» Guests

Here you can find the Kitacon guest list. You can expect this list to grow as the convention grows nearer, so keep your eyes peeled!

Chris Patton

Chris Patton has been acting professionally since early childhood. He began his professional acting career with the Children's Chorus of the Houston Grand Opera at age ten, and enjoyed a busy and exciting professional Theatrical stint until his late 20's, when he discovered the world of Voice Over. After being cast in his first prominent role at ADV Films ( Daley Wong in Bubblegum Crisis 2040 ), Chris decided to focus on Voice Acting full-time, and has gone on to voice over 140 Anime titles, along with Video Games, Radio spots, Audio Books, Industrial Voice Over work, etc.

Some of his Anime credits include:

Full Metal Panic, including Fumoffu and Second Raid ( Sousuke Sagara ),
Fullmetal Alchemist ( Greed ),
Guyver: Bioboosted Armor ( Sho Fukamachi ),
Welcome to the NHK ( Sato ),
Princess Tutu ( Fakir ),
Nerima Daikon Brothers ( Ichiro ),
The Wallflower ( Ranmaru Morii ),
RahXephon ( Ayato Kamina ),
Kanon ( Yuiichi Aiazawa ),
Kiba ( Noah ),
Pretear ( Sasame ),
Ghost Stories ( Hajime ),
Tactics ( Haruka ), and one VERY cool character he cannot yet mention in Baccano!

Chris has also voiced roles in Shin Chan, Case Closed, Negima, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Dragonball Z: Tree of Might, The Galaxy Railways, ADV's incarnation of Gurren Lagan, Dirty Pair, Master of Mosquiton, Sorcerer Hunters, Orphen II, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Excel Saga, Angelic Layer,and many more. This marks Chris's second trip to the UK, and he is absolutely stoked!

Laura Bailey

Laura Bailey got her start voice acting playing Kid Trunks on the hit series Dragonball Z, and went on to play several leads in other popular anime titles.

Some of her Anime credits include:

Shin Chan ( Shin ),
Fruits Basket ( Tohru Honda ),
Fullmetal Alchemist ( Lust ),
Yu Yu Hakusho ( Keiko ),
Kodocha ( Sana ),
Blue Gender ( Marlene ),
Basilisk ( Oboro ),
Gunslinger Girl ( Henrietta )

But her list of credits doesn't end there. Laura has worked on over thirty shows, providing her directing and producing talents to many of them. To see her full list of credits, visit her website at www.lizardbee.com. And for those gamers out there, you can hear Laura's voice as Chun Li in the upcoming release of Streetfighter IV, as well as in the BloodRayne games (as the vampire Rayne), Digsaea 3, Aeon Flux, Deus Ex 2: The Invisible War, Dawn of Mana, Dragonball Z: Budokai, and many others.

Travis Willingham

Travis has worked in stage, TV, and film, but is best known in the anime world for his character Colonel Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist - one of his very first roles in anime. He has since gone on to work on many other popular titles in both Texas and Los Angeles.

Some characters include Pierre in Aquarion, Badrick Serihan in Black Blood Brothers, Andreas Darlton in Code Geass, Iggy in Ergo Proxy, Kaiji in GunxSword, Cleo in Glass Fleet, Ginko in Mushishi, Portgas D. Ace in One Piece, Eustoma in Shuffle, as well as other roles in Hellsing Ultimate, Case Closed, Ghost Hunt, Naruto, Blue Gender, Dragonball Z, GT, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Mermaid Forrest, The Melody of Oblivion, and Yu Yu Hakusho.

After moving to Los Angeles in 2004, Travis began working on numerous feature films, as well as continuing to work in ADR voice over. Some of his on-screen credits include Secondhand Lions, Ray, Friday Night Lights, Prison-A-Go-Go, and The Guardian. He recently finished shooting in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a supporting role in A Perfect Getaway, as well as working on CBS' Cold Case and FX's Nip/Tuck.

Travis' most recent film/video game work included starring opposite of Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) in Insomniac Games production of "Project Abraham" - an internet viral campaign promoting their upcoming release of their PS3 flagship game, "Resistance 2: Rise of Man". He stars as the live-action version of the game's hero, Nathan Hale. Other video game titles for Travis include Evan Bernard in Time Crisis 4, Guile in Street Fighter 4, Roy Mustang in the Fullmetal Alchemist games: Dual Sympathy, Broken Angel, and Curse of the Crimson Elixir, Yodai Higashizawa in The World Ends With You, Gabriel Celeste in Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Stroud in Dawn of Mana, Portgas D. Ace in One Piece: Grand Battle, and Guitar Hero 4 due out next year.

His newest role will be playing The Hulk, in Marvel's new animated series, Marvel Superhero Squad.