Just who are the cast of The 42cast? We’re a group of fans connected by our common love of geeky stuff. If you’re interested in learning more about someone that you’ve heard on the show, read on and follow any links that you see. Check back. As we have more people on this page will continue to expand.
Nathan – The Host
Nathan can’t remember a time when he wasn’t a fan of Star Wars and Star Trek. His life was changed forever when he saw the Doctor Who episode “The Seeds of Doom” at the tender age of five. The series quickly replaced Star Trek as his favorite TV show, and started a lifelong obsession with the British sci-fi series. Over the years, Nathan also developed obsessions with video games, Marvel Comics, Babylon 5, and anime. In recent years, Nathan started Blogger Who, a site dedicated to his love of Doctor Who. He also frequently contributes reviews of Doctor Who audio dramas and movies to The ESO Network. Nathan has guested on many podcasts including Shauncastic, Earth Station One, Earth Station Who, The Revcast, and That Girl with the Curls. Eventually tired of being a bridesmaid and never a bride, Nathan decided to start his own podcast, to give he and his friends their own forum to talk about their views on multiple geeky topics. Nathan’s dream is to one day be a published novelist and perhaps write an audio drama for Big Finish.
Beth
If you hopped into a time machine and found 10 year old Beth, her only exposure to the geek world would have been Return of the Jedi and Indiana Jones. If you had told her what her life is like now, she would have laughed in your face, kicked you in the shins, and run away. Or challenged and later defeated you at four-square, tetherball, and kickball. Simultaneously.
Beth is now mostly a stay at home mom for Nathan’s two beautiful genius daughters. She ventures out into the world disguised as an adult to work retail at a fabric store a few days a week before donning her home-made Hello Kitty PJ pants and a Batman hoodie and diving into the basement, where she works her magic. For you see, Beth is a cosplayer – a seamstress by trade – and if you know how to navigate around her unreasonably high stacks of fabric bins, you might just make it to her crafting table.
She’s a bit introverted at first, but once she’s warmed up to the crowd, you might find it difficult to shut her up.
You can follow her on Facebook and Etsy: @MrsWhiskersStudios
Rachele Alexander
Rachele (pronounced “Rachel”) is an art/film geek, animation enthusiast, and voracious reader. By day she’s a UX designer working in mobile app design. Nights see her caught up with drawing, watching, and reading all the things. She also studies Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and aims to one day become a Firebender. Guillermo del Toro is her Patronus. If you’re interested in seeing more of her work, check out her tumblr page, Hues and Blues.
Lee Arenberg
Lee Arenberg has the remarkable ability to morph himself into frightening aliens, twisted psychotherapists, lascivious entertainment executives and everything in between. Most frequently referred to as a character actor, Arenberg maintains a flourishing acting career–almost 20 years spanning television, stage and film. Arenberg has appeared in more than 30 movies, including Cradle Will Rock (1999), RoboCop 3 (1993), Waterworld (1995), Bob Roberts (1992), The Apocalypse (1997), Cross My Heart (1987) and the fantasy adventure feature Dungeons & Dragons (2000). Bitten by the acting bug at age eight when he portrayed David in his Hebrew school play, “Killing Goliath”, Arenberg notes that the parable “could be the title of any actor’s chances in this game.” A native Angeleno, Lee attended Santa Monica high school with “brat packers” Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr. and Emilio Estevez, and co-wrote a play with Estevez which was directed by Penn. Lee’s first professional job was in 1986 at the Mark Taper Forum in “Ghetto”, a play directed by Gordon Davidson. Within weeks he was cast in three films, including the role of Norton in the feature Tapeheads (1988)opposite Tim Robbins and John Cusack. Guest appearances on television began in 1987 with the hit sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986), and have continued with memorable roles such as the parking space-stealing New Yorker on Seinfeld (1989) and as the murderous rock promoter opposite Katey Sagal and Sam Kinison in Tales from the Crypt (1989), as well as roles on Arli$$ (1996), Friends (1994), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995). Arenberg can also be seen in the role of the notoriously huge studio head, Bobby G., on the controversial syndicated comedy Action (1999) opposite series star Jay Mohr. Arenberg names his family and friends as his inspirations, and states that having grown up on Los Angeles’ Westside, he was able to see actors as the parents of friends and classmates, not as just as movie stars. He credits “fear of failure” as his main motivation, and admires the talents and creativity of such legendary actors Paul Muni, Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff. Lee also credits much of his development as an actor to his participation in the Actors’ Gang, one of Los Angeles’ oldest theater companies. The Actors’ Gang was founded by Lee in 1981 with Tim Robbins and other friends from UCLA. In his leisure time, Arenberg enjoys golf, cooking, blues harmonica, video games and pitching for his softball team Bubblin’ Crude, which is made up of other actors, many of whom are friends from high school. He is involved with St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and other children’s health causes, and animal rights organizations, participating regularly in fund raising efforts on behalf of those charitable causes.
Miranda Belle
Miranda Belle is a lifelong nerd, having been a fan of Star Trek for as long as she can remember. After falling in love with Doctor Who in her teen years, she discovered the world of fandom, cons, and cosplay, where she made friends from across the globe. When not binge watching classic sci-fi tv or sewing costumes, she devotes her time to her other passion, live theatre, where she enjoys taking on roles both on stage and behind the scenes.
George Buza
George Buza was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and resides in Toronto, Ontario. George is an actor known for playing Dr. Hank McCoy AKA The Beast in X-Men: The Animated Series and X-Men 97 as well as voicing the chief in Ewoks. He has also had major roles in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Sinbad, The Brain, X-Men (2000), Maniac Mansion (1990), and FX’s The Strain.
Buza is a biker, former bouncer, and avid stamp collector. Buza has been collecting stamps since he was 5 and now exhibits them internationally. He had good inspiration – his Hungarian grandfather once designed stamps.
Leigh Bennett-Conner
Leigh is half of the team producing the 50 Days of DragonCon podcast (she’s the talent, per Jon Boutelle), and is a random member of Weekend Justice podcast.
She loves all the true crime shows and documentaries, especially those that are Scandinavian; Kaiju are her jam; and her fandoms are all over the place.
She’s a wife and mother of one son and one very spoiled cat.
Oh, and she believes in lots of things, as seen per her masks.
Nate Benton
Nate Bob’s dulcet tones can’t be found anywhere but on the 42cast. His witty prose only grace his rare Facebook status updates. He has never graced the silver screen or the TV screen. He actually has no credentials that qualify him to be an expert on anything other than his mom was his first Dungeon Master and he loves playing board games and RPGs, and talking about game mechanics, movies and TV. He is very opinionated about lots of things and you may find it interesting to listen to him, but you honestly shouldn’t listen to anything he has to say about anything because he’s just a normal guy.
Page Branson
Page Branson is a QA bug smasher at Zenimax by day, a podcaster, freelance designer and comic book artist by night. She co hosts a Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast called Level 7 Access and her artwork has been featured at the LA Podcast Festival, on http://Nerdist.com, used as an album cover for comedian Jackie Kashian, hung in the old Colbert Report studios and various other random places of geekery. On camera, she’s featured on AMC’s Comic Book Men and was a subject in the film Ear Buds: The Podcasting Documentary. Her webcomic can be found at http://legacyscall.com
Bree Brouwer
Bree was introduced to the geek world when the sun started to set at the cabin in Flagstaff, AZ where her family was vacationing one winter; since she was stuck inside for the chilly night, her dad popped in a VHS of Star Wars, the original A New Hope). Bree’s life would never be the same. Now 30 years old, she has developed a love for typically-geek franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Marvel, DC, Chronicles of Narnia, Halo, Minecraft, Fallout, and more. Bree spends most of her time doing a job she loves: building up her expertise in freelance writing for online video and digital media brands (yes, that means she watches a lot of YouTube). In her free time, she talks about her love of geek business and entrepreneurship on Geek & Prosper, writes fan fiction, wrecks people in Halo, builds wicked structures in Minecraft, studies the intersection of philosophy and culture, researches her Dutch heritage, works out so she can drink craft beer with her hubby, and binges Netflix while snuggling with their adopted alley cat Mango. She is not a Cylon. She loves making new friends on Twitter.
Levi Burner
Levi Burner is a PhD student at the University of Maryland’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department where he studies control theory and computer vision. Prior to attending UMD he attended the University of Pittsburgh, which of course is how he met Zach Horton and got involved with Odyssey Now, and in particular reverse engineering the Odyssey.
Elliot Chapman
Elliot Chapman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked in theatre, television and on radio/audio (audio books, full cast dramas and voice over). He played Ben Jackson for Big Finish’s ‘Doctor Who The Early Adventures & The Companion Chronicles ranges between 2014 and 2019.
Eric Cheezum
Eric A. Cheezum holds a PhD in American History from the University of South Carolina, and credits Doctor Who with inspiring him to enter the History profession. He became a Who fan when he was eleven years old, after seeing “The Gunfighters,” and has loved the show ever since. He co-authored a biography of President Woodrow Wilson in 2003, and is currently researching a biography of Wilson’s Secretary of Agriculture, David F. Houston. He is also working on a manuscript about Chessie, the sea monster of the Chesapeake Bay. In addition to Doctor Who, he is a fan of Star Trek (especially TOS and TNG), Babylon 5, Blake’s 7, and The Avengers (the 1960s TV series), and many other shows too countless to mention. He considers Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner to be the greatest TV series ever made. He lives on the Delmarva Peninsula where he teaches and farms.
Jessica Combs
Jess is a science and comic book/super hero nerd. She loves discussing all thinks super hero and genre in general, especially shows that make you think. You can catch her on her podcast, Tomorrow’s Legends.
Lauren Cornelius
Lauren Cornelius has appeared in several productions for Big Finish, and is most famous for reprising the role of Dorothea ‘Dodo’ Chaplet – companion to The First Doctor. Dodo’s Big Finish debut was in ‘The Secrets of Det-Sen’ alongside Peter Purves in 2021, and her most recent adventures are alongside the recently announced First Doctor – Stephen Noonan – available now via Big Finish.
Further Big Finish credits include playing east-end cinema usherette Ivy Clark in ‘The Creeping Death’ alongside David Tennant and Cathetine Tate, Judith Shakespeare in The First Doctor Adventures: The Hollow Crown, Anjlis in The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Planet of Witches alongside Tom Baker, and as Maxine Mitchell in The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller alongside Eighth Doctor Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
As well as her work for the Doctor Who universe, Lauren is a regular on the airways at BBC Radio 4, and has recently finished filming for dark comedy feature ‘Murder Ballads: How To Make It In Rock ‘N Roll’, and the highly-anticipated new Amazon Prime series ‘The Power’.
Sam Cross
Sam Cross runs the Maniacal Geek website and hosts the That Girl with the Curls podcast. She’s a self-described “sponge” for pop culture and spends more time thinking about movies, comic books, cartoons, and television than some would consider healthy. At the very least, she’s good to have on a trivia team. In her spare time, Sam works as an Archivist in Seattle, WA and occasionally writes things that actually get published. In the past, Sam’s hair has been described as a character, said to be George Perez’s inspiration for Wonder Woman’s hair, and accused of plotting world domination. Sam says that it’s just hair.
Joe Crowe
Joe Crowe is an Addy-award winning freelance writer, copy editor, and proofreader. (And he works cheap! Write him at joebcrowe at gmail dot com.) Joe is the co-director with Gary Mitchel of DragonCon’s American Sci-Fi Classics Track, where they venture into the archives of sci-fi movie and TV awesomeness.
Joe is the co-founder with Shane Ivey of RevolutionSF.com and the RevolutionSF RevCast on the ESO Network, where hosts Gary Mitchel, Deanna Toxopeus, Tegan Hendrickson, and a cast of irregulars host a sci-fi convention right in your pocket (if you have a phone in your pocket.)
Joe’s writing has been called “Swiftean in its satirical eloquence” and “the worst piece of garbage I have ever seen.” Find more of both at the classic track twitter and Joe’s twitter.
Jeffrey Daum
Jeffrey Daum is the admin, audio engineer, and co-host of the podcast They Create Worlds. A generalist nerd who dabbles with technology. This has led him into a career with computers, managing a Dragon Quest fan site, an avid fan of psychological horror, and a lifelong gamer (Consoles and PC). Jeffrey enjoys any well told story and often has a podcast/audiobook readily to hand on his phone. It is due to this love of stories that he encouraged his co-host, Alex Smith, to collaborate on the podcast They Create Worlds.
Bill Duke
Bill Duke is an Actor, Director and Producer in Hollywood with more than 40 years of experience on screen and behind the camera. Duke is currently starring in Steven Soderbergh’s new crime drama No Sudden Move debuting, July 1, 2021 on HBO Max. His acting credits include recent television and feature film roles in shows like Black Lightning, The Oval, and the critically acclaimed film, Mandy, and Stephen Soderbergh film, High Flying Bird. He is also known for roles in Predator, American Gigolo, Car Wash, Action Jackson, Commando, Menace II Society, Bird on a Wire, Get Rich or Die Tryinʼ, X-Men 3, Henry’s Crime, The Big Bang, Starsky & Hutch, Charlieʼs Angels, Fastlane, Karen Sisco and Lost. His directing credits include television the series Falcon Crest, Fame, Hill Street Blues, and PBSʼ The Killing Floor, for which he won the Sundance Special Jury Award in 1985. Films include A Rage in Harlem (1991), Sister Act 2, Deep Cover, Hoodlum, The Cemetery Club, Cover, Not Easily Broken and the documentary Dark Girls and Light Girls (OWN).
In addition to working on creative projects in Hollywood, Bill gives back in multiple ways to the world. He created Duke Media Entertainment to bring quality “Edutainment” to audiences around the globe.
And for the future leaders of the world, Bill created and runs the Duke Media Foundation, an organization that prepares youth for the future by exposing them to new media and financial literacy tools that will enable them to compete, survive and thrive in this ever-changing digital world.
Emma Dumont
Emma Dumont is an American actress, model, and dancer. She is known for her roles as Melanie Segal in ‘Bunheads’, Emma Karn in ‘Aquarius’, and Lorna Dane/Polaris in ‘The Gifted’. She began receiving ballet lesson when she was three years old and learn the dance from various prestigious institutions. At age six, she started acting in community theatre and later spent four summers studying musical theatre at 5th Avenue Theatre. Her screen debut came in 2009 with the comedy-drama film ‘True Adolescents’. Two years later, she appeared in her first TV project, the telefilm ‘Metro’. Since then she has continued to work on a number of projects for film and TV, including Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’. Dumont is part of Mensa and has served as the captain of FIRST Robotics Competition Team 980 at the 2013 Los Angeles Regional Competition, where she became a FIRST Dean’s List Finalist.
Anthony Dutchak
Born from the majestic moose and raised by a team of beavers in an igloo, this nerdy Canuck knows a thing or two about beer, bacon and boo…ks. Books. Crack open a cold one, throw some back-bacon on the Coleman, and let this man charm his way into your hearts with his witty puns and sarcastic remarks. Anthony’s primary language is Star Wars quotes, so if you ever meet him in person, he’ll appreciate it if you hold a conversation with him in his native tongue.
Mark Edward Edens
Mark Edward Edens always wanted to be a novelist, but purely by chance got started writing TV animation. He stopped counting how many animation episodes he’d written scripts or outlines for when the number reached 100, for dozens of shows ranging from hits like The X-Men and The Real Ghostbusters to less-seen series like Exosquad, The Spiral Zone, and Little Shop. He’s also written scripts for several live-action series, including Young Hercules, as well as TV movies for CBS and the Disney Channel. He’s currently finishing the first (but he hopes not the last) of his many unfinished novels, Death Be Not Pwned.
Michael Edens
Michael Edens was born in Portland, Tennessee, in 1951 and grew up in the Nashville area. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Master’s degree in Modern British History in 1978. In the mid-1980s, while living in Knoxville, Tennessee, he began his professional writing career working in television animation for such shows as TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, TAILSPIN, and THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS. In 1990, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on series such as BEETLEJUICE, X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, EXOSQUAD, WING COMMANDER ACADEMY, MUMMIES ALIVE, and YOUNG HERCULES. As writer and story editor, he has created over 200 hours of animated and live-action entertainment for major studios like DISNEY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER BROTHERS, and SONY.
Mike Faber
Mike Faber is the founder and CCO of the geeky and ever expanding ESO Network. He hosts The Earth Station One and Earth Station Who podcasts. He teaches and mentors new podcasters on starting and producing new projects. The ESO Network celebrates all things sci-fi, fantasy and much, much more.
Michael Falkner
Michael Falkner is a writer, podcaster, and photographer living in the Atlanta area. A graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Arkansas, a Navy submarine veteran, and an incurable science fiction geek, he has been writing, give or take, since he could hold a pencil.
Since 2011, he has hosted The Weekly Podioplex, a movie and television news podcast on The Chronic Rift network. Before then, he was a writer and producer for The Scapecast, the Parsec Award-winning podcast about Farscape. He has also contributed to various other podcast productions, most notably The RevCast on RevolutionSF and The Chronic Rift’s Roundtable. Michael is also a frequent panelist for the American Science Fiction Classics Track at Dragon Con, and is also one of the founding members of the Dragon Con Newbies group, which helps newcomers of the annual convention.
As a writer, Michael has been published several times, including genre essays on RevolutionSF and ForceCast.net. He is also the author of the Timestamps Project, a series of reviews of the long-running Doctor Who television series. His work can be found on his site, Creative Criticality.
Mark Finn
Mark Finn is an author, an editor, and a pop culture critic. He’s written comics, essays, short stories, novels, and movie reviews for a bunch of publishers and media outlets. He is a nationally-recognized authority on the Texas author Robert E. Howard. Currently, he is an editor for Skelos Press and a podcaster for The Gentlemen Nerds. He lives in North Texas over a vintage movie theater with his long-suffering wife, far too many books, and an affable pit bull named Sonya. If you’re interested in Mark’s ramblings, follow him on one or both of his blogs: Finn’s Wake & Confessions of a Reformed RPGer
Alex Garfin
Alex Garfin, 17, is from New York City. He is a recent graduate from the famous LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. In his free time Alex enjoys playing the piano, bike riding, hanging out with his brother, Max, and other friends.
You can see Alex on the Warner Brothers and CW‘s new hits drama Superman & Lois. He plays Clark and Lois’ super son, Jordan Kent.
Lucas Garrett
I’m a lifelong geek who loves many forms of entertainment ranging from superhero comic books, pulp adventure, mystery, and spy novels, short stories, video games, television, and films. My special interests primarily involve crossovers between different genres. In the real world, I am a security professional with over 20 years of experience, a United States Marine veteran, and a former building engineer. My website is Luc’s Speculations.
Gerald Glassford
National University graduate and Co-Host of the Pop Culture Cosmos show and the PCC Multiverse, our Discover Pods Award nominated shows reach listeners 7 days a week on 15 radio stations worldwide including the #1 show on the Podcast Radio Network since February of 2017.
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is a writer, publisher, and podcaster. His creator-owned comic, Tiki Zombie, has been running for over half a decade. He has also written a variety of other books that can be found at NewLegendProductions.com. Michael can also be heard saying, “Howdy!” on the weekly Earth Station One podcast, as well as a number of other shows. He is an avid aficionado of all kinds of escapism and is a skilled cinephile, TV junkie, and comic fanboy. For more info, check out newlegendmike.com.
Kevin Griggs
When navy nurse Kevin Griggs stamps his wooden drumstick upon the ground, it is transformed into a mystical weapon called Kettlestrike! Armed with incredible powers, Griggs works to prove that one man can make a difference, because the world still needs heroes! The 42cast presents Kettlestrike!
In all seriousness, Kevin is Nathan’s oldest friend, and although he couldn’t be bothered to write his own bio, Nathan helped him out anyway. Also, Kevin is a big time fan of Thunderstrike and throws around kettlebells like they’re basketballs and he’s one of the Harlem Globetrotters, so this seemed to fit. Guess which one is Kevin in the picture.
Ryan Guthrie
Exiled in the desert wasteland of Arizona, Ryan spends most of his time finding ants, watching TV, and circling the parking lot trying to find that one little bit of shade. His home is occupied by his better half, two cats, and countless unfinished projects. On any given weekend, he can be found in the movie theater, catching up all the good genre movies, and most of the bad as well. His TV schedule is consumed by the CW, SyFy, Who, Netflix, and whatever just looks good at the moment. A lifelong geek, his childhood was one of Star Trek, fantasy novels, and Marvel comics, all of which seem to have grown up with him, and for good or ill, shaped his moral underpinnings. Now he likes to spend his disposable income and limited free time on visiting conventions like (plug!) Dragon Con and Phoenix Comicon, or doing podcasts like this mighty fine one! For more nuanced opinions on all things nerdy as he thinks of them and finds time to write them, visit www.geekstranger.com or follow @geekstranger on twitter!
Kelley Harkins
Kelley Harkins has been a fan of geeky things for a very long time, long before it was mainstream. She published a Star Wars fanzine back when, documenting it in the essay collection of ‘Geek Elders Speak’ that came out in early 2021. Over the years there have been podcasts, and blogs and reviews, and she’s been a participant and director at DragonCon for 20 years, and takes pride in the fact of how many fans, she’s encouraged to share their voices. Mundanely, she gets to teach at the equally geeky college of Full Sail University.
Jennifer Hartshorn
Jennifer is a podcaster, wordsmith, and educator who loves games, Doctor Who, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and geek media in general. Her childhood ambition was to grow up to be a female version of Weird Al, but her parents’ unwillingness to buy her an accordion quashed that dream early on. Instead, her career has included tabletop game design, Celtic-Goth-Rock singing, stage management, owning a LARP production company, working in corporate communications, and teaching college. A petty dabbler in the liberal arts, Jen is an eternal student who thinks a good class discussion and a good group podcast are pretty damn near the same thing.
Joe Heath
On a website on the internet there lived a Joe. Not a hot, caffeinated Joe, splashed with cream and a roasty smell, nor yet a cotton-eyed Joe with over-played lyrics and a catchy beat: it was a filmmaker Joe, and that means humor. Or something. Joe Heath writes, directs, films, produces, and acts in short films, sketches, and movie reviews for Minty Pineapple Entertainments. He also co-hosts a Doctor Who podcast with his wife called The Watch-a-Thon of Rassilon.
Toni Heath
Toni Heath is a television producer, podcast host, and actual human being. Probably. She splits her time between her day job translating other people’s passion into stories for the television show, The Unseen World, and co-hosting the Doctor Who podcast, The Watch-a-Thon of Rassilon, with her husband, Joe Heath. She is also the creative force behind blogs such as Tiny Adventure Club, Boobs Don’t Work That Way, and 180 Seconds. You can find out more about her at tonibheath.com or follow her on Instagram and Twitter @FWDPWR.
Karen Henson
Karen Smith Henson is the Director of the Military SciFi Media Track at Dragon Con, which features (in her totally unbiased opinion) the best in character, costuming, storyline, and social issue panels from a variety of military sci-fi and space shows, such as Andromeda, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Farscape, Firefly, Space: Above and Beyond, Space: 1999, Stargate, Starship Troopers, Personal Space, Space Force, and The Orville. Volunteering for the con since 2002, including stints on British SciFi Media, YA Lit, and the dearly departed Stargate Multiverse Track, she likes to keep things fun, inclusive, and interactive, yet thought-provoking, and always with tongue held firmly in cheek. She is passionate about literature, from the Victorians to Terry Pratchett, and when not immersed in fandom, she serves as the Distance Learning Coordinator at an Atlanta-area funeral service college.
Leonard Herman
Leonard Herman, The Game Scholar, is regarded as one of the earliest and most respected videogame historians. The first edition of his book, Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Home Videogames, which was published in 1994, is considered to be the first serious and comprehensive book about the history of videogames. In 2008 Game Informer magazine rated Phoenix as the number two videogame book of all time.
Mr. Herman has written articles for Videogaming & Computer Illustrated, Games Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Pocket Games, Classic Gamer Magazine, Edge, Game Informer, Classic Gamer Magazine, Manci Games, Gamespot.com and Video Game Trader, a magazine that he also edited. He currently writes a regular column for Old School Gamer magazine. He has also contributed articles to several videogame-related books, including Supercade, The Video Game Explosion and The Encyclopedia of Video Games. Mr. Herman has also written the book ABC To the VCS (A Directory of Software for the Atari 2600), a compendium of game summaries and Unforgotten Fiction, a collection of short stories. He has also written and designed user’s manuals for the following Atari VCS games: Cracked, Save the Whales, Pick-Up, Rush Hour, Looping, The Entity and Lasercade, as well as the user’s guide to Ralph Baer’s Pinball! and K.C. Escape for the Odyssey2.
Mr. Herman has served as an adviser for Videotopia, Classic Gaming Expo and the National Videogame Museum. He has appeared in several episodes of G4’s Icons and in the documentary, The King of Arcades. In 2003, Mr. Herman received a Classic Gaming Expo Achievement Award in recognition for his accomplishments in documenting game history.
Dr. Zachary Horton
Zachary Horton is an Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the intersection of technological mediation, ecology, and scale. He is the founding director of the Vibrant Media Lab at Pitt, as well as a game designer, filmmaker and camera designer.
Larry Houston
Larry F. Houston is the Emmy-nominated Producer/Director of THE X-MEN Animated show, the phenomenally successful 90s series that expanded the scope and laid the foundation for Marvel’s multi-billion dollar mutant franchise globally.
Hired by Filmation Studios as the first African-American Saturday Morning Storyboard Artist, Larry worked as a Storyboard Artist on some of the favorite 80s and 90s classic shows like: Thundarr, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends, ExoSquad, Transformers, Spawn, Mr. T, Batman, Real Ghostbusters, Conan, Swamp Thing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mighty Orbots, Bionic Six, Visionaries, Hulk, and Defenders of the Earth.
He was also the Director of Captain Planet, GI Joe, Fantastic Four 2nd season, The Karate Kid, Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, RoboCop Alpha Commando, Kid N Play, The Care Bears on CBS Saturday Mornings and three (3) Care Bear Movies. “Swarm” from Spiderman and his Amazing Friends and “Hearts and Cannons” from the 80s GI JOE syndicated series were episodes written by him.
Additionally, the iconic X-Men TV Opening and inspiring GI Joe Movie Intro were both drawn by Larry, as well as The Karate Kid and the TV show Community’s GI Jeff Intro.
Larry directed the first two animated appearances of the Black Panther, first in the 90’s X-MEN series followed by the FIRST fully animated episode, “Prey of the Black Panther”, in the second season of THE FANTASTIC FOUR.
He expanded the world of He-Man Mini-Comics by adding and designing more multi-cultural diverse heroes and villains into the He-Man mythology, penciled a Tank story for the DNAgents comic book, and Flare story from Heroic Publishing. He promises new stories for his super-heroines The Vanguards, his creator-owned title first published through Charlton Bullseye, as well as new creations he is developing for today’s marketplace.
Damien Hu
Damien Hu is an undergrad computer engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. His interest in vintage hardware came from working on a Macintosh Plus restoration project in 2020. He has since repaired and operated a few vintage computer systems from the 1980s, along with developing some new expansion cards, notably a WOPR control panel for the IBM 5160 and a Vector Drawing Machine plugin for the Tektronix 5110 mainframe oscilloscope. He is now working on recreating the TVG-2 gaming console and the original Tennis for Two vector graphics console as part of Dr. Horton’s Vibrant Media Lab.
Kimi Hughes
By day, Kimi is a professional educator, but by night (and weekends) Kimi is the creative mind behind the Golden Lasso Games, an indie tabletop RPG company. A comic book fanatic and an accomplished cosplayer, Kimi has used her geek knowledge and costuming skills to contribute to multiple fan-film projects, including the Rainfall Wonder Woman trailer (2013) and Metroid: the Sky Calls (2015), and in 2015 her original Bombshell Big Barda cosplay design was used by DC Comics as the canon design for the character in the Bombshell comics line. In 2017, an article she wrote about the Amazons’ bikini-armor costumes in Justice League went viral, infuriating fanboys all over the internet and earning her mentions in Glamour, The Hollywood Reporter, People, and many other media outlets. She was relieved to fade back into internet obscurity soon after.
You can find her on Twitter as @GoldenLassoGirl.
J.D. Jackson
J.D. Jackson is a podcaster, gaming enthusiast, and professional planner who currently lives in Lancaster, PA with his wife and adorable doggo. He’s lived all over the country, spending time in Baltimore, Anchorage, Portland (the Oregon one), and Biloxi. He is one of the founding hosts of Level 7 Access, a Marvel Cinematic Universe Podcast, and can these days also be found as a player for Moon Harbor Heroes, a Masks actual play podcast. When not podcasting wherever he can, J.D. enjoys tabletop RPGs, video games, traveling, sports, writing, and spending too much time on Twitter.
Keith Johnson
A lifelong fan of all things sci-fi, animation, comics, and real life science (especially astronomy!) Keith has been watching shows and movies about aliens, monsters, spaceships and dragons as long as he can remember. His earliest memories of sci-fi on TV go way back to gems like “The Creature from The Black Lagoon”, “The Blob”, and great series like “Outer Limits”, “Twilight Zone”, “The Invaders”, “UFO”, “Lost in Space”, and of course, the original “Star Trek”, which he’s been watching at least weekly, non-stop, for decades. (He’s actually proud of the fact that he can identify any ep of Original Trek in five seconds or less, just by hearing the music or seeing a planet!) From tiny 12-inch black-and-white TVs set to UHF channels back in the day, to big multiplexes, if it’s about outer space, magic, monsters, or cartoons, he’s there. It’s not just about whiz-bang lasers, action, and fantasy though. He sees in science fiction at its best the hope of a better future where hatred, racism, poverty, disease, and all the ills of society can possibly–just possibly–be solved, if we get it right. But good sci-fi can also be a warning against continuing down the same paths, a cautionary tale that if we don’t change, we might not survive. The lessons and morales and self-reflection of the best scifi, fantasy, and speculative fiction never get old to him, as they connect nicely with his love of discussing politics, history, and societal issues. Outside of scifi and fantasy Keith is a movie buff who prides himself for having at least a dozen silent films in his queue at any given time, and who actually enjoys films with subtitles! After years of being an observer, Keith has finally started dipping his toe into the podcast world, being one of the hosts of Earth Station Trek and a big participant in many online discussions of film and media. His goal is to do more in the social media space, such as podcasts and videos on physical fitness for men of “a certain age”, home gardening, and oh yeah–definitely yet another take on Star Trek!
Kravyn
Kravyn is a female competitive Mortal Kombat 11 player for KoS. She has grown up with scifi lit and media and loves it to this day.
Stephanie Kulak
Stephanie, AKA Alkrea, has been into all things geekdom for as long as she can remember. Some of her earliest memories include watching Star Trek: TNG with her parents and being totally enamored with the NES at her grandparents’ house. Her father always encouraged her to read from his own library and well above her “level”, even in grade school, which raised eyebrows from her teachers. Although, the diorama in 6th grade featuring a mutilated Ken doll to represent Zaphod Beeblebrox certainly got a laugh from her sci-fi loving teacher, with many confused classmates. As a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, video games, D&D, and anime, she enjoys conversing with other geeks, cosplaying, and losing herself to fantasy worlds. Some of her favorites include Babylon 5, Star Trek (all of them! but especially TNG and DS9), Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, American McGee’s Alice, the entire Zelda franchise, and the MCU (especially the Netflix series!). You can follow her all over the internet: Twitter: @Alkrea Facebook: @LadyAlkrea Instagram: @LadyAlkrea Twitch: @LadyAlkrea YouTube: @AlkreaVision.
Felicity Kusinitz
Felicity is old enough to have seen the Star Wars Holiday Special upon its first (and only) broadcast. She has been an avid fantasy reader since childhood. Doctor Who was her entry into organized fandom and the source of many of her longest-lasting friendships. Felicity is affiliated with The Flopcast and has appeared on several other ESO Network podcasts.
Eric and Julia Lewald
Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald are two of the premier writer-producers in youth-oriented and animated television, with over 700 produced credits between them. They have been showrunners, together or individually, on 14 series, including X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, the show that brought Marvel characters to TV and movies and made Fox TV the number one network in kids’ programming.
Eric’s book, Previously on X-MEN: The Making of an Animated Series, is an in-depth history and celebration of the creation of the landmark television show, told by the showrunner, cast, writers, and artists who produced it. Michael Harris of RetroZap.com calls it, “everything that a fan of the show could want.” Michael Mammano of DenofGeek.com gives it 5 out of 5 stars and says it’s “compelling, funny… moving” and “a legit page-turner”. Jay Sandlin at TheGWW writes, “Previously on X-Men delivers behind-the-scenes gold for geeks.”
Dr Erin Macdonald
Dr Erin Macdonald is an astrophysicist, science fiction consultant (currently for the Star Trek franchise), and host of the online series “Dr Erin Explains the Universe“. Her specialty is in general relativity, having previously worked in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration searching for gravitational waves. She has since found her home in science fiction, consulting with writers, teaching STEM through popular culture, and fulfilling her life goal of becoming a warp drive expert while living in Los Angeles.
Alli Martin
As a writer and freelance editor from Central Florida, Alli’s whole life has been steeped in the legacy of pop culture. She is a lifelong nerd, trained at age two by her older brother to name Star Wars characters and Transformers. (Seriously, there was no hope for her, only fandom.) Alli has spent most of her professional years editing everything from math textbooks to science fiction. She spends the rest of her time consuming media, paneling at conventions like DragonCon, and talking about writing. She analyzes the writing process and offers writer support on her website.
Alli has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Central Florida. Her fiction work can be found in the 2011 anthology Dreams of Steam II: Brass and Bolts from Dark Oak Press and she writes features on movies, TV, and comics for /Film. You can also find her on Twitter.
Eric McCracken
Bah weep grahna weep nini bong.
There isn’t a whole lot that can be said about Eric McCracken as he is a man of few words. He speaks plainly and he means what he says. His interests run the gambit of geekdom, but he prefers Nintendo to Sega, Marvel to DC, and Subs to Dubs. He likes his Dynotherms connected and his phasers set to stun. The book is usually better than the movie. Don’t Panic, there can be only One, and the enemy’s gate is down. It is a terrible night to have a curse, the princess is in another castle, and It’s Dangerous to go alone, so take this. Good Adventurers always go left, and while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Beholders tend to have a lot of teeth. There are few things that can stand up to both Murphy’s Law and Occam’s Razor. Regardless of what anyone anywhere has told you, Minmey is a terrible person, and this about sums up Eric’s view of life, the universe, and everything. When not being pragmatic, Eric works in Northern Illinois and pursues an education in Mobile and Web Development..
Will Meugniot
Will Meugniot’s diverse career as an artist, writer, designer, executive, producer and director has spanned many areas of the entertainment world, including comic books, animation, children’s book illustration and live action film storyboards.
In animation Meugniot is a winner of the International Monitor Award of Best Director, Children’s Programming for his work on Jim Benton’s Spydogs series, and also has been awarded The Environmental Media Award for his part in the creation of Captain Planet, as well as having seasons of both Captain Planet and The Real Ghostbusters under his supervision as producer/director receive Emmy nominations. In print Will is the winner of the New Pulp Award 2014 for best interior illustrations.
Will’s other animation producing and directing credits include X-Men, Ultimate Avengers II, Bob the Builder, Conan The Adventurer, Angelina Ballerina, Alienators, GI Joe: Valor VS Venom, Time Kid, Dinosaur Island, Dragonlance, Street Fighter, Jem, Spider-Man Unlimited and fan favorite, Exosquad.
He is also a noted storyboard artist having storyboarded hundreds of individual episodes of series such as Godzilla, Jana of the Jungle, Superfriends, The Thing, Flash Gordon, Sport Billy, Blackstar, Tarzan, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Hulk, Captain Power, GI Joe, Moon Dreamers, Jem, Defenders of the Earth, Bionic Six, Catillac Cats, Cops, Silver Surfer, Swamp Thing, Denver the Last Dinosaur, Little Shop, Diabolik, X-Men Evolution, and many more. Meugniot’s storyboarding skill led to his designing the titles or pilot films for several series, most notably G.I. Joe, Conan the Adventurer, Defenders of the Earth, Exosquad, Monster Force, Dark Stalkers, Street Fighter, Earth Worm Jim, Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters, and Jem.
Best known to the comic book audience as the Co-Creator (with Mark Evanier) of the long running DNAgents franchise, Meugniot’s other sequential fiction credits include creating, writing and drawing Vanity for Pacific comics, penciling Tigra, Solomon Kane, Howard the Duck, Marvel Team Up and briefly ghosting the Spider-Man newspaper strip for Marvel, and much work for independent publishers including AC Comics’ flagship book Femforce, including his solo creation of The N.E.D.O.R. Agents. Will’s ERB art is featured in 1970s European Tarzan & Korak comics, the online comic strip of The Jungle Girl, Dark Horse’s Jungle Tales of Tarzan, and most recently as both the cover and interior illustrator for Tarzan on the Precipice.
You can find his origin story here.
Sadie Miller
Sadie Miller is an English actress and author. She is known for her portrayal of Natalie Redfern in the Sarah Jane Smith audio drama series by Big Finish, her novel, Moon Blink, from Candy Jar Books’s series, Lethbridge-Stewart, as well as her association with the science fiction series, Doctor Who. She is the daughter of actors Brian Miller and Elisabeth Sladen.
As a child, Miller did extensive voice work. At eight years old, she made her TV debut as Penny, the on-screen daughter of Minnie Driver’s character, Sally, in the BBC Screen One film Royal Celebration. She appeared alongside her mother in the retrospective documentary Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS, wearing a replica of her mother’s “Andy Pandy” striped dungarees from the Doctor Who serial, The Hand of Fear. She also played Natalie Redfern in both series of Sarah Jane Smith for Big Finish Productions in 2002 and 2006, and wrote several monologues for her mother on the audio,”The Actor Speaks“.
In April 2016, Miller published her debut novel as the first book of the second series of the Lethbridge-Stewart novels, Moon Blink, under the publishing house, Candy Jar Books. She explained her comeback from her association with Doctor Who, as an author: “…I feel that the time is right to reconnect with Doctor Who, and the fans. My dad did so last year with an appearance in Peter Capaldi’s first episode, and so now it’s my turn.”
In 2021 Miller took over for her mother in the role of Sarah Jane Smith for the Doctor Who Big Finish Productions audio dramas, first with Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor in Return of the Cybermen, then with Tim Treloar as the third Doctor in The Third Doctor Adventures.
Gary Mitchel
Gary Mitchel is a writer, reviewer, geek blogger, gamer, sf/fantasy fan, comics reader, podcaster and International Man of Mystery (who’s too dangerous for the entire country of Canada) currently living near Atlanta.
He is co-host, with Deanna Toxopeus, of the Parsec Award nominated RevolutionSF Revcast, the site’s weekly geek culture discussion; a part of the ESO Podcast network. He is also host and producer of the RevNews podcast, which looks at various topical nerd-related events. Gary has also appeared on Shauncastic, Needless Things, The Batcave Podcast, The Chronic Rift, Storm of Words, Good to be a Geek, The White Rocket Podcast, The ESO Podcast, and The Saturday B Movie Reel podcasts. He can be found on the Facebook and followed on the Twitter as @Gary_Mitchel (and yes Star Trek fans, it’s his real name).
Gary is the Co-Director, with Joe Crowe, of The American Sci-Fi Classics Track at Dragoncon. There, he has discussed Sci-Fi TV, zombies, movies, zombies, cartoons, comics and zombies. Some attendees have stated that he is “hilarious,” and Gary swears that said people are not related to him.
Jeff Mueller
Writer. Consultant. Fighter. Nerd. Actor. Podcaster. Man-child. Basically, Jeff doesn’t believe in putting himself in a box. Always trying to find creative ways to give back to the nerd community that shaped him into who he is today, you can find him offering health tips, encouragement, and fitness-coaching from the perspective of a lifelong comic book and gamer geek over on his website www.thejerd.com. Or, if you prefer your fitness directly inserted into your ear-holes, you can savor his voice on the Geek Fitness Matters podcast.
Oh yeah, Jeff will totes give you free hugs if you run into him at a convention like San Diego Comic-Con.
Mike Nelson
“Hi, I’m Mike Nelson (no, not that one) aka Trexlight known on Youtube and Twitch playing video games and creating content. I dabble in video and audio editing and had the pleasure to do some projects for DragonCon. Always hit me up on twitter @thisistrex.”
Wil Nix
Wil Nix is a geek, poet, and teacher. Often a guest on geeky podcasts, Nix has an opinion on anything. He loves all things comics, comedy, film, and political science.
Wendy Padbury
Wendy Padbury trained at the Aida Foster Stage School and made her TV debut on the BBC arts program Monitor soon after starting the course. More TV work followed and, by the age of seventeen, she had landed a regular role in the ATV soap opera Crossroads.
Soon after this, she applied for the role of “Zoe” on Doctor Who. After several rounds of auditions and a screen test at Lime Grove, she was given the job. Although the production team tried to persuade her to stay on at the end of season six (and she was tempted to do so), she decided to leave at the same time as her co-stars Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines. She then worked in the theatre and, in the early seventies, appeared in three seasons of the Southern TV children’s series Freewheelers.
In the 1990s she became a theatrical agent, and has counted several fellow former Doctor Who cast members as part of her roster.
She continues her role of Zoe in the Doctor Who audio adventures recorded by Big Finish Productions.
Jason Padua
JP, often found on the interwebs as Nerd_Nonsense, has at times been a podcaster, writer, and even co-founder and creative director of his own nerdy empire. He has opinions on everything from comics and video games to politics and parenting. He spends his days leading automation development teams and his nights playing tabletop and video games. Feel free to reach out to him on Twitter, Twitch or even to friend him on PS4 (just search JP-WOTN).
Thomas Parham
Dr. Thomas Parham is professor of communication & media studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University and a WGA member with produced credits. McFarland published his book Hailing Frequencies Open in 2019; he also contributed chapters to Hollywood Chemistry, The Gospel According to Super-Heroes, and Behind the Screen.
Ashley Pauls
Ashley Pauls is a movie buff and loves anything to do with entertainment (especially Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe). She writes about current and upcoming films and other entertainment-related topics on her blog, Box Office Buzz. She also enjoys podcasting and can be found as a guest chatting about movies on Earth Station One. Her other geeky hobbies include cosplaying and making her own costumes, and collecting way too many Darth Vader memorabilia items.
John Peel
John Peel was born in Nottingham, England (home of Robin Hood). He moved to the U.S. in 1981 to marry his pen-pal (if anybody remembers what they were these days). They live on Long Island with their mixed-breed rescue dog, Dickens, and a flock of 18 lovebirds. He’s written over a hundred novels, many of them TV tie-ins for shows like “Doctor Who”, “Star Trek” and “The Outer Limits”. He has also created the fantasy series “Diadem – Worlds of Magic” and “Dragonhome” for YA readers.
Anji Petrizzo
Anji grew up with parents who read her “The Hobbit” at bedtime and had family Star Trek night each week, but would not allow video game consoles in the house. As a result, she grew into a voracious sci-fi and fantasy reader whose hand-eye coordination suffers to this day. As time went on, Anji continued to stumble haphazardly into geeky pursuits: anime in middle school, cosplay and RPGs in high school, tabletop gaming in college, and World of Warcraft during a couple of forgotten years during grad school.
These days, she plays tabletop games, fails to complete NaNoWriMo every year, and dresses her child up as various pokemon for the local comic convention. She is very excited to participate in the 42cast, which is her very first experience with voice recording since high school choir.
El Phantasmas
The origin of the man known as “The Phantom Troublemaker” is shrouded in myth and legend. All that we know is that he has been hosting live music, wrestling, and convention events and commenting on pop culture since 2009. You can find him and the weekly Needless Things Podcast at NeedlessThingsSite.com, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
Stephen Pickering
Stephen Pickering is an actor and director, currently working in the Chicago area. Stephen made his professional film debut in She’s Having a Baby and has appeared in other films, including The Untouchables. He performed several characters for the children’s radio show Kid’s Corner. Stephen will appear in the upcoming independent feature film The Gray Girl, currently in production.
In addition to working in film, television, and radio, Stephen has worked on the stage in many plays and musicals in the Chicago area. His performances have been nominated for several regional Broadway World – Chicago awards, and he recently won the Lou Award for Best Actor in a Male Supporting Role for his portrayal of Selsdon in Noises Off.
Stephen has two grown children and one grown dachshund. He lives with his wife Amy in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. He is represented by Babes N’ Beaus Talent.
Will Price
Will Price – the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind. He is an all-around geek that enjoys a good conversation about geeky subjects, including Star Wars, Star Trek, movies (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), video games and comics. His guilty pleasure movie is Point Break (there’s only one), and he’s still holding out for a sequel to Flash Gordon. Will is a level 20 random encounter that can only be found at Dragoncon.
Peter Purves
Peter Purves is an English television presenter and actor. He played Steven Taylor in Doctor Who during the era of the First Doctor, a role he continues to play in audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, and later became a presenter on the BBC children’s program Blue Peter, a position he held for eleven years. He has continued to make regular appearances on television, including an association with television coverage of the Crufts dog show, which ended in 2019. He continues to work as brand ambassador for YuMOVE, the U.K.’s No. 1 veterinary joint supplement brand and raises money for various dog and pet related charities.
Eric Ratcliffe
Eric Ratcliffe is the host of The Why I Love Comics podcast. He is also the writer of the long running and award winning webcomic New Comic Day, which he describes as “Clerks meets Looney Tunes”. In the series, Eric and friends have adventures that go from arguing at the comic shop to waking up one morning to discover that Thanos has decided to crash on his couch and now won’t leave, finding the necronimicon landing on his doorstep, or are transported into a fantasy book and having to figure out a way out. It’s comic book and cartoon adventure weekly on newcomicday.net! He prides himself on being a Cosplayer/Horror aficionado/comic book junkie and all around knower of the most obscure pop culture knowledge.
Cammien Ray
Cammien Ray has been a podcast host with Golden Spiral media for a few years and has been talking non-stop for far longer than that. With a background in live theater and villainy, Cammie is always excited to chat about all things superhero, villain, or storytelling in general. Assorted videos, articles, liveshows, interviews, convention adventures, etc. can be found on my social media, which is, surprisingly, /CammienRay on most sites that have been around since after we all killed MySpace.
Shaun Rosado
Shaun is a massive fan of pop culture and all things geek. The self proclaimed World’s Biggest Flash fan divides his time playing RPGs with his friends, traveling the country and contributing to the Bored Nerds with a Mic podcast. You can find him on most social media as PneumaZ.
James Rowe
James has been a rabid geek by nature since the time of the true true. He lives in Washington state where he spends much of his time playing video games and creating opinions on them. Outside of nerd-dom, James also enjoys the company of good scotch or a good brew when he can find them.
Skyler Samuels
Skyler most recently starred on Fox’s THE GIFTED, and starred in the Lionsgate film PUBLIC DISTURBANCE, lead Jenica Bergere’s indie drama SPARE ROOM, and starred in CBS Films/Lionsgate’s THE DUFF alongside Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Ken Jeong and Allison Janney. Skyler will next be seen in Shane Dax Taylor’s MASQUERADE.
On the television side, Skyler starred in Season 1 of Ryan Murphy’s SCREAM QUEENS on FOX as well Murphy’s FX hit show AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW.
Skyler came to prominence playing the title character of ‘Chloe King’ in ABC Family’s NINE LIVES OF CHLOE KING, which garnered her a Teen Choice Award for ‘Breakout Actress.’
Jay Scardina
Jay Scardina has lived in the Atlanta area for the last 25 years having moved from Miami, FL. He’s a big fan of comics, although most of the ones he loves are from prior to the 2000’s. Jay grew up watching Star Trek: The Original Series and The Next Generation. Although he didn’t consider himself a Trekkie at the time, it’s grown on him over time and now he’s a fearless defender of Enterprise. Jay has attended many Dragoncons and is hoping to take his twin boys for the first time this year (2019).
Alexander Smith
Just some guy ya’ know? Well, Alex is the mind behind the They Create Worlds podcast. His knowledge of the industry, the companies, and the people is unparalleled. He has been working on researching the industry, including conducting over one hundred interviews, for nearly fifteen years. He often selects each topic for a podcast episode, and meticulously researches the topic before recording begins!
Daviorr Snipes
Daviorr is a professional theater actor who has worked across the country for nearly 30 years. He is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association and currently serves as the Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion for the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. As a professional actor he has appeared Off-Broadway with the Ensemble Studio Theatre and has toured nationally with Theaterworks USA. He is a Peabody Award winner for his work on the NPR Podcast, Buried Truths, and has also appeared in the BET tv series, American Soul. Most recently he worked at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in addition to other Atlanta theater companies such as Vanguard Repertory Theatre and Working Title Playwrights.
Tim Treloar
Tim Treloar has over 20 years experience as an actor. He has worked at The Royal Shakespeare Company, West End and on Broadway. He has numerous screen credits including the movies Maleficent, Macbeth and Dolittle.
He has won the BBC Carleton Hobbs Award and plays The Third Doctor for Big Finish.
Juliette Vincent
Juliette is a geek of all trades who writes to help nonprofits by day and flies her geek flag high at all times. Knitter, karaoke junkie, avid reader, and hockey fan, she is immersed in many fandoms and loves to talk about them all. You can find her on twitter as @the_visible_elf or on instagram, complete with many photos of her cats, as @rumielf.
Corrine Vitek
Legends abound of Kori, one of the internet’s most elusive creatures. By day Kori is said to walk among us, unnoticed. By night she works away tirelessly creating various costumes to masquerade as a human at cons and events. Rumor has it that Koris hide in the deepest, darkest portions of the web to talk endlessly about X-Men, Bobba Fett, cryptids, and other associated geekery. Befriending them typically involves a subscription to either the Legendary Forces, Krakoa Exports, and/or Culture Cryptids podcasts. Attached, you’ll find a photo of one of the alleged Kori sightings in the wild. If found, pictures of this elusive creature are highly sought by anthropologists, but always make sure to ask for permission first.
Adam Whetston
Sexy Thor is a bit of a mixed bag. He had fun, fun, fun till his daddy took his hammer away. Now he spends his days waxing a surfboard he never learned how to use and pounding long island ice teas at his condo in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Adam Whetston is the host of the Ring Of Thunder Podcast.
Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams was born and raised in London, England. In 2011, he emigrated to the USA, where he has been living in Atlanta, GA ever since. He has been a Doctor Who fan for as long as he can remember, and credits the show as his gateway into the world of all things nerdy. He was the founder of the Planet Skaro Doctor Who forums, he is one of the hosts of the Watchers in the Fourth Dimension podcast (unsurprisingly discussing Doctor Who), and he is also a permanent fixture of Sweet Radu’s Musically Inclined podcast (discussing heavy metal). Outside of the geek scene, he holds a BA and an MA in History, an MBA with a focus in Strategy and Operations, and works in financial services.
Lenore Zann
Award-winning actor Lenore Zann first burst onto the entertainment scene at 19 with an unforgettable performance as Marilyn Monroe. This led to a theatrical career which has taken her around the world including the iconic Rogue of the 90’s X-Men animated series which inspired a generation of youth. A lifelong champion of the Arts, Women’s Rights, Environment, Social Justice, and Mental Health, Lenore served as an elected representative on both provincial and federal governments for 12 years in her home country of Canada. Her Private Members Bill “A National Strategy to Address Environmental Racism” is the first bill of its kind to legislate the right of all citizens to clean air and water. She is the recipient of a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Lifetime Award for Service to Community & Country.