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Silicon Valley Comic Con 2016 Celebrity List


Alexandria the Red

BelleChere

BelleChere is a self-taught professional costume designer who has been passionately creating and modeling the costumes of her favorite pop culture ...

Derek Adam

Derek an experienced actor/stunt performer and precision/stunt driver for film and television. He owns Norcal Movie Cars which rents and provides ...

Peter Alau

Angelo Alcid

Despite his lifelong obsession with video games, Angelo Alcid somehow managed to put down his controller long enough to become a licensed Californi...

Mary Alexander

Mary Alexander is a librarian, archivist and editor from San Jose. She is an active member of the Bay Area steampunk community and loves local hist...

Dan Altmann

Jeff Annison

Ed Annunziata

Ed Annunziata has been a leader in the gaming industry for over 20 years, focused on video, computer, mobile and education games for children of al...

Matthew Arevalo

Haley Ashton

Actor with Ampersand Film Studios

Johnna Joy Ashton

Johnna Joy Ashton is a local director, actor, costumer and producer. She started an indie film company with her now husband, which recently release...

Kane Ashton

Kane Ashton is a local writer, director, actor, editor, and podcaster. He started an indie film company Ampersand Film Studios with his now wife Jo...

Sean Astin

Sean Patrick Astin is an American actor, director, voice artist, and producer best known for his film roles as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Ri...

Mark Badger

Mark Badger drew assorted superhero comics from Batman: Jazz and Run Riddler Run to Spiderman Online for AOL and Marvel, among others during the 80...

Madeline Baldwin

Madeline channels her nerdy background and involvement with fandom into her career in sports marketing for the NBA and Tough Mudder. Through her ow...

Roque Ballesteros

Roque is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning director with strong artistic vision. His focus on compelling art direction and story helps to bring t...

Franck Balson

Graduate from SUPINFOCOM in 2004, Franc BALSON begins his career at CUBE CREATIVE as a graphic designer. In 3 years, he was also 3D supervisor and ...

Trystan Bass

When she was five years old, Trystan loved to dress in tights and a trench coat to play Mrs. Peel from The Avengers. She’s been wearing funny cloth...

Lani Bassett

Sean Bassett

Sean Jr. Bassett

LaQuisha Beckum

As a nerd, geek, übergeek, LaQuisha has always loved movies, cartoons, comics, and anime. She believes in the power of geekdom and within the clas...

Riya Behl

Riya Behl is a senior at Pioneer High School. She was first introduced to the wonderful world of comics by her sophomore year English teacher. The ...

Beth Bemis

Beth Bemis is an actor and writer and avid fan of sci fi, fantasy, and all things Whedon in movies, TV, novels and graphic novels. She's also an a...

Greg Berkin

Gregory Berkin is a serial entrepreneur, software programmer and senior technology evangelist who founded the first educational software company fo...

Kerry Bishé

Kerry Bishé is a theatre, film and television actor. She can be seen in “Argo,” directed by Ben Affleck. She also appears in movies written and d...

Mike Bithell

Shotzi Blackheart

Long time Creepy KOFY Cave Girl and wrestler at Hoodslam.

Bret Blevins

Bret Blevins is an American comic book artist and Emmy-award winning animation storyboard artist. He is known for his work with Marvel's New Mutant...

Timothy Blevins

Timothy Blevins is Bret’s son and has collaborated with his father on a number of projects over the years. He has worked primarily in the music ind...

Lord Blood-Rah

David Boop

David Wayne Boop was born July 23, 1968 in Bridgeport, CT. He was adopted adopted by Mahlon and Peggy Boop, non-denominational Christian ministe...

Anna Brisbin

Vincent Brisebois

David Brooks

Kimberly Bryant

Bonnie Burton

Bonnie Burton is the bestselling author of “The Star Wars Craft Book” (Random House), “Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How W...

Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler is the Editor-in-Chief for Aggressive Comix, contributor to Ace Of Geeks, and founding member of Harkonnen Knife Fight. Lifelong g...

John Callison

John has been entered the cosplay world only recently but has already been featured by multiple media sources including MTV, IO9, NBC news etc. An ...

Christopher Cantwell

Christopher Cantwell was born in Chicago, but in the early ’80s his father moved the family to Dallas in order to pursue career opportunities in th...

Matthew "Novastar" Carauddo

Matthew brings over 20 years of experience in fencing, staged combat and martial arts to Silicon Valley Comic Con (Fencing, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Juji...

Jennifer Carson

Jennifer L. Carson is an editor of 35 years who has worked with such publishers as Simon and Schuster, John Wiley & Sons, and Jossey-Bass. She has ...

Chris Castagnetto

Chris Castagnetto, aka DJ Helsing, has been a professional in the video game and board game industry for over 10 years working at top gaming compan...

Eduardo Castrillo

Eduardo Castrillo is a writer, film director and co-founder of Uncia Films. After graduating from film school in 2014, Eduardo decided to start his...

Mario Cervantes

Actor with Ampersand Film Studios

Christopher Chamberlain

Chris creates the stunning graphic artwork surrounding Sunborn Rising. Chris is a seasoned veteran in the video game and art industries. He’s held ...

Cortney Chapman

Tipatat Chennavasin

Tipatat Chennavasin is an Investor in VR with the Venture Reality Fund. He has experience creating both interactive VR/AR and 360 video. He became ...

Alysa Cisneros

Alysa has been a professional political and community organizer for almost a decade, and is currently graduate student in Public Policy at Mills Co...

Steve Concotelli

For over 20 years, Steve has been making high impact television. During his career he has worked in every aspect of production, climbing his way up...

Stefano Corazza

Currently Sr. Principal Scientist in the Digital Imaging group at Adobe, Stefano Corazza leads a team that is integrating machine learning and 3D t...

Joe Costello

Joe Costello has spent a career in animation for television and gaming and knows a little too much about comics.

Julie Ann Crommett

Julie Ann Crommett joined Google in December 2013 and is currently the Program Manager, CS Education in Media, working to shift perceptions of comp...

Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis was born and raised in Vancouver, BC before attending McGill University in Montreal and then the Neighborhood Playhouse in New Yor...

Walter De Brouwer

Walter de Brouwer is the founder and CEO of Scanadu, a NASA Ames Research-based company with the mission of putting the diagnostic power of a hospi...

Laetitia de Cayeux

Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux is co-founder of Escape Dynamics, a technology company which has greatly advanced the state of the art in beamed energy...

Ariana de Souza

Ariana de Souza is a senior at Pioneer High School. Although her childhood has been filled with books and storytelling, she wasn’t exposed to comic...

Meg DeAngelis

Meg DeAngelis is a bright young YouTuber and actress who encourages her viewers to be confident in themselves, covering all things "girl empowering...

Balrok Del Cavo

Just a monster who loves movies, comics, ladies, music, and funny things.

Kelly Delcambre

Kelly Delcambre is a master cosplayer and has created some incredible costumes ranging from Optimus Prime to the Creeper. He currently works for Wo...

Shannon Denton

Texan. Comics writer, comics editor, comics artist, animation writer, storyboard artist, designer & 2011 Shel Dorf Editor-Of-The-Year.

Bree Despain

Bree Despain is the author of the Dark Divine trilogy and the upcoming Into The Dark trilogy. She has always loved writing because she has always l...

Matthew Diamond

Matthew Diamond has been an uber-fan all his life, and a comic book reader since age seven. He’s watched countless cartoons, films, and adaptation...

Alexander Hung Diep

A young nerd ahead of his time, Alexander Diep now extends his mighty influence at a local high school where he bemoans the passage of time and hig...

J.L. Doty

Jim is a full-time SF&F writer, scientist (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering), laser geek, and former running-dog-lackey for the bourgeois capitalist es...

Teresa Edgerton

Neo Edmund

NEO EDMUND (WGA-W) HAS WORKED IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AS A SCREENWRITER, STORY DEVELOPMENT EXEC, & A FILM / TV PRODUCER SCREENWRITING CRED...

Kate Edwards

Sergej C Eichmann

Rachid El Guerrab

Blair Erickson

Blair Erickson is a writer, director and creator whose work spans film, television, video games, interactive virtual worlds and online video experi...

Nate Etter

Mallory Everton

Mallory enjoys long distance running, music and pizza. She is a Portland native as demonstrated by her hippie-ish, grunge-loving hair. Mallory owes...

Maureen Fan

CEO and cofounder of Baobab Studios, the leading VR animation studio. She co-founded Baobab with Eric Darnell, who directed and wrote Madagascar a...

Norm Felchle

Josh Feldman

Josh directed and shot the sci-fi feature film Senn and has recently written a novella called ableYoung. He is the editor and cinematographer of th...

Maria Ferrari

Matt Fillbrandt

Nathan Fillion

"Nathan Fillion is a Canadian actor and voice actor best known for his role as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle, as well as his earlier port...

Zack Finfrock

Zack Finfrock moved to Los Angeles as a freelance artist and filmmaker in 2008, creating successfully crowdfunded webseries like "Fallout: Nuka Bre...

Brian Focarino

Brian is a trademark, copyright, and advertising associate at Cooley in Silicon Valley and a Fellow of the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. Previousl...

Steve Frankel

Steve Frankel was born at an early age. He’s been a fan forever -- since the early days of Spider-Man and Iron Man, and he read Lord of the Rings t...

Valerie Frankel

Best known as the author of How Game of Thrones Will End, Joss Whedon’s Names, Shadowhunters & Myths, and Adoring Outlander.

Valerie Estelle Frankel

Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of many books on pop culture, including Doctor Who – The What, Where, and How; We're Home: Fandom, Fun, and ...

Daryl Frazetti

Anthropologist interested in cultural themes of science fiction and comics. I teach at Western Nevada College and have offered themed classes in Sc...

Victoria Fung

M Todd Gallowglas

M Todd Gallowglas is a professional storyteller (like on a stage with a show in front of real people) and the author of the Tears of Rage, Hallowee...

Shaenon Garrity

"Shaenon K. Garrity has been making webcomics for almost two decades. She is best known as the creator of two long-running series: ""Skin Horse"" a...

Drew Gaska

Andrew E.C. Gaska is an author, digital artist, producer and art director. A franchise consultant for Twentieth Century Fox, he has also served as ...

Geoff Gay

An architect by day, Geoffrey Gay has spent his evenings and weekends pulling the levers at Midwick Armory, a small scale costume shop based out of...

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...

Nilou Ghazizadeh

Nancy Giovanni

Dane Glasgow

Dane Glasgow is a serial entrepreneur and senior technology executive who has built a number of successful businesses across entertainment, communi...

Jacqueline Goehner

Jacqueline Goehner is a long time cosplayer highly recognized for her Witchblade and Princess Zelda costumes. She has been cosplaying since 2005,...

Dave Goetsch

Jason Goldman-Hall

A life-long resident of San Jose, Jason Goldman-Hall spent 5 years in journalism after college before transitioning into full-time English teaching...

Jason Gray

Jason first delved into sketch comedy with a video called “Sean Connery’s 7 Tips For Dating For Fools” and has been hooked on it ever since. Puttin...

Mick Gray

Mike Grayson

Michael L. Grayson was born in January, 1988 in Oakland, CA. Acting first piqued his interest at age 6, seeing his older sister, Michelle Grayson, ...

Kevin Grazier

Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D. served as the Science Advisor for several television series and movies, including SyFy Channel series "Defiance," the TNT s...

Valerie Greene

Valerie Greene writers under the pen name Valerie Complex. She is a freelance writer, and professional nerd. She is passionate about diversity acro...

Amber Greenlee

Aside from creating the webcomic “No Stereotypes”, Amber Greenlee has also been a Disney princess, puppeteer, stand-up comedian, fine-art painter, ...

Delia Grenville

Judy Grivich

PJ Haarsma

Philip-Jon Haarsma, more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian born science fiction author best known for his creation of the Rings of Orbis ...

LJ Hachmeister

Author L.J. Hachmeister writes and fights. After winning the WEKAF world championship in double-stick fighting and achieving a second black belt in...

Francis Hamada

Freelance filmmaker and photographer. Has the most credits in films and TV, as an armorer or costumer since he is a technical consultant on milita...

Lisa Hansell

Lisa Hansell is Co-Producer and Makeup Supervisor on the award-winning web series, Star Trek Continues. She has been a professional makeup artist i...

Mohammed (Hawk) Haque

Miriam Hardin

Miriam has been sewing and costuming for 15 years and has made over 200 costumes. She likes touching every single fabric in the store every single ...

Kishore Hari

Kishore Hari is a science educator with more than a decade's experience producing live science events. He's the director of the Bay Area Science Fe...

Stacey Harkey

Despite lacking a charming southern accent, Stacey does not lack the values of hard work and southern hospitality. Stacey was the undefeated swimmi...

Tara Hernandez

Andrew Hessel

Andrew Hessel is a catalyst in biological technologies, helping industry, academics, and authorities better understand the changes happening in lif...

Steve Holland

Terry & Oliver Holler

Don Howe

Anders Hudson

Anders Scot Hudson has a long history as a technical director and visual effects artist. His work can be seen is several television and movie franc...

Alx James

Alx James is one of the most recognizable faces from Vine, boasting over 8 million followers and over 2.5 billion loops on the platform. His quick ...

Guha Jayachandran

Nichole Marie Jean

Ken Jennings

http://www.ken-jennings.com/about

Terry Johnson

Terry D. Johnson has a master's degree in chemical engineering from MIT and is currently an Associate Teaching Professor of bioengineering at UC Be...

Kaela Joseph

Kaela M Joseph, PhD: Kaela is a clinical psychology fellow who uses her love of sci-fi and horror fandoms to inform her clinical practice, resear...

David Kahn

David Kahn is Vice President of Product at JauntVR, which allows people to travel to virtual worlds. He previously held product leadership roles at...

Julie Kang

Julie is a software engineer, writer (for thenerdsofcolor.org), and mom. Her passions include diversity in tech, fuzzy animals, social justice, Doc...

Aykut Karaalioglu

Teri Karobonik

Shannon Kealey

Shannon Kealey is an accomplished musician, actor and singer/songwriter, and in her spare time she dabbles in science librarianship. She loves all ...

Katharine Kerr

Barbara Randall Kesel

Barbara Randall Kesel is a writer and editor of comic books; her bibliography includes work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Crossgen, Image Comics an...

Jenny Kim

Jenny Kim is a Special Education Teacher at Pioneer High School in San Jose, CA. Prior to her work in education, she also worked in the non-profit,...

Michael Klastorin

MICHAEL KLASTORIN has served as a production publicist on over 50 feature films, with credits including such diverse fare as Swamp Thing, Witness, ...

Jonathan Knowles

Jonathan Knowles serves as Autodesk's Explorer in residence. With a charter of exploring what’s next for Autodesk with a view into the 10 to 100 ye...

Karl Krantz

Kyle Kurpinski

Kyle Kurpinski holds a joint PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley/UCSF, and spends most of his time helping new technologies reach the market. He...

Wanda M. Kurtcu

I have participated in many local conventions as a speaker and moderator over the last 20 years. I was one of the writers for ST:TNG 'A Matter of H...

Anthony Larice

Anthony Larice is an actor and writer who has been working in the indie film world avidly, and is currently developing his web series' Help! I'm Al...

Melissa Laroue

A Marine and long time Cave Girl, a regular at bay area comic conventions.

Cary Lee

Cary is an artist and prop maker, and got got into costuming about 3 years ago. His first costume was the Halo ODST, "Mickey". After becoming a par...

Stan Lee

Jonathan Lemon

Jonathan Lemon is the creator of the strip “Rabbits against Magic”, which first appeared at gocomics.com and is now distributed by Universal Press ...

Janna Levin

Alex Lieu

Christopher Lloyd

Dana Loberg

Jason Loia

Benjamin Long

At 6'5, Benjamin Long is an actor that makes himself well known on screen as well as on set. Acting in film since a young child, appearing in films...

Cassie Long

Sarah Lorraine

Jim Louderback

Terri Lubaroff

Palmer Luckey

Jeff Lunzaga

DESCIPLE is a filmmaker from Oakland, CA specialized in the Action / Adventure / Fantasy categories. His indie movies have been featured in several...

Jonathan Maberry

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning suspense author, editor, comic book writer, magazine featu...

Natalie Madsen

Having never broken a bone as the second oldest of six kids, Natalie is officially invincible. Natalie came to Brigham Young University–where she s...

Shaun Maguire

Christy Marx

Christy Marx has had an eclectic career as a transmedia writer, TV and animation series developer, comics writer, game designer and narrative desig...

Chase Masterson

Morris May

May has been a special effects expert in the motion picture industry for more than 25 years, working on 30+ Hollywood films, including two Academy ...

Peyton Maynard-Koran

Peyton Maynard-Koran has worked on every aspect of Network Architecture, and has been a leader in new forms of access and large scale transport tec...

Andrew Mayne

He’s made ghosts appear on the screens of borrowed cell phones. He can shove his hand through a living human’s chest, seemingly breaking the skin y...

Patti McCarthy

Brian McClellan

Brian lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, two dogs, a cat, and between 6,000 and 60,000 honey bees (depending on the time of year). He began...

Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken is the technology editor for Fast Company, based in San Francisco. In past lives, he was editor at large for Time magazine, founder...

Matt Meese

Matt’s sketch comedy career began when he joined Brigham Young University’s Divine Comedy. It was there that he befriended Studio C cast members Ja...

Al Megas

Steve Meissener

Roxanna Meta

A member of Estrogen Force 3 and the GenderBent Justice League, Roxanna Meta has been cosplaying since 2007 and her work has been featured on Marve...

Stacy Meyn

In past lives, Stacy Meyn was a library clerk, A/V tech, music store manager, and DJ/producer. She webmavened during the dot.com boom (and bust), a...

Spiros Michalakis

Vlad Micu

Vic Mignogna

Vic has been acting for stage and screen since he was 8 years old. But his anime career started about fifteen years ago as Vega in Streetfighter II...

Tim Miller

Ian Milward

Ian comes from a background in biomechanical sciences with design and fabrication or prosthetic and orthotic devices. Four years ago he realized th...

Steve Molaro

Jamil Moledina

Phoenix Morgan

Kevin Murphy

Satoshi Nakajima

The chief architect of UI Evolution (http://www.uievolution.com). The chief architect of Microsoft Windows 95 and 98, IE 3/4. http://www.geekwire.c...

Mike Nelson

Mornings on KFOG/ travel channel goon/ Creepy Kofy Movie Time/ HGTV/ old skool pouser/ bad speller/ lame ass.

Nichelle Nichols

Nichelle Nichols began her professional singing and dancing career in her home town, Chicago, at the tender age of 14. As a teenager she was disco...

Daniel Noah

DANIEL NOAH (Writer/Producer) is a screenwriter, director and producer who has worked on a diverse array of film, television and theater projects s...

Michelle Nolan

Comics/pop culture historian, Love on the Racks, Ball Tales Michelle Nolan has been a journalist and comics/pop cultural historian for nearly 50 y...

Billy O'Brien

Director

Ben Otto

Jose Palacios

As an amateur fighter Jose won multiple Championship belts including a world title. He turned pro after earning a bronze medal at Wushu World Games...

Jenna Levine PeacockRose

Chuck Peil

As a founding member of Reel FX, Peil has participated in the studio’s significant growth over the past 22 years which now employs 315 team members...

Valerie Perez

Valerie Perez is known as comic book heroine Paula Peril in the official film series, as well as Wonder Woman for various YouTube channels includin...

Alec Peters

Alec Peters is an actor and producer, known for Prelude to Axanar (2014), Axanar (2016) and Loadout: Going in Hot (2014).

David Peterson

David began work on his first language in 2000 and has been creating languages ever since. He’s worked as a language creator on HBO’s Game of Thron...

Tilde Pier

Tilde is an HR wench turned software engineer at Pinterest, where she's currently on the partners team building analytics tools for businesses on t...

Mary Poffenroth

During her nearly nine years of teaching biology at San Jose State University, she has made innovation in science education and communication a pri...

John Pollio

John Paul is a working actor, model, and cosplay enthusiast that has had a passion for making his own costumes since way back in the 1st grade. Fue...

Teri Pope

"Teri started cosplaying about 5 years ago at the cajoling of a close friend that had recently come upon the hobby. After over 35 years of doing hi...

DesiRee Preston

Sarah Pugliaresi

Sarah Pugliaresi spends her days working as a Quality Engineer for a San Jose based wellness startup. By night, she is a fearless costume designer ...

Kit Quinn

Daniel W. Rasmus

Daniel W. Rasmus, is the Founder and Principal Analyst at Serious Insights. Rasmus uses scenarios to analyze uncertainties in society, technology, ...

Webberly Rattenkraft

Jeremy Renner

Bob Richards

Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards is a space entrepreneur and futurist. He is a Co-Founder of the International Space University, Singularity University, S...

Trina Robbins

Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over forty years. Her 2009 book, The Brink...

Rod Rodenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr., is the guardian of the Roddenberry legacy and champions its timeless and universal ideals to new generations throug...

Christopher Rogers

A Virginia native, Christopher C. Rogers began his career with the Atlantic Media Company (publisher of The Atlantic and National Journal) in Washi...

Derron Ross

Barbara Roth

Barbara Roth is a paramedic, registered Surgical Nurse, ER Nurse, and Director of the Aryana Health Care Foundation. She recently started cosplayin...

Roger Royse

Mark Ryan

Mark grew up in the great plains of the Midwest where he developed his love for music, science fiction, fantasy, theater, cinema, games and basical...

Robert Salkowitz

Nor Sanavongsay

Nor Sanavongsay is an award-winning Lao American illustrator and writer in the San Francisco Bay area and the founder of Sahtu Press. He has been a...

Adam Savage

Paul Scanlan

Martin Schubert

Martin Schubert creates Leap Motion-enabled VR experiences (Weightless, Geometric) that show the magic of using your hands to naturally and intuiti...

Anders Scot Hudson

Steven Sears

Steven L. Sears (Steve) was born the younger of two sons. His parents, Richard and Marian Sears, traveled frequently as Richard was a career soldie...

Kasey Shafsky

Kasey Shafsky is a producer, shooter, editor, and director. He is the UPM and a Co-Producer for the acclaimed web-series Star Trek Continues. A gra...

Apurva Shah

Apurva Shah joined Capital One in spring 2016 to bring over two decades of animation, visual effects, games and computer graphics experiences with ...

Steve Sharman

Liam Sharp

Liam Sharp made his debut in the late 1980s drawing Judge Dredd for 2000ad. He later designed and drew Marvel UK’s best-selling title ever, Death’...

William Shatner

Alex Sheikman

Jason Shiga

Jason Shiga is a cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work, such as in his groundbreakin...

Jared Shores

Jared Shores is a producer and director, known for Studio C (2012), Turning Point (2011) and The Story Trek (2011).

Lucas Siegel

Bill Sienkiewicz

Legendary artist and writer Bill Sienkiewicz is one of the greatest innovators in the history of sequential art. He has won every major comics awa...

Tallest Silver

David Simmons

Bruce Simon

Bruce Simon worked at Marvelmania in the late sixties where he met ack Kirby and became one of the legendary kids who hung out with Jack, took him ...

Rama Sivamani

Michael Smith

Martine Spaans

Curtis Spencer

Louisa Spring

John Stanley

Dave M. Strom

Dave M. Strom is a technical writer, comic book geek, and budding novelist and short story writer. His “The Terror of the Twisted Tonguester” short...

Kurt Stumbaugh

Kurt Stumbaugh is an indie filmmaker, camera operator, and technical consultant in the fields of Videography and Computer graphics. He worked at A...

Colin Sullivan

Renie Sweeney

Renie’s experience has spanned the software and publishing industries. She was previously a Vice President for a unit of Thomson Publishing, A Cons...

Kara Swisher

Parisa Tabriz

Parisa Tabriz has worked on computer security for over a decade and as the "Security Princess" of Google for the last 8+ years. She started as a "h...

Shawn Taylor

Shawn is a writer, storyteller, pop culture scholar, a college lecturer, and an alternative high school director. His areas of interest include: ra...

Strephon Taylor

Strephon Taylor is a producer and editor, known for Jack Pierce, the Maker of Monsters (2015), Uncle Forry's Ackermansions (2014) and Art Gods (201...

Astro Teller

Danielle Teller

Jason Thompson

If you are a tabletop gamer, you have probably seen some some of Jason Thompson’s large and intricately-detailed, official walkthrough-maps of clas...

Chantal Trazo

Chantal Trazo is a senior at Pioneer High School. She developed an interest in comics after her friends encouraged her to join their school's Comic...

Alan Tudyk

Appearing Saturday & Sunday

Alan Wray Tudyk is an American actor and voice artist known for his roles as Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the space western television series “Firefly...

Winner Twins

Brittany and Brianna, are national bestselling, multiple award-winning science fiction novelists, screenplay writers and producers. Their novels in...

Kendra Van Cleave

Anna Van Zuuk

Vanessa Vaughn

Rae Votta

Peter Wacks

Peter J. Wacks is a bestselling cross-genre writer and the managing editor WordFire Press. He has worked across the creative fields in gaming, tele...

Ariel Waldman

Ariel Waldman makes “massively multiplayer science”, instigating unusual collaborations that spark clever creations for science and space explorati...

Josh C. Waller

Raised on a cattle ranch on the Central Coast of California, JOSH C. WALLER (Director/Producer) was simultaneously weaned on theatre, character-dri...

Joe Walser

Joe Walser has decades of film production experience under his belt. In that time, he worked his way up the ranks of the Art Department to Producti...

Britton Watkins

Britton is the director of the upcoming feature documentary 'Conlanging.' He also consulted on the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness. In 2014 he co...

Rebecca Watson

Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets...

Bill Watters

Marcus Wei

Marcus married into cosplay. While he's not an expert costumer, he is quite knowledgeable on building impossible 3D structures from multiple sessio...

Andy Weir

ANDY WEIR was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is al...

Dan Wells

Dan Wells was born in 1977. His parents were avid readers and SF/Fantasy fans, and when he was six years old his dad read him The Hobbit. He has be...

Robison Wells

Robison Wells is the author of Blackout, Deadzone, Variant, Feedback, Dark Energy, and Airships of Camelot. Variant was a Publishers Weekly Best Bo...

Ryan Wells

Ryan Wells, from Portland OR, professional cosplayer and prop builder as well as a featured talent aboard cosplay cruises and a builder for the Mag...

Lisa Whalen

Chuck Whelon

Chuck Whelon is the creator of the long-running humorous fantasy webcomic, “Pewfell", and the host of the “Masters of Webcomics” Podcast. Launched ...

Tad Williams

Tad Williams is a former singer, shoe-seller, radio show host, and inventor of interactive SF TV turned New York Times and international bestsellin...

William Wisher

Writer, Producer, Actor, William Wisher Jr. has become a respected name within the Hollywood community. In 1984, William jumped into the public eye...

Ben Wolstenholme

Ben Wolstenholme’s passion for storytelling has led him to build two creative businesses; Moving Brands and Madefire. In 1998 Ben co-founded Mov...

Alice Wong

Alice is a researcher and disability advocate. She's the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, a community partner with StoryCorps collecti...

Nelson Wong

While contributing to thenerdsofcolor.org, Nelson is also the creator of AArisings, an online entertainment resource about Asian Americans and Paci...

Em Woods

Em Woods has been in several productions with Ampersand Film Studios, including the feature film John Hughes is a Lying Bastard, and the femme assa...

Bryan Worra

Bryan Thao Worra is a Lao American writer who hold over 20 awards for his writing and arts leadership including an NEA Fellowship in Literature. He...

Steve Wozniak

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s f...

A.J. Wu

Sewing, quilting, and costuming geek. Secret identity: bay area computer engineer.

Tom Wyrsch

Dani Yuan

Danielle Yuan has been in the prop-making community since 2009 when she was brought into the 405th Infantry during its inception, and has since ser...