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SiliCon with Adam Savage Talent List
Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Shohreh Aghdashloo was born Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar on May 11, 1952 in Tehran, Iran. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her ho...
Alasdair Allan
Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker, and journalist. In the past he has worked as a consultant, focusing on open hardware, machine learni...
Batman of San Jose
Batman of San Jose started operating sometime in June of 2019. He provides essential goods and support to the unhoused residents of downtown San Jose.
Tory Belleci
Best known for his roles in Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters,” “Jackass Forever,” and most recently, “Motor Mythbusters.”
Chris Boshuizen
Dr. Chris Boshuizen is an Australian astronaut, scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and musician. Currently a Partner at DCVC, a deep tech investmen...
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in Farscape and Cameron Mitchell in St...
Jenny Buccos
Jenny Buccos is a multi-award-winning director and producer. She is the founder and Head of Content of EXPLR Media, a multimedia education strategi...
Frankly Built
I'm Frank! I'm a Maker and Content Creator. I have 3+ years experience of 3D Printing props and cosplay. I also love making tutorials and teaching ...
Kari Byron
Kari Byron is an actress and producer, known for MythBusters (2003), Creature Features (2016) and White Rabbit Project (2016). Kari is the co-foun...
Emma Caulfield
Emma Caulfield, an award-winning actress known for her starring role as the young and beautiful demon-turned-mortal, "Anya", on Buffy the Vampire S...
Alex Cautley
Alex is a Portland Oregon maker who restores antique railcars fulltime and also works in multiple mediums for cosplay.
Stephanie Chan
Mixing art and technology has long been a passion for Stephanie Chan. She began her career as a digital coloring assistant on many prominent Marvel...
Ian Charnas
Ian Charnas has two engineering degrees and legs that go all the way to the floor. Find Ian on YouTube to see him rollerskate with a jetpack, build...
Wes Chatham
Wes Chatham is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as In the Valley of Elah, W., The Help, and The Philly Kid, and played Castor in Th...
Bob Clagett
Bob Clagett runs the popular YouTube channel I Like to Make Stuff, where you can find him making projects that range from simple home renovations t...
Kylie Clark
Kylie Clark has approximate knowledge of many things. Originally training as an actor, she began to gravitate towards theatrical props and ended up...
Ashley Coates
Dr. Ashley Coates is an aerospace engineer in the Computational Physics Branch of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA Ames Research C...
Amanda Cook
Dr. Amanda M. Cook is a space instrument scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. She is the integration and test lead and operations lead for the N...
Sarrahnade Cosplay
Sarah a.k.a. SarrahnadeCosplay is an award-winning, published cosplayer, who has been a part of the cosplay community since 2015. Sarah has been at...
Derek Dalle
Derek Dalle is a researcher and engineer at NASA Ames who has spent over eight years doing aerodynamics work for Artemis using NASA's supercomputin...
Fon H Davis
Fon Davis is the founder/creative director of Fonco Studios and appears on “The Holiday Movies that Made Us,” “Prop Culture,” “Battlebots,” “Cake M...
Deela Designs
Melanie of Deela Designs is an maker, cosplayer, and seamstress, from the Pacific Northwest. A tinkerer who got her start in sewing from making her...
Cara Dodge
Cara Dodge is the Engagement Lead and Exhibit Manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. Over her 15-year career, she h...
Bill Doran
Bill is a prop and costume maker from Seattle. Bill and his wife Brittany run Punished Props academy, a YouTube channel and book series designed to...
Beverly Downen
Beverly of Downen Creative Studios is an award-winning, internationally published professional cosplayer, author and creator, crafting high-quality...
Natasha Dzurny
Hi, I'm Natasha. I’m a designer, tech-crafter, maker, and content creator. My work typically involves mashing up crafts, electronics, cosplay, and/...
Ben Eadie
Specialist in practical movie special effects and props design. With a background in aeronautical engineering Ben was recruited to work on Star Tre...
Gigi Edgley
Gigi Edgley is an Australian actress, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Chiana on the series Farscape and Lara Knight in Re...
Neo Edmund
Neo Edmund, child actor turned best-selling author, screenwriter, and comic book writer began his career in Hollywood appearing on numerous televis...
Breck Eisner
Breck Eisner has directed fourteen episodes from seasons two through seven of the Expanse. These include the first episode from each of these seaso...
Terry Fong
Terry Fong is the Deputy Rover Manager for NASA's VIPER lunar rover mission and NASA's Senior Scientist for Autonomous Systems. He is also Chief Ro...
Jesse Fusco
Jesse Fusco started at NASA Ames Research Center as an intern in 2006. He has a bachelors of science in Electrical Engineering from California Stat...
Andrew E.C. Gaska
Andrew E.C. Gaska is the multiple UKGE and Ennie Award-winning settings and adventure writer for Free League Publishing’s ALIEN Roleplaying Game. ...
David Gerrold
David Gerrold is the author of over 50 books, hundreds of articles and columns, and over a dozen television episodes. He is a classic sci-fi writer...
Simone Giertz
Simone Giertz (pronounced ‘yetch’) is a Swedish inventor and product designer known for creating unique solutions to everyday problems. She is also...
Karen Gillan
At age 16, Karen decided she wanted to pursue her acting career further and, studied under the renowned theatre director Scott Johnston at the Perf...
Summer Glau
Summer Lyn Glau is an American actress best known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy television series; as River Tam in Firefly (2002) an...
Mercedes Herreras Martinez
Mercedes Herreras Martinez is a space-systems engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center and currently the Risk Manager and Technical Interchange Lead...
The Hacksmith James Hobson
From fiction to reality, the Hacksmith brings superhero technology to life using a mix of engineering, MacGyver ingenuity and creativity in his ser...
Katy Jarvis
Dr. Katy Jarvis (Ph.D.) is a mathematician and computer engineer at NASA, Ames. She received her doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics from the Un...
Odd Jayy
Commonly known as Odd-Jayy, Jorvon Moss is an accomplished Maker best known for his Robotic Oddities. Jayy’s art background, BFA in Illustration, a...
Eric Jones
Eric Jones aka Coregeek made his first prop at nine years old. Years later, he obtained a degree in graphic design and honed his making skills with...
Steve Jurvetson
Stephen T. Jurvetson is an American businessman and venture capitalist. Formerly a partner of the firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), he was an ear...
Jonathan Knowles
An explorer, scientist, and technologist, Jonathan is focused on the dynamics of large-scale, long term change with an emphasis on beyond the horiz...
Javicia Leslie
American actress Javicia Leslie landed her first major role in the Lifetime film Swim at Your Own Risk (2016). Following, she appeared as a series...
Rachel Liftin
R. Litfin is the author of the hit YA Fantasy-Pop series, The Chronicles of Royal High. Having over a decade of cosplay experience, and being no st...
Kjell Lindgren
Kjell Norwood Lindgren (born January 23, 1973) is an American astronaut who was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. H...
Joe Livingstone
Joe Livingstone is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Itemfarm, a 3D printing startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he isn't hik...
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd is an American actor with a relatively long career. His better known roles include drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in th...
Angus Maclane
Angus MacLane is an American animator, storyboard artist, character designer, screenwriter, film director, and voice actor currently working at Pix...
Odin Makes
In 2017 Odin started his YouTube channel Odin Makes, a DIY series about making props for cosplay, or just for display. Episodes focus on novice to ...
Charles Martinet
Charles Martinet is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the Super Mario video game series. Martinet has voiced...
Props to History Michael Corrie
An Industry model maker, prop maker and sfx artists for the past 10 years. Michael is a film and prop historian, cosplayer, youtuber and tiktoker. ...
Dana Mortenson
Dana is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of World Savvy, a national education nonprofit working to educate and engage youth as responsibl...
Ryan Nagata
Ryan Nagata is an artist in Los Angeles. After several years of working in Hollywood as a director and prop and costume fabricator, he transitioned...
Ray Park
Ray Park is best known as Darth Maul from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the murderous, demon-like duelist with the double-bladed light...
Scott Pope
Scott Pope, award winning, master level costumer and fabricator, first dove in to fabrication in 1996. Practical effects, sculpting, casting, foams...
Alder Riley
Alder Riley is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Itemfarm, a 3D printing startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area. From his first 3D pri...
Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker has published about forty books, both pop science and SF novels in the cyberpunk and transreal styles. He received Philip K. Dick award...
Kayte Sabicer
Kayte Sabicer is a model maker and artist. She has worked in the film industry making miniatures for visual effects on movies like Inception, Hugo,...
Adam Savage
ADAM SAVAGE has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what's in his brain and make it real. He's built everything from ancient Bud...
Jen Schachter
Jen is an artist, maker, and mastermind of big collaborative builds. She has worked with Adam Savage and his team to build a set of giant light-up ...
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military scien...
Jess Sheeran
I create fun stuffed animals called Cool Critters. They can be plush monsters, extraterrestrial softies, unsettling couch companions, pet toys or b...
Ching-Ching Shiue
Ching-Ching Shiue is Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer of Itemfarm, a 3D printing startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A recognized biomi...
Jeremy Shorr
Jeremy Shorr is director of digital innovation and early learning for TIES. In that role he works with schools and districts around the world who a...
Steven K Smith
Steven K. Smith (aka SKS Props) is a professional fabricator, artist, and owner of SKS Prop and Costume Supply, which produces a line of high-densi...
Crafty Sorceress
Passionate about empowering people to craft, make and build, I'm an award-winning master-level cosplayer and professor. With 10+ years of cosplayin...
Steven Strait
Steven Strait is an American actor and singer. He is best known for starring in the adventure film Sky High (2005) and the science fiction series T...
George Takei
George Takei was born Hosato Takei on April 20, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. His mother was born in Sacramento to Japanese parents & his fa...
Evil Ted
Evil Ted worked in the movie industry doing visual effects, prop, and model making for 30 years. He worked on films and television shows such as Fi...
Joel Telling
Host of 3D Printing Nerd, always aiming to educate and entertain, all while having a lot of fun.
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett is an American movie director and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature des...
Bill Watters
Bill Watters is a child of the late 70s; he walked into a theater to watch Star Wars, and emerged to become a lifelong fan of cinema and television...
Gary Witta
Gary Whitta is the former Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer magazine and now an award-winning screenwriter and author whose films have grossed almost two...
Sophy Wong
Sophy Wong is a designer, costumer, and maker exploring the new frontier of artistic wearable technology. Using digital fabrication techniques like...