over a decade.
Brianna Garcia is a professional comic artist and storyboard artist, working on titles such as My Little Pony, Disney Princess Comics, Batman and Harley Quinn, and Justice League Dark.
Panterona is an award winning cosplayer, fashion/carnival costume designer from Trinidad and Tobago. She has been cosplaying and designing costumes for 20 years and has won several cosplay competitions around the world. Panterona has also directed, produced, and starred in television programs on costume design in the Caribbean region.
Rachel Rener is an award winning, #1 bestselling romantasy author of several series, including Gilded Blood, as well as a voice actor on the DnD podcast, Of Dice and Friends.
Greg Burnham: comic book/children's book writer in Norcross, GA. With DC Comics stories under his belt: The Spoils (Superman), Ablution (Icon), and Fair Play (Mr. Terrific), Burnham has created quite the resume. His creator owned properties: Tuskegee Heirs, The Search for Sadiqah, Little Rock Files, etc. are all hits.
Ed Greenwood is a Canadian writer, game designer, actor, scriptwriter, and librarian who created The Forgotten Realms fantasy setting. Greenwood has also created or co-created Stormtalons, Mornmist, and worked in Amber, Oz, and Middle Earth. His 450-plus books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide in over 40 languages.
Ian Harris, "The Skeptic Comedian", is a 10 year veteran of Dragon Con; with his biting "thinking man's" comedy mixes, science, skepticism, and pop culture. For the past five years, he and Leighann Lord have done the Dragon Con favorite Science and Fiction Comedy Show.
Jeff Hubbs is a consultant specializing in energy systems and climate change research. A regular Dragon Con panelist since 2013, his presentations have covered energy storage, electronics, and lighting.
Sadie Witkowski is currently the director of communications for the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago. In her free time, she hosts the podcast In Defense of Fandom.
Aaron Reynolds is the 4-time Webby award winning author of Effin' Birds, a comic strip pairing intricate artwork with mundane daily frustrations read by over a million people every day. His first book, Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification, hit bookstores in 2019 and is a bestseller.
Sweeney Boo is a comic artist and illustrator. When she is not busy drawing witchy girls and hairless cats, she works with various publishers. She is also the author and illustrator of graphic novel Eat, & Love Yourself and Over My Dead Body out with HarperCollins.
Ryan Browne is a professional comicsbooksman from Chicago, Illinois. He is WORLD famous for co-creating Eight Billion Genies and Curse Words with Charles Soule. He is infamous for fully-creating God Hates Astronauts for which he is currently on a worldwide apology tour. Browne is an Executive Producer on the Eight Billion Genies movie now in development at Amazon Studios.
Sam Baltrusis, author of Ghosts of Salem and featured in The Curse of Lizzie Borden shock doc, has penned 17 books and appeared on more than a dozen paranormal-themed shows.
Liz Delton writes fantasy and steampunk stories ranging from cozy to epic, including her cozy fantasy steampunk series, Seasons of Soldark, and her YA Fantasy series, Realm of Camellia.
USA Today bestselling author JC Kang published Asian-themed epic fantasy before it was cool, and still moved 50k copies through 2018. Kang has nearly 250k followers across major platforms.
Dr. Law is a published PhD-level behavioral scientist, photographer, podcaster, and gamer. He founded Dr. LAW's Photolab, and is part of the Stuff We Love, Stuff We Hate Podcast.
Leighann Lord is a stand-up comedian who has performed at Dragon Con for several years. She is the author of Dict Jokes and Real Women Do it Standing Up, has been a co-host on StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and has been on Comedy Central, HBO, and Showtime.
Channing Sherman, co-host of The Dragon Con Report podcast, co-founded the Black Geeks of Dragon Con to celebrate the love of cosplay in the Black Geek community.
Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan is a director and camera operator in film and television. He has worked on projects that include A24, Magnolia Pictures, and Outdoor Channel.
Rodney Barnes is a Peabody Award winning writer/producer best known for his work on The Boondocks and Marvel's Falcon comics.
Michael Chatfield is an international bestselling author with over 45 books based in fantasy, science fiction, and LitRPG universes!
Shawn Crystal got his first job while in school, Resident Evil: Fire and Ice, a miniseries for Wildstorm. Around 5 years ago, Marvel hired Crystal on Deadpool, living his childhood dream. He is currently an artist for Marvel Comics and Valiant Entertainment.
Peter "Capn" Cutler, artist for New Legends' Tiki Zombie, has done work over the last 30 years for ABS Inc., Con-Tees, Galactic Press, East Cobber, and Guy Gilchrist Productions. Cutler is also working on his own Spookie Kookies art, books, and many other items.
Hans House, MD is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Iowa. He lectures frequently both nationally and internationally on travel-related and emerging infectious diseases.
E.K. Johnston is the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of 15 YA novels, including Aetherbound and The Afterward, and sometimes she gets to play in the Star Wars sandbox, too.
Dr. Sarah M. Milkovich is a science storyteller, sharing her enthusiasm for robotic space exploration and the stories of the people behind the robots. She has spent decades exploring the solar system with a variety of spacecraft.
Daniel Schinhofen has published over 50 books since 2016, receiving name recognition in the LitRPG and GameLit community. He has published in multiple other genres as well.
Kevin Stallard has been an information security professional for more than 30 years. Currently, Stallard works as the director of security architecture for Xbox Gaming.
Every DND group needs a cleric, no? A priest for over 15 years, Fr. Bryan Small loves to share in the fandoms with his fellow nerds.
David Moscato is a paleontologist, science writer, and host of the Common Descent podcast. He applies his experience as a fossil hunter, researcher, and educator to discussions about life on Earth.
Rob Southgate is co-founder of Southgate Media Group (SMG), VP of marketing and growth for 4 Horsemen Publications, and is the director of marketing for The Storyteller's Forge.
Joshua "Sway" Swaby has provided cover artwork for Entertainment Weekly, DC Comics, Vault Comics, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. His art has brought to life many iconic properties, including Star Wars, Black Widow, Wonder Woman, Miles Morales, Thanos, Loki, and more.
Robert Chapin is a visual effects artist, fight choreographer, actor, writer, and director. He wrote and starred in Ring of Steel and The Hunted.
Christopher G. Moore is an award winning filmmaker and screenwriter. He directed a segment in the horror anthology Worst Laid Plans. He is also a co-host for the podcast Gruesome Magazine.
D.R. Perry writes fiction for both YA and adult audiences. Among her works is Dragon Award nominated adult novel A Change In Crime and 40+ volumes of YA across the Revealed World series.
Jessie Pridemore is a nonbinary cosplayer who has been cosplaying for almost 25 years! They have cosplayed for numerous anime and video game companies including Funimation, Aniplex, Ubisoft, Amazon Games, and many more. They were also a contestant on Syfy's Cosplay Melee.
Alex Shvartsman is an award winning writer, translator, and anthologist. He is the author of Kakistocracy, The Middling Affliction, and Eridani's Crown fantasy novels; as well as 120+ short stories.
Ian Randal Strock is the award winning author and publisher responsible for Release the Virgins and Jewish Futures. He previously edited for Analog, Asimov's, Science Fiction Chronicle, and Baen Books.
Gogo Incognito is a professional glamour nerd. She is a full-time performer, producer, emcee, and live entertainer. She regularly produces sell-out variety and cabaret shows in Nashville.
Dan Jolley began writing professionally at age 19, and has written comic books, novels, children's books, video games, and the occasional screenplay. He is most noted for co-creating the Jason Rusch incarnation of DC Comics' Firestorm and scripting the main story of the global bestselling video game Dying Light.
Terry Maggert wrote the Backyard Starship, Peacemaker Wars, Halfway Witchy, Messenger, Starcaster, and Shattered Skies series, as well as contributing to many anthologies. Maggert has written 79 novels.
Guy Dorian Sr. is a comic book artist, toy designer, and cinematic art designer with over 30 years of experience who has worked for some of the largest mainstream companies in the world, including Marvel, DC, IDW, JusToys, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, and Storm King Productions.
Teresa Spinelli is a mission director of the Cygnus spacecraft, resupplying the International Space Station. She is the youngest and only woman to be certified to lead a Cygnus mission.
Annie Stegg Gerard has always loved to paint. Her art career began at seven years old, when she had her first art show at school. Since then she has worked for clients across the world. Inspired by nature, folklore, and mythology, her work evokes emotion and imagination in the viewer.
Justin Gerard is an American illustrator heavily inspired by the works of JRR Tolkien, classical mythology, Arthurian legend, and the natural world. Using methods gleaned from the golden-age illustrators, he paints narrative-driven paintings of giant dragons, terrible monsters, and heroic figures in scenes of mythic chaos and medieval fantasy.
Joe Compton is an indie author and an independent filmmaker who has worked on 40+ productions. He is also the executive producer and on air host for Go Indie Now.
Tony Reames is an award winning writer and director, whose work includes short films, music videos, and commercials. Reames's directorial debut Spookt had its 2023 world premiere at London FrightFest.
Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of Hogan's Alley magazine, the Eisner award winning magazine about contemporary and classic cartooning. He is a former managing editor of The Comics Journal and for years wrote biographical essays for Will Eisner's Spirit magazine for Kitchen Sink Press.
Currently the deputy science manager and investigation scientist for the radar instrumentation NASA's Europa Clipper Mission. She worked 20 years on Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn (specializing in Titan), and started her career working on Voyager. She is an active public speaker, invited to give many talks around the nation.
Jon stars in Magicians: Life in the Impossible. You have seen him amaze on The Today Show, cause Penn on CW's Penn and Teller's Fool Us to exclaim his act as “the most original I've ever seen!”, and wow Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.
Brandy is an academic known for combining popular culture with current events. As a terrorism expert, she loves to help people learn about preparing for emergencies.
James J. Butcher is a new urban fantasy writer and author of Dead Man's Hand, the first book in The Unorthodox Chronicles series. He is the son of Jim Butcher.
Featured on NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists for her dual life as psychopharmacologist and stuntwoman, Dr. Cail serves as science advisor for Hollywood; including projects for Marvel, Disney, and Netflix.
As the Agency Chief Technologist, A.C. Charania serves as an advisor to NASA's administrator on technology policy and programs. He also leads technology innovation at NASA and aligns agency-wide technology investments with mission needs across the six mission directorates. Charania oversees technology collaboration with federal agencies and the private sector.
Sophia is a marine biologist and social scientist studying marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico. She has studied manatees, African elephants, marine iguanas, and green sea turtles.
Appearing on numerous TV shows and the author of 34 books, Richard Estep writes and presents on topics ranging from the paranormal, true crime, history, and writing/publishing.
Richard Fierce is an award winning fantasy author of over 30 books, which have sold over 150,000 copies globally since 2020. He lives in northwest Georgia with family and pets.
Anthony Francis teaches robot learning, writes science fiction (including the Dakota Frost, Skindancer UF series and Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine), and is coeditor of The Neurodiversiverse Anthology.
Stage director, public speaker, and singer Kirsten Z. Cairns is a senior staffer for TheOneRing.net. Often seen at events as a panelist for TORN, a performer, or interviewing cast members, Cairns brings knowledge of literature, music, theatre, and fantasy to all her interactions with fans and celebs!
Will is a paleontologist, educator, and host of The Common Descent Podcast, where he applies his professional experience to entertaining and educational discussions about past and present life on Earth.
Matthew Hawkins is a maker, paper toy artist, and illustrator. Hawkins weaves humor and energy into bold, whimsical art for humorous and often surprising results. He has made work for Disney, DC, Nickelodeon, Nintendo, Sega, and WWE.
Lucas Hernandez is the education coordinator at the South Carolina Aquarium. He is also a member of the Sprites of Life podcast, that discusses what games can teach us.
Jesse J. Holland wrote the Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Finn's Story novels. He also wrote for Superman: Red and Blue.
Les Johnson is a physicist, author, and chief technologist at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. His recent books include A Traveler's Guide to the Stars (Princeton Press), The Spacetime War (Baen), and the forthcoming Pluto: The Dark World (Tor) and Crisis at Proxima (Baen).
Jim Mahfood aka "Food One" has been a freelance artist for 25 years and has worked in the fields of comics books, illustration, advertising, animation, feature films, toy design, live art, and gallery exhibitions. Mahfood's current projects include illustrating loading screens for the Fortnite video game.
Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, PhD is co-writer of The Shepherd Series with Scout Comics. Molinari serves as editorial director for Scout Comics. He has edited for Caliber Comics and Amigo Comics, and has edited books published by Action Lab Entertainment, Behemoth, Second Sight, Cosmic Times, and New Friday Comics.
Bryce O'Connor is the CEO of Wraithmarked Creative. He is also a #1 Audible Store bestselling author, with his works having sold over 500,000 copies worldwide.
Ande Parks has inked titles such as Daredevil, Ant-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Nightwing. He is best known for Green Arrow, with collaborator Phil Hester. Parks has written three graphic novels for Oni Press; the most well-known, Ciudad, was developed with the Russo brothers for Netflix as Extraction.
Forrest is a biologist and science communicator who teaches learners of all ages to love science and each other on YouTube, TikTok, and shows like SkepTalk and The Atheist Experience.
HC Warner is responsible for the birth of the comics and pop art installation in a double suite poolside at the Courtland Grand, featuring an array of present leaders in the lowbrow and pop art arena. Warner has been part of Atlanta's lowbrow scene since the early '90s .
Stationed in Atlanta Ga, he spends most of his time toiling away late nights on everything from illustrating comic art, fan art, children's books, to random character commissions. He is excited about the direction of his comic properties, and looks forward to creating more forms of visual entertainment and stories.
Jason Metcalf is a comic book cover artist whose work includes The Last Ronin, Batman and Maxx, Van Helsing, RAI, Bloodshot, War Angels, and more. Outside of comics, Metcalf has done production story art for HBO's Game of Thrones, History Channel's Vikings, and character design for Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment.
Gabriel Perez is the composer and audio engineer for the Quid Pro Roll podcast, lead writer and sound designer for the Heartlands VR-RPG, and lover of all things strange.
John Giang is an acclaimed cover and concept artist, whose covers include: Spider-Man, Batman, and Last Ronin; and film credits include: Rogue One, Avengers, TMNT, and Transformers. Giang has jammed with Marvel, DC Comics, Paramount, Disney, Lucasfilm, and Hasbro.
Nich Lyle (LCMHC) is a cosplayer and therapist who believes in the therapeutic power of pop culture. He works with fellow nerds and champions them in embracing their individual superpowers.
Hawk is a radiation effects engineer, building the fastest computers in space, but he has had a number of other careers including: survivability engineer (DoD), environmental scientist (NASA), and a fight instructor for self-defense and stage. Hawk is a published author in history, science, and fantasy.
Chuck Brown is an Eisner and Ringo award winning comic book writer. He is the current writer for Aquaman. He has written Bitter Root (co-creator), The Punisher, Black Panther, and Wolverine. He is also the writer and creator of The Quiet Kind and On the Stump.
Jessica Cage is an international award winning and USA Today bestselling author from Chicago, IL. She is an independent publisher who focuses on writing strong characters of color in fantasy. Cage recently signed with Webtoon to produce exclusive content for their new reading app, Yonder.
Multiple Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner has published over 40 novels, more than 200 short stories, and has edited 11 anthologies including the Chicks in Chainmail series for Baen Books. She is also the author of the Princesses of Myth YA series for Random House.
Jeaniene Frost is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fantasy romance. She is best known for the following series: Night Huntress, Night Prince, Night Rebel, and Broken Destiny. Frost's novels have also appeared in Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, ABA Indiebound, and international bestseller lists.
Stephanie Mirro is an Amazon Charts bestselling author and best known for The Last Phoenix urban fantasy romance series.
Dr. Thomas Parham chairs the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Palm Beach Atlantic University and is a WGA member with produced credits.
Emily Swan is a graphic designer and illustrator. Swan is showrunner of Doodle Crew, co-host of Sketching Shakespeare!, and a member of In Addition and Surprise Attack Book Club.
Judy Black is a writer who makes her home in Atlanta. She loves games, books, cats, things with caffeine, and is an Ennie-nominated writer of Dungeons and Dragons modules.
Ryan Cahill is the award winning author of the bestselling epic fantasy series The Bound and The Broken.
Jordan Duncan is a historian, researcher, and educator. He has been part of the Atlanta area paranormal community since 2008. He is also a podcaster and vlogger.
Adam Friedman is a scientist and artist exploring intersections between art and environmentalism. Friedman is an actor, director, and writer in the theatre community, co-founding the Atlanta Green Theatre Alliance.
Vandy Beth Glenn is a screenwriter, director, comedian, and civil rights pioneer. She has a journalism degree from UGA and is on Instagram [@vandybethglenn], Bluesky [@vandybethglenn.bsky.social], and Twitter [@RedVelvetCakes].
Laura Grabowski is Executive Director of Middle-earth News, has presented with the Mythopoeic Society and the Popular Culture Association, holds a PhD in Computer Science, and is a professor at SUNY.
Joe is a marine biologist, has studied bottlenose dolphins, worked as a protected species observer, and has interned for agencies conducting research on killer whales, humpback whales, and sea otters.
Tara Lynne is an author, event planner, fandom culture expert, public speaker, host of the Geek Saga and Sagas & Sass podcasts, and founded Ice & Fire Con.
Gary Poole is the founder and host of Robot Battles, edited four bestselling anthologies set in John Ringo's Black Tide Rising universe, and runs the Southern Fandom Resource Guide website.
Anne Schlea writes two series: The Retribution Universe and The Fallen. She enjoys blending true history into urban fantasy to create a dynamic world for her readers to step into.
Jonathan Thompson is a veteran filmmaker and author from England. He has helped develop over $150 million worth of content and his clients sell their films to major studios.
Rilo Ward is an animation enthusiast who hosts Guild of Calamitous Podcasts, centered around The Venture Bros; as well as a writer for the [adult swim] news website adultswimcentral.com.
Jason Lane is a longtime writer of various stuff - mostly concerning horror, martial arts films, giant monsters, giant robots, pro wrestling, comic books, and any type of vanguard/cult cinema.
Dr. Birma Gainor is the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Clemson University. She has been engaged in college mental health for just over two decades.
Kim Harrison is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 bestselling Hollows series, but she has traditionally published more than two dozen books spanning multiple genres. She is currently working on a new Hollows book between other, non-related, modern fantasy projects.
Raychelle Burks is a chemistry professor with a crime lab background. She brings her expertise to examine unusual cases, both real and fictional.
Chris Cummins is a professional nerd who writes for Archie Comics and is the producer/host of Sci-Fi Explosion - which celebrates the weirdest moments in science fiction history.
Paula Kelly; with a career of research, acting, and screenwriting; is the co-owner of In the Shadows Entertainment Group. Her book Ghostly Tales of McCracken County showcases her storytelling.
Cary Nord is the award winning artist of comic books and graphic novels such as Daredevil, X-Men, and Conan The Barbarian. Throughout his career, Nord has drawn virtually every major character in comics; having worked on Superman, Wolverine, Mutant X, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Thor, and Star Wars.
Will Aymerich is the co-author of Souls of Norcross and Shadows of The Past, and founder of The Darkside Syndicate, a paranormal investigation team from Atlanta.
Jason Dorough is the author of the epic fantasy Teshovar series, has worked as a voiceover artist for more than a decade, and is also a content creator on BookTok.
Tana Ford is the artist on Marvel's Silk. She has done work on Gwenpool, Star Trek, Jem and the Holograms, VenomVerse, and The Amazing Spider-Man. She is the creator of the award winning lesbian comic book series DUCK! She has recently collaborated with writer Nnedi Okorafor in the Black Panther universe.
Alicia Fox-Lenz is co-host of Queer Lodgings: A Tolkien Podcast, a steward of the Mythopoeic Society, and scholar interested in studying Tolkien through a cultural studies lens.
Scott Hanna is an inker in the comic book industry who has worked with DC Comics and Marvel. He started his career with Eternity Comics and worked for DC for five years. He has worked for Marvel Comics for almost 14 years and inked almost every major character.
Gavin Kelly, the head honcho of In the Shadows Entertainment Group, digital cinematographer, and author of Ghost Hunting: Sensationalism in Social Media, captures the essence of the unseen.
“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team. Gordon and Ilona reside in Texas with their many dogs and cats. They have co-authored several bestselling series, including the #1 NYT bestselling urban fantasy Kate Daniels, rustic fantasy The Edge, paranormal romance Hidden Legacy, and Innkeeper Chronicles.
Matthew Brown, PhD, is a scholar of comics and pop culture. He is co-editor of More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods and has organized panels at Dragon Con.
Creees Lee is a variant cover artist and is the interior artist for Black Mask's Lab Raider. He has worked for Image, Dynamite, and Chapterhouse Comics.
Dr. Nicole Gugliucci aka "NoisyAstronomer" is a physics professor, education researcher, astronomer, science communicator, and geek. Their passion for science education drives a number of projects, including home-built radio telescopes.
James Hunter is a bestselling author of Rogue Dungeon, Vigil Bound, Discount Dan, and the LitRPG epic Viridian Gate Online! In addition to writing, he also runs Shadow Alley Press.
J.D. Monroe is a Georgia-based author who loves all things paranormal, magical, and downright fantastical. She is currently writing the Cursed Blood series, an action-packed vampire romance.
D.B. Jackson/David B. Coe is an award winning fantasy author and has edited several anthologies. As D.B. Jackson, he writes the Thieftaker Chronicles. As David B. Coe, he has recently published The Chalice War Celtic fantasy series. He has a PhD in US History from Stanford University.
Lisa Manifold is a USA Today bestselling author of paranormal women's fiction, urban fantasy, and romance; with her most recent releases in her series, The Oracle of Wynter.
Brandon Strauss is a doctoral candidate in entomology at Texas A&M. They are described as the real-life Hodgins and will tell you about decomposition and the wonderful smells it produces.
11 time award winning, Johnny Goodwill "Sunlight of Astora" creates costumes based off of dark fantasy and horror video games, along with props and effects for tv and film.
When asked to describe Jason R. Merrill, the word "dapper" is the inevitable answer. Merrill runs Blackbird Finery, providing antique, vintage, and reproduction gentleman's accessories to a modern audience.
Since 2011, Matt Frank has been known in both Japan and America as the "Kaiju King", one of the most prolific American artists associated with the Godzilla franchise. In addition to many Godzilla comics, he has also provided art for franchises like Ultraman, Gamera, Power Rangers, Tremors, and more!
Clay Griffith is the co-author of the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, The Flash, and Arrow. He is a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick, The Simpsons, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He recently wrote fiction in the Throne & Bones RPG universe.
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She has edited numerous anthologies, and is the co-author of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts.
Wayland Smith calls himself pan-authorial because it is funnier than multi-genre. His novels include In My Brother's Name, a terrorist thriller, and the Wildside series about superhuman mercenaries.
Wen Spencer is the winner of the 2003 Astounding Award for Best New Writer and author of 15 books, including the Elfhome series.
Timothy Zahn is the author of 16 Star Wars novels, the Cobra, Quadrail, Sibyl's War, and Dragonback series, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, The Icarus Twin, and A Call to Insurrection (with David Weber and Thomas Pope). Upcoming books include The Icarus Job and The Icarus Changeling.
Alison Carrier is a design director at Scopely. As a developer, she has worked on Star Wars: Hunters and Halo Infinite, while advocating for diversity and equity in video games.
Mike Crugnola can be seen on the D&D live play podcast Adventure Incorporated, on Ask the Pokedexpert, and on Twitch as a host on Swoontower Soccer and InAddition.
Tini Howard is a comic book writer and swamp witch from the Carolina Wilds. Currently, she writes Euthanauts, Assassinistas (with Gilbert Hernandez), and Hack/Slash: Resurrection, with occasional stories for two of her favorite things: Rick and Morty and WWE. Previous work includes Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink and The Skeptics.
Dr. Kilgard is an astrophysicist who researches black holes in nearby galaxies and how they grow over cosmic time, and lectures on astronomy in history, science fiction, and pop culture.
Jerry Peacock co-founded Muscle Nerdz 10 years ago to help promote fitness and healthy lifestyle within the geek and nerd communities.
Marx Pyle is an author, screenwriter, filmmaker, podcaster, adjunct professor, martial artist, the author of Obsidian Monsters, and co-editor/co-author of the award winning anthology Dragons of a Different Tail.
David Weber is a science-fiction and fantasy author best known for his Honor Harrington and Safehold series. He lives in South Carolina with his wife Sharon Rice-Weber, whom he loves a lot.
Stephen Adams is the host of the podcasts, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and Those Were The Days, and a founder of the 2Dorks network of podcasts and live streams.
Jer Alford is a comic historian and owner of Mini-Komix. He's the head of the Stupid Comics retrospective group, and reviews for the Anime Anyway website.
Jess Anderson, aka [@stressinabox] on social media, is a content creator with over two million followers and the author behind the fantasy series The Source Keepers.
Paul Barrett is an author and filmmaker. He has six published novels, has produced two features and two documentaries, and works in film and television production as his day job.
Davey Beauchamp is a librarian and artist. He has worked for BBC, BBCA, Penguin UK, Falstaff Books, Distraction Dragon Press, and others. He is currently art director for Tavern Publishing.
Jamie Bernstein is a data scientist who specializes in building statistical models that predict human behavior and is the co-host of the podcast EnterpriseSplaining about Star Trek: Enterprise.
Bobby Blackwolf is the co-owner of the VOG (Voice of Geeks) Network podcast network and Twitch channel and has hosted a live internet show and podcast about video games since 2005.
Marco Bossow is a director and producer best known for the hit Star Wars web series Bucketheads - starring Troy Mundle and Mark Meer.
Jonathan Brazee is a retired US Marine colonel, full-time hybrid writer, USA Today bestseller, two-time Dragon Award finalist, two-time Nebula Award finalist, and the current Nebula Award Commissioner for SFWA.
Doug Burbey is the author of the Blood War military urban fantasy series. In addition to writing, he is a DoD Program Manager for advanced military technology development efforts.
Martha Carr was a stringer for the Washington Post, national columnist, co-creator of Oriceran Universe, author of bestselling UF series, The Leira Chronicles, and a new trilogy, The Mermaid Detective.
Cathalson is an American author and screenwriter of over 50 publications. He is a fiction developer for Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. and AntiMatter Games.
Catieosaurus is a mental health advocate, content creator, and actual play performer. As a professional streamer and TTRPG influencer, she opens conversations about neurodiversity and accessibility into the gaming community.
New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima writes fantasy stories for teens of all ages, including The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms quartet, and The Shattered Realms series. Her newest duology, The Runestone Saga, marries Norse mythology and witchcraft with swordplay (axeplay?) romance and cut-throat politics.
Crystal Cleveland is an award winning actress, published model, horror short director, and Gruesome Magazine YouTube host for all things happening in horror films.
Ryan Consell is an engineering professor, costumer, prop maker, and author with particular expertise in engineering science with research focused on composite materials and bicycle destruction.
Bestselling author Jason Cordova has had his novels published in multiple languages around the world. The author is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist.
Michael Corrie, aka Props To History, is a prop maker/SFX artist and prop master for film, TV, and theatre. Props To History is a film, prop, and SFX historian.
The MuscleNerdz host with the most. You have seen him on social media, with his Superman cosplays and Nerd Traps! Ryan Crissey is back to bring you an amazing showdown!
Stephanie Crugnola is a chaotic, wholesome content creator specializing in Shakespeare, collaborative storytelling, soccer, and all things niche nerd.
Keith R.A. DeCandido has written tons of novels, short fiction, and comics in licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, in his own milieus in the fictional cities of Cliff's End and Super City, and also New York and Key West.
Science teacher and education researcher Lali DeRosier promotes youth involvement in science through student writing, art, and outreach. She tackles themes of science and diversity in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
Lucienne Diver is a slinger of snark, specifically within Vamped and Latter-Day Olympians series. Falstaff Books will release her epic fantasy, The Shadow Girls, in July/August 2024.
Sean Fletcher is the Amazon bestselling, award winning author of a number of YA fantasy series. He can be found speaking, teaching writing, and working as a professional editor.
Talented author and top flight editor, Jamie Beth "J.B." Garner has written over a dozen novels across multiple genres and edited hundreds more.
Seressia Glass is an author of 30 works including Sons of Anubis and Shadowchasers. Her latest works are The Love Con and Game On.
Nicoli Gonnella writes Unbound, a bestselling LitRPG saga that has 10 books and counting.
Best known for work on roleplaying and computer games, Andrew Greenberg runs the Georgia Game Developers Association, Southern Interactive Entertainment and Games Expo (SIEGE), and has credits on 100+ game products.
Isabelle Hardesty is the author of several YA book series, The Destroyer Witch Chronicles, The Delacourt Shapeshifter Trilogy, Viola the Vampire Witch, and Sea Witch High.
Laura Hayden writes in a wide variety of genres. With 15 novels under her belt, she is also a founder and an eleven-time director of the Pikes Peak Writers Conference.
Hugh Howey is the New York Times bestselling author of Wool, Beacon 23, Sand, and over 20 other titles. His novel, Wool, was adapted into the TV show Silo on Apple TV and his book, Beacon 23, has two seasons on MGM+.
Storm Humbert has published in Andromeda Spaceways, Apex, Interzone, Galaxy's Edge, Cast of Wonders, and many anthologies, including Writers of the Future #36.
Kristin Jackson is the director of communications and graphic designer for Frostbite Pictures, and worked on international and domestic art for Paramount Pictures and art for Dutch Boy Pictures.
Defying odds is what #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon does best. She has placed more than 80 novels on the NYT list in all formats and genres. With more than 70 million books in print, her series include: Dark-Hunters®, Chronicles of Nick®, Deadman's Cross™, and The League®.
Dakota Krout is an internationally bestselling author of fantasy and LitRPG with over 45 titles in his Completionist Chronicles, Divine Dungeon, Full Murderhobo, and Cooking with Disaster series.
K.N. Lee is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of epic fantasy, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance. She is also the host of Needed on Set.
Rob Levy is a writer, blogger, DJ, and podcaster who has been published in several anthologies. He co-hosts the Modern Musicology and Weekend Justice podcasts, and Juxtaposition on KDHX radio.
Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue has been a professional writer for over seven years. He has published 20 books, having started the dungeon core subgenre with his original, The Slime Dungeon.
Amazon bestseller, Megan Mackie is the author of The Lucky Devil series, the Dead World series, The Adventures of Pavlov's Dog and Schrodinger's Cat, and the Working Mask series.
U.S. Army veteran Scott Macmann writes, edits, and publishes a range of speculative fiction; as well as writing and producing independent films.
Thomas Mariani is a staff writer for Film Cred, host of the podcast Cinema To The Letter, and has been a panelist for nine straight Dragon Cons.
Morgan A. McLaughlin McFarland owns Salt Circle Games, publisher of the horror RPG Chill. She is a published fiction, nonfiction, and TTRPG author who also teaches writing and gaming classes.
Mark Meer is known for his work on Bioware's Mass Effect trilogy, voicing Commander Shepard, Blasto, and more. Other voice credits include the Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age series, Neverwinter Nights, Hinterland Studio's The Long Dark, Starro the Conquerer in WB Games' Gotham Knights, and Deadalus in Beamdog's MythForce.
Travis Scott Merrill currently works as a specialty costumer and break-down artist with IATSE local 479. He has worked on some of the biggest budget movies in the world. You can see his art in professional theater, television, and across the Marvel and DC Cinematic Universes.
Savannah Miller is a public health professional that has studied a range of public health topics including climate change, infectious disease, vaccines, toxicology, and health policy.
Mark Muncy is the bestselling author of the Eerie Florida and Eerie Appalachia book series from History Press. He is also the host of the Eerie Travels podcast.
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as "spoiling cats". When not engaged in this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction. She has published over 50 books and more than 170 stories. Nye teaches writing seminars and is Coordinating Judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.
Jon R. Osborne hails from Indianapolis. He writes modern fantasy and military science fiction, and his novel A Tempered Warrior was a 2018 Dragon Award Best Fantasy finalist.
Rachel Rawlings is a USA Today and international bestselling author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. Her book, Ink It Over, is currently in development for film.
Rose Reynolds has published 31 novels under the pen names TJ Reynolds and Atlas Kane. A transgender woman, she has found a home in the progression fantasy and LitRPG communities.
B.A. Richards aka Alison Sky Richards received an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Colorado University. Their passion involves teaching students to find their unique voice.
Seth Ring loves telling stories, building worlds, and sharing those stories and worlds with other people. Check out his YouTube channel for his advice on writing and being an author.
Rob Roberts is an internet broadcasting veteran and co-creator of Orange Lounge Radio, the longest running weekly show about video games online since 2002.
Jynxie Rose is a LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent/AuDHD, family friendly content creator. Her community, The CephaloSquad, fosters a safe/cozy environment that fights bullying and raises awareness of mental health and self-care.
Amber works in her spare time creating magic for kids as a professional Character Entertainer. Last year, she portrayed Bluey and helped organize the Character Encounter for the Kids Track!
Bruce Sentar is a veteran fantasy writer spinning vibrant fantasy tales in his polyamorous fantasy series. He has over three dozen novels, most of which have reached international bestseller lists.
Shirtaloon is the author of the bestselling LitRPG series He Who Fights with Monsters.
R. Alan Siler is an author, editor, musician, podcaster, owner of kOZMIC Creative, and the author of four books about Doctor Who and a children's book Lucy Can't Dance.
Daviorr Snipes is the Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Stratford Festival Theatre in Ontario, Canada and a Peabody Award winning actor working in theatre, film, and voice.
Anne Sowards is an executive editor at Penguin Random House, where she primarily acquires and edits fantasy and speculative fiction for the Ace and Berkley imprints. The talented authors she works with include New York Times bestsellers Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, and Kim Harrison.
Ash Sroka, known as Tali'Zorah in Bioware's Mass Effect trilogy, has been acting professionally since age six. She has worked for Comedy Central, CBS, Fox, ABC, Nickelodeon, and Nick Jr. In addition to being a voiceover, TV, film, and theater actor, Sroka is a writer, dancer, and medical clown.
Andrea Stewart is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Drowning Empire trilogy. Her debut, The Bone Shard Daughter, was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
Alain TheDungeonMeowster is an entertainer, performer, and tabletop professional. He is the co-founder of Goblins and Growlers, co-creator of the Quid Pro Roll podcast, creator of CelebriD&D, and Madlibs Tabletop.
Solar Wolf Cosplay is an award winning cosplayer and has been published in several cosplay magazines such as Cosplay Realms. His work has been in several cosplay showcases.
Arras Wiedorn is an animal behaviorist and professional informal science educator. She is also the owner of Endangered Art Books, which aims to bring scientific education to the public.
M.C. Williams is a structural engineer, podcaster, and writer. He spends his nights getting lost in ancient mythologies, futuristic civilizations, and unspeakable horrors.
Tao Wong is a full-time author in the scifi and fantasy genres, writing predominantly in the LitRPG and xianxia subgenres. He is a multiple-time international Amazon bestseller.
Paris Arrowsmith's career has spanned stage, voice acting, and screen. After moving to LA, he started working as a podcaster on No Latency and freelance TTRPG writer for R. Talsorian Games.
Jay Boyce, daughter of a librarian and wielder of words, is primarily an editor turned writer. She currently writes A Touch of Power and Rise of the Mystic Mage series.
Rachel A. Brune is an Army veteran, former military journalist, novelist, and editor of the creepy and macabre. She is the Senior Editor of Falstaff Books's new horror imprint, Falstaff Dread.
Wesley Chu is the NYT bestselling author of many novels, including The Art of Prophecy, Time Salvager, and The Walking Dead: Typhoon. He co-wrote The Eldest Curses with Cassandra Clare. His debut, The Lives of Tao, won the YALSA Alex Award. He won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
Joe Corroney has been illustrating Star Wars artwork for Disney and Lucasfilm and Star Trek artwork for CBS Studios since 1997, as well as a host of other properties. New Star Wars artwork and various other licensees are in the works for publication later this year.
Milton Davis is an award winning Black speculative fiction author and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a publishing company specializing in science fiction and fantasy based on African/African Diaspora history, culture, and traditions.
Dr. Charles E. Gannon‘s 25+ bestselling books have won the Dragon, ALA Choice, and Compton Crook Awards. He is best known for the hard sci-fi Caine Riordan series (four Nebula and two Dragon finalists) and The Vortex of Worlds epic fantasy saga (the most recent was a 2023 Dragon finalist).
Michael Gordon is a writer, editor, publisher, and podcaster. His creator-owned comic, Tiki Zombie, has been running for over a decade. He can also be regularly found saying “Howdy!” on the Earth Station One, Earth Station Who, and Dragon Con Report podcasts.
M. Haynes is the mind behind the popular Elemental novel series, an educator, a blogger, and public speaker who hopes to show that everyone has the elements of a hero.
Intense gamer, former teacher, and current mastermind of all around mayhem, Madaug Hishinuma first started writing in grade school. His current series include: Shadow Wars, Space Sovereign, and Sherrilyn's Worlds.
Topher Hunter is a professional biomedical science communicator and amateur droid builder, with a passion for trying new things and helping others to not make the same mistakes he/they made.
Richard Kadrey is the NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, which was included in Amazon's 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime. He has been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards, appeared in Year's Best Horror, and written for comics, film, and games.
Sue Kisenwether has been podcasting about sci-fi TV and movies since 2010. Currently, she co-hosts Women at Warp, exploring Star Trek through a feminist lens.
Andy Presby is currently the Deputy Project Manager for the Fission Surface Power Project and leads NASA Glenn Research Center's team supporting the Space Nuclear Propulsion Project.
David Sherrer is the marketing director and lead game designer of Chenoweth Press. His debut card game, Cat Magic: The Game, released in 2022 and was funded on Kickstarter.
TJ Sterling is a former Marvel and DC comics artist. Sterling also publishes comics through his own imprint, RAE Comics, and is a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon Art.
Vanessa Ionta Wright is an Atlanta-based filmmaker who founded and runs the Renegade Film Festival. She recently produced a feature film, SpookT, that should be released sometime in 2024.
Matt Dinniman is the author of the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl book and manga series.
Naomi Romero is a character designer for animation and illustrator for children's literature. They have worked for DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Sesame Workshop, Illumination Studios, Hasbro, Spin Master, and more. Romero is the current artist for the new baby dragon plush for Dragon Con.
Corinne Roberts is an illustrator working in comics and children's books (Bug Bites, Drawing Dragons, and the Out and About series). Her other illustration projects include: Dragon Calendars, Wanderlust card deck, Unreal Estate, and more.
Bestselling author, M.A. Rothman is an engineer first and foremost, and somehow or another this writing habit of his has turned into a bit more than just a run-of-the-mill hobby.
Jarrod Alberich is the creator of his own original comic book, Hamilton vs. Burr: A Werewolf Tale. He is the writer for Z2 Comics, a trading card artist for Marvel Comics & Upper Deck, cover artist & inker for White Rocket Books, and a US Air Force combat veteran.
Tim Doyle is an illustrator and printmaker from Austin. He self-published Amazing Adult Fantasy and was the art director/lead designer for Mondo. He has produced art for Marvel, Dark Horse, Cartoon Network, Studio Canal, and art directs poster series for bands such as Metallica, Failure, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
Kenneth Hite has written 100+ tabletop roleplaying game books, including the Star Trek Roleplaying Game, Trail of Cthulhu, The Dracula Dossier, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, and Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. He is half of the multiple-award-winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.
Bobby Nash is an award winning author, artist, and actor. He writes novels, comic books, short stories, screenplays, audio dramas, and more. Nash is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, International Thriller Writers, and Southeastern Writers Association.
Atlanta-based cartoonist, animation director, and illustrator Robert Pope draws Looney Tunes for DC comics, and Snoopy and the Peanuts gang for Simon and Schuster. Over the past 35 years, Pope has drawn Scooby-Doo, Batman The Brave And The Bold, Johnny Bravo, Grim Adventures, Powerpuff Girls, and many, many more.
Robert J. Sawyer has won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards; all for best science fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his Aurora Award winning novel of the same name, and he was one of the writers for that program.
Jamie Tyndall is a Canadian Comic Book artist that has worked in the industry for over 10 years. He has worked for various publishers including Red Sonja, Vampirella, The Boys, Lady Death, TMNT, and Zenescope. Tyndall worked with Fox Studios on movies like Deadpool and X-Men.
Jennifer Whitworth is a NASA engineer working at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. She supports Artemis and Gateway Payload Integration destined for the Gateway Station or Lunar surface.
Bryan Young has written in the BattleTech, Robotech, Doctor Who, and Shadowrun universes. Most recently, he wrote the companion book for The Big Bang Theory.
Thom Zahler created the Webtoons Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label as well as Love and Capes, Long Distance, and Time and Vine. He writes and draws for IDW's My Little Pony series, has written for Disney Tsum Tsum, Star Trek, Disney XD's Ultimate Spider-Man, and Knights of the Zodiac.
BREED is a professional Sequential/Pre-Production/Animation artist whose work has been featured by Marvel Comics, Zenescope Entertainment, 20th Century Studios, IDW, Source Point Press, Counterpoint Comics, Stranger Comics, Action Lab Entertainment, Mountaineer West Productions, UpperDeck Co./MCU, Kymera Press, Entity Eye Entertainment, Warrant Publishing, and multiple production companies.
Jennie Breeden is the creator of The Devil's Panties, a slice of life webcomic that has been posting daily since 2001. She has also been chasing kilted men around Dragon Con with her leaf blower for years.
Richard Lee Byers's books include The Things That Crawl, The Hep Cats of Ulthar, and This Sword for Hire. He has also written short fiction, a graphic novel, and gaming material. His screenplay The Plague Knight, based on one of his fantasy novelettes, is in pre-production.
Chandra Free is the creator of The God Machine graphic novel and webcomic series, and co-founder of Machina Corpse. She illustrated on books like John Carpenter's Tales For A Halloween Night, Fraggle Rock, and The Graphic Canon. She has worked on TTRPG books like Carbon Grey.
Bernadette Johnson has written 50+ articles for HowStuffWorks.com, The Big Book of Spy Trivia, The Big Book of Horse Trivia for Kids, and The Big Book of Cryptid Trivia.
Amy J. Murphy is a two-time Dragon Award nominee, a SFWA member, and a submissions reader for Apex Magazine. Murphy lives in Vermont where she works as a registered nurse.
Van Allen Plexico is a multi-award-winning writer best known for the Sentinels illustrated superhero novels and comics, 1960s crime novels, and The Shattering space opera universe. His White Rocket Entertainment network features multiple video and podcast channels covering James Bond, Babylon 5, The Avengers, and more.
JM Tuffley writes about pop culture for various outlets and contributes to Need Coffee Dot Com's Weekend Justice podcast.
Robert Wilson IV is a comic artist and illustrator living in Dallas, TX. He is the co-creator and artist of Heartthrob at Oni Press with writer Christopher Sebela and colorist Nick Filardi. He also co-created Knuckleheads at IDW / Monkeybrain with Brian Winkeler and Like A Virus with Ken Lowery.
L. Marie Wood is a psychological horror author, recipient of the Golden Stake Award, a MICO Award winning screenwriter, a two-time Bram Stoker Award® finalist, VP of HWA, and English professor.
Kevin Grazier, PhD is a planetary physicist by education and is currently on the faculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. Grazier was previously a scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn. He has served as the science advisor for several television series and films and is co-author of the Hollyweird Science series of science books.
Bill Mulligan is an author, indie filmmaker, and podcaster. He can be heard on The Videostore Junkies and Decades of Horror podcasts. His novel, RAUM, was published by Falstaff Books.
Joelle Presby is a veteran U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and author of crunchy SF Dabare and steampunk telepaths at war with mages SF Multiverse (co-written with David Weber).
Aaron Michael Ritchey has written over 50 novels. He has been an Amazon All Star, and the first book in The Juniper Wars series was a Dragon Award finalist.
Torrey Stenmark is an organic chemist, associate instructor, and an award winning costumer. She has taught almost every chemistry course on offer at Shoreline Community College.
DL Wainright uses their degree in world religions and lifelong love of horror to write creepy books that incorporate folklore and mythology, which means someone gets eaten in every one!
Michael Bailey has been a podcaster since 2007, when he launched his first show Views From The Longbox. He has hosted, co-hosted, or guest hosted on a number of podcasts.
D..J. Bodden is a sci-fi and fantasy author of 10 books and counting. He has written in the LitRPG Viridian Gate Online universe and created the science fiction FiveFold Universe.
Robert "Brad" Bradley is a former industrial chemist and the Research Director for The Center for Paranormal Research and Investigation. He has appeared in an episode of Ghost Hunters.
Bill Bridges is a writer and game designer most known for developing White Wolf's World of Darkness and the Fading Suns science fiction universe.
Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), retired US Navy officer, writes the series Doomed Earth, New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet, Genesis Fleet, Lost Stars, and "steampunk meets high fantasy" Pillars of Reality. His latest books are In Our Stars, The Empress of the Endless Sea trilogy, and Rendezvous with Corsair.
Dr. Paul Currie is a health science administrator and recovering biology and chemistry professor. He has given numerous talks on the use of pop culture in teaching.
Michael Falkner is a writer and podcaster at Creative Criticality. He is the author of the Timestamps Project and is also one of the leaders for Dragon Con Newbies.
Dr. Craig Greathouse, professor of political science at UNG, has published on topics European foreign policy, security and defense policy, strategic culture, strategic thought, international relations theory, and cyber war.
Matthew Jarrett has extensive experience as a manufacturing engineer, process engineer, and quality engineer supporting development and manufacturing in the aerospace, defense, and implantable medical device industries.
Erika Lance is a writer of horror, suspense, sci-fi, and a little fantasy. She is also the host of the Eerie Travels and Drinking With Authors podcasts.
Sarah J. Sover is the author of the urban fantasy Fractured Fae series (Fairy Godmurder, Faed to Black) and the comedic fantasy Double-Crossing the Bridge, from Falstaff Books.
Shami Stovall is a Dragon Award nominee for best YA Fantasy. She loves her husband John, reading, video games, and her doggos. She co-owns her publishing company, Capital Station Books.
Marisa Wolf writes science fiction, fantasy, and every point in-between. She has six co-written novels, a solo novel from Baen Beyond Enemies, and over 20 short stories in print.
Jessi Ann York's stories have been featured at PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates Media, Love Letters to Poe, and more.
A.J. Hartley AKA Andrew Hart is the bestselling author of 26 novels including Hideki Smith, Burning Shakespeare, Cold Bath Street, Impervious, Steeplejack, and (with Tom DeLonge of Blink 182) Sekret Machines. He is Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte and has a J-rock YouTube channel.
Courtney Lytle is a practicing attorney and adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law. She specializes in intellectual property law and is a partner at Culhane Meadows.
Gray Rinehart is a USAF space operations veteran, a writer, and singer/songwriter. His music has been on The Dr. Demento Show and he is the "Slushmaster General" for Baen Books.
Jennifer Blackstream is a USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is amazed to have made a writing career out of a master's degree in psychology.
Burton is an author, professor, marketer, live-stream producer, and podcaster. Her podcast, Geek Meets Social, explores living a digital life and her love of Disney, Star Wars, coffee, and geekdom.
Beth Dolgner writes paranormal fiction and nonfiction, including Nightmare, Arizona Paranormal Cozy Mysteries. She gives talks about Victorian death customs and Spiritualism, is a ghost tour guide and ghost hunter.
USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Edelheit has captivated millions with his Stiger's Tigers fantasy series. His passion for history and military seeps into his works, earning him multiple awards.
Kevin Eldridge produces and hosts The Flopcast, a weekly pop culture comedy podcast. He is a published science fiction author, an organizer and host of skeptic events, and comedy musician.
Jess Eppstein is a former immortal hydra wrangler who spent a year putting tiny contacts on mutant mice in the dark. She now tells scientists how to do their job.
"Dr.Rob" Hampson hasn't quite figured out what he wants to do when he grows up. He's a neuroscientist who recently joined an issue engineering and regeneration institute, an SF/F consultant on nonfiction topics ranging from brain science to bionics, and writes fiction ranging from zombies, to military SF, to…bionics!
Drew Hayes is an author from Dallas who has written several series including Super Powereds, Villains' Code, NPCs, Fred the Vampire Accountant, and 5-Minute Sherlock.
Actress, playwright, narrator, and author for Tor and Kensington, her Strangely Beautiful saga won numerous genre awards and her nonfiction, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. She has been featured on Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown.
Walter H. Hunt is a science fiction and historical fiction writer from Massachusetts. He has 11 published novels and is currently working on his third novel in the 1632 universe.
Author of fantasy, SF, horror, post-apocalyptic fantasy, fantasy/romance, and many tie-in novels with gaming publishers and other IPs; Chris Jackson has been at the writing game a long time.
Charlie Kaufman has worked extensively in environmental consulting, academia where he studied coastal erosion, and natural disaster impacts. He currently works for the government, so he is here to help.
Astronomer Bill Keel is the author of The Sky at Einstein's Feet and The Road to Galaxy Formation. He hosts overnight live astronomy sessions and has spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, citizen discovery in astronomy, science in the Firefly and Avatar universes, spy satellites, and astronomical tourism.
Dr. Darin Kennedy writes and practices medicine. Works include the Fugue & Fable trilogy, The Pawn Stratagem trilogy, the Songs of the Ascendant series, Carol, and The April Sullivan Chronicles.
Astrophysicist Steph LaMassa works at the Space Telescope Science Institute on JWST and researches supermassive black holes.
Philip Ligon is an international bestselling author and Dragon Award finalist. His works range from steampunk to alternate history to fantasy.
F.T. Lukens is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult speculative fiction. Their most recently release is Otherworldly.
Alex Matsuo is an author and paranormal investigator who has been seen on shows: Paranormal Revenge, Tubi's Scariest Places in the World, Haunted Hospitals, and Most Terrifying Places in America.
Bob McGough is an author, podcaster, and indie tabletop game designer. He is the author of the Jubal County Saga series and host of the Books, Beards, Booze Podcast.
Dr. Joseph Meany is a science consultant and director of The Interstellar Research Group. He is a co-producer of the podcast series, From Here to the Stars.
Violette Meier, the great-granddaughter of a dream interpreter, is a lover of all things supernatural and loves to write paranormal, fantasy, horror, among other genres.
James Nettles is a business and technology consultant, speculative fiction and nonfiction author, founder of Author Essentials workshop company, and a founder of the ConTinual convention.
When JM Paquette is not writing fantasy and paranormal romance novels, she can be found teaching English, dissecting grammar, discussing Tolkien, editing, and guest co-hosting the podcast Drinking with Authors.
Sean Michael Patton is a 20+ year costume design veteran and has designed more than 40 stage productions, eight short films, five features, and numerous media projects.
Berta Platas is an award winning author of YA and urban fantasy. Her current title in a new paranormal cozy mystery series set in Charleston, SC, is Fine Ground Murder.
Noel Plaugher writes fiction and nonfiction. Author of Standing Qigong for Health and Martial Arts and The Lady Dragon of Chinatown, he has written for Black Belt Magazine.
Phillip Pournelle is a science fiction author, war game designer, operations analyst, and military strategist. He has published several short stories for Baen and contributed to the latest Janissaries novel.
Ellie Raine is a Writer's Digest award winning author of the NecroSeam Chronicles. She is fueled by coffee concoctions brewed by the finest caffeine alchemists in the kingdom of Atlanta.
William Joseph Roberts is an award winning author, editor, and publisher with Three Ravens Publishing who lives with his loving wife, three smart children, and a pack of fur babies.
Robert W. Ross is the author of the award winning Sentinels of Creation contemporary fantasy and Paradigm 2045 sci-fi series, and is a guest lecturer at Ga Tech and KSU.
Steve Saffel has worked at Del Rey and Titan Books editing SF, fantasy, horror, and licensed fiction. He has collaborated with Eric Flint, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Graham Jones, Stan Lee, Robert McGinnis, David Morrell, Scott Sigler; and on Alien, Batman, Black Panther, Conan, Mass Effect, Spider-Man, Star Wars, among others.
Tony Sarrecchia creates audio dramas including the award winning Harry Strange Radio Drama, the Scarlett Hood Adventures, and the Lady Sherlock Mysteries. He also writes screenplays, novels, and short stories.
Kim Steadman is a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently she is a systems engineer for the Perseverance Rover Engineering Operations team and the technical group supervisor for the Integrated Planning and Sequencing for Surface Missions group. She has also worked on Opportunity, Curiosity, and Cassini.
Bad Ash Publishing owner, Mel Todd has published over 40 stories. Between her Kaylid Chronicles anthologies, Blood War, and Twisted Luck series she has over two million words published.
Jack Trammell is a professor, author, researcher, and student of the paranormal. His books and talks range from vampires to Artificial Intelligence.
R.R. Virdi is a USA Today bestselling author, two-time Dragon Award finalist, Nebula Award finalist, and has published 10+ novels under science fiction and fantasy, including Tales of Tremaine.
Constance G.J. Wagner, writer, editor, and Tolkien scholar, has spoken regularly on all things Middle-earth at both academic and fan-friendly events nationally and internationally.
Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. Her credits include a multi-award nominated novel, numerous short stories, and two popular art books. The former editor of CrescentBlues.com, she is the author interviewer for Book Bale and a frequent contributor to the online convention ConTinual.
Sean Weiland is the program manager for Kingsisle Entertainment, voice actor, award winning game developer, bartender, and podcaster. He currently hosts Wasted Knowledge and Tipple Theory.
Dave West is an actor and interviewer who also hosts game shows, wrestling events, and rock-'n'-roll concerts. He can be found on the Needless Things YouTube channel.
Ben Yalow has attended 900+ conventions, and worked on about a third of them, including co-chairing the 2023 WorldCon in Chengdu, China. He is also a Hugo nominated editor.
Mark Zoran is an internationally recognized and award winning restorer of screen-used creations, costume and prop creator, and the creative mind behind Razorfly Studios.
Curt Anderson is a professional magician and speaker. He has performed across the country, around the world, and on worldwide television. His brand of performance is a fusion of magic, mental feats, and physical stunts that will leave you wondering what is real and what is magic.
Kevin Bachelder's podcasts have won four Parsec Awards in the Best Fan Podcast category. He also leads the Dragon Con Newbies group, which puts on events to help new attendees.
D.J. "Dave" Butler has been a lawyer, a consultant, a corporate trainer, and a registered investment banking representative. He is now a consulting editor for Baen Books.
Kevin Cafferty is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, head of creative at a Fortune 500 company, and podcaster.
R.E. Carr is the award winning author of the Rules Undying series, as well as exploring horror comedy and science fiction over her 20+ year book career.
Freddy Clements is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Jacksonville State University, where he taught classes in costume/makeup design and technology for the department of theatre and film. He has designed costumes for various regional theatres and has extensive experience in early 20th century corsetry and kilt construction.
Kacey Ezell is a retired helicopter pilot who writes multigenre speculative fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award finalist for Best Alternate History and has written multiple bestselling novels.
Clay Gilbert has always believed in the power of the imagination to dissolve differences and forge connections between people. His most recent novel is the space fantasy Binary Sunset.
Dwayne Goetzel is an Austin-based intellectual property attorney specializing in trademarks, copyrights, contracts, licensing, and trial work in those areas. He takes a special interest in politics and governance.
Darrell Z. Grizzle is a queer horror, urban fantasy, and thriller writer. He is the author of I Never Meant to Start a Murder Cult.
K.T. Hanna is an author known for her series Somnia Online, Library System Reset, and The System Apocalypse Australia (with Tao Wong). She is entirely powered by caffeine, Chipotle, and sarcasm.
John G. Hartness is an author, publisher, and editor from Charlotte, NC. He is the author of multiple series, including the award winning Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter series. He is also the publisher of Falstaff Books and founder of the SAGA Genre Fiction Writers' Conference.
Tony P. Henderson is a moderator, podcaster, and voice over artist known for the Tony P. Oddcast, In Addition, and Geek Vs podcasts.
Stuart Jaffe is the madman behind the Nathan K thrillers, The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries, The Ridnight Mysteries, the Parallel Society novels, The Malja Chronicles, The Bluesman, Founders, Real Magic, and much more.
G.S. Jennsen is a bestselling author of 20+ novels and short stories. Starshine was named one of the best sci-fi novels by a woman in the last 50 years.
Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy, steampunk, and more. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and Night Vigil. Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, Chronicles of the Necromancer, The Fallen Kings Cycle, The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and Assassins of Landria.
Tamsin Silver is a fantasy author based out of Albuquerque, NM, with a background in theatre and education. She writes both historical fantasy (about Billy the Kid) and urban fantasy.
Allen Slonaker has been involved in paranormal research, as a member of the Center for Paranormal Research and Investigation (CPRI), since 2007 and currently serves as the Central Virginia Regional Director.
A forensic anthropologist by training, but a science communicator by passion, Emily Finke has spent the past 20 years teaching in museums, nature centers, pubs, conventions, and more.
James Palmer is an award winning writer of sci-fi and pulp adventure, author of the Shadow Council Archives series, and editor of the Monster Earth series and League of Monsters.
