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This year's AUSA Voice Actor Guests are amazing! Brina Palencia, Cristina Vee, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Patrick Seitz and Christopher Sabat will all be here!

Here's just a short look at this year's voice actors:

Brina Palencia

palenciaBrina Palencia is a voice actress, and music director for Funimation and a director for Okratron5000.

Her voice acting highlights include: Nina Tucker in Full Metal Alchemist, Yue in Negima, Georgie in Shin Chan (for which she also sang the ending theme song), Eve and Tearju Lunatique in Black Cat, Maho in Beck, Silvia de Alisia in Aquarion, Ai in Hell Girl, Mikoto in School Rumble, Moro and Zashikiwarashi in xxxHOLiC, Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece, Yin in Darker Than Black, Priscilla in Claymore, Ennis in Baccano, Rei Ayanami in Evangelion 1.0, Juliet in Romeo X Juliet, Tamama in Sgt. Frog, Holo in Spice and Wolf, Miharu in Nabari No Ou, and Yumi Azusa in Soul Eater.

Her voice can also be heard on several video games such as Borderlands, Guitar Hero III and IV, Stunt Driver 2, Super Dagonball Z, One Piece: Unlimited Adventure, Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon as the Moogle/Dungeon Hero X, Mushroom Men as Pax (player) and The Maw as Frank (player). Her ADR Directing credits include: Moon Phase (eps 21-26), School Rumble, Black Blood Brothers, and xxxHOLiC (the movie and eps 1-8). She also served as the music director for Sasami and Negima!?. On camera you can see her at GameStop alongside Chris Burnett as the new GameStop TV co-host.

 

Cristina Vee

CristinaVee-HeadshotsmallCristina 'Vee' Valenzuela is a anime and video game voice actress residing near Los Angeles, California.

Her story from an anime fan and cosplayer to a professional voice actress and singer is a unique one. She was invited to the Bang Zoom studios at the age of 16 to audition and they have since honed her talent. Now at 22, she has starred in anime such as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha as the title character, Rozen Maiden as Kanaria, The Familiar of Zero as Louise, and Aika in Aika R-16. Other anime roles include parts in Kannazuki no Miko, Hare + Guu, and The Blade of the Immortal (Machi) among others. She also has voiced for popular video games such as Luminous Arc 2, Rune Factory Frontier, Avalon Code, Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, and Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow. She has also performed in numerous theatrical productions and starred in independent films.

Cristina has also gained popularity through her YouTube channel as MilkyCabbage and ValliereVee with her English dubs and Japanese covers of anime songs. She has co-hosted Anime Olympics in the past and is now a host for Revision3's AnimeTV which is also featured on Comcast on Demand. You can also see Cristina in the Adventures in Voice Acting documentary. She was cast as Haruhi Suzumiya in Bandai Entertainment's web marketing campaign, The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade.

 

Mary Eilzabeth McGlynn

McGlynnHeadshotMary Elizabeth McGlynn is a voice over actress, writer, singer and director. As an actress, she portrayed “Major Motoko Kusanagi” in Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Solid State Society and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for which she won the American Anime Award for Best Actress. You can also hear her as “Sei” in Alpha Protocol and “Nora” in Final Fantasy XIII. Some of her other popular roles are “Cornelia” in Code Geas,"Kurenai" from Naruto, "Julia” from Cowboy Bebop, "Helba" and “Bordeau” from .hack, "Jagura" from Wolf's Rain and “Caroline” from Vampire Hunter D.

As a director, Mary Elizabeth just wrapped up directing the first season of Stitch! for The Disney Channel and the ADR on the feature animated film Dino Mom. She is currently directing Naruto: Shippuden for Disney XD. She has directed the 4 Naruto movies as well as the Naruto series for which she received the 2008 SPJA award for best director. Among her many other directing credits are the series Cowboy Bebop, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Wolf’s Rain, the movie Appleseed and was a co-writer for the American adaptation of Metropolis. She also directed the original animated series Gormiti Lords of Nature for Cartoon Network and Wild Animal Babies for PBS.

Mary Elizabeth has had the great honor of singing the music of Akira Yamaoka for the movie Silent Hill as well as the games: Silent Hill 3, 4, 5, Origins and the newly-released Silent Hill: Shattered Memories which she also co-directed.

For the gaming world she directed Samuel L. Jackson and Ron Perlman as well as the rest of the original cast in the recently released Afro Samurai game. She also directed the entire cast of iCarly for their interactive game. Mary Elizabeth has directed the voice work for Soul Calibur Legends, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Devil May Cry 3, 3.5 and 4, Spyhunter, the Naruto Clash of Ninja and Ultimate Ninja series, as well being second director for Kung Fu Panda.

 

Patrick Seitz

Seitz_convention_headshotPatrick Seitz is a Los Angeles voiceover actor, script adapter and ADR director who has lent his efforts to over 100 anime and video game titles over the last eight years.

With most of his resume occupying that odd point where zany, evil, and ethically ambiguous converge, Patrick’s roles include Germany in the upcoming Hetalia dub, Grimmer in Monster, Nekozawa in Ouran Host Club, Isshin Kurosaki in Bleach, George in Paradise Kiss, Hazel in Saiyuki Reload Gunlock, Dhaos in Tales of Phantasia, Koshiro in Koi Kaze, Lee Linho in ROD the TV, and Luke Valentine in Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate.

On the video game side of the ledger, you can hear him as Ragna the Bloodedge in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift and Calamity Trigger, Silverbolt in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Scorpion and Deathstroke in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Arthas Menethil and Garrosh Hellscream in World of Warcraft, Dracula in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Chopin in Eternal Sonata, and Radi Jaeger in Valkyria Chronicles.

In addition to the voiceover work, Patrick has done script-adapting and/or ADR direction for Monster, Romeo X Juliet, Naruto, Blue Dragon, Honey & Clover, Hell Girl, Girls Bravo, Kamichu!, Tales of Phantasia, The Melody of Oblivion, Zegapain, Guardian of the Spirit and Rumiko Takahashi Anthology.

Patrick has a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts, both of which he received at the University of California, Riverside. Before falling down the voiceover rabbit hole, he spent two very Welcome Back, Kotter-esque years teaching English at his old high school.

 

Christopher Sabat

Sabat_Chris_HS_BOBBLE Best known for his work as a lesser known voice actor, Christopher Sabat is oftentimes better known. Before being best known, he performed every single voice in Dragonball Z, with exception only to the roles he did not play. Vegeta, Piccolo and Yamcha were very popular characters. He played those, of course. Aside of those characters, he played others. Aside of those, he played seven more, or more. If his roles were listed in a sentence they would look like this: Kuwabara and Rizen in Yu Yu Hakusho, Jigen in Lupin III, Ayame in Fruits Basket, Alex Luis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist, Father Tres in Trinity Blood, Kikichio in Samurai 7, Kurogane in Tsubasa Chronicles, Naru Naru in Kodocha, Saiga in Speed Grapher, Roy in Solty Rei, Zoro in One Piece, Giroro in Sgt Frog and seven or more others, or more, respectively. Here’s a smaller sentence: It is!

Videogames are very popular, especially among gamers. The word "Atari" comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." He has also been his favorite character in games such as Metroid Prime 3, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Battlezone, Time Crisis 4, Final Fantasy and The Maw. And most recently in Duke Nukem and Comic Jumper. He loves internets! Do you?

Aside of acting he has a pregnant wife and two dogs and owns a studio called OkraTron 5000, which is a real studio. His dogs are named Apple and Rockit. His wife is named Superloveactionpants Supreme. When not on his iPhone, Chris spends his time writing bios for himself, and often says he enjoys surfing, karate, and reading although he doesn’t really do any of those things very often or, more often, ever. Aside of that, Chris is usually vast.

Currently, Chris is IN UR CONVENSHUNZ SINEING UR GOKOOZ.

 

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