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Roger Craig Smith and the cast of Sonic Frontiers at SacAnime Spring 2023

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SACANIME SPRING 2023 is being held Friday, Saturday and Sunday April 7th – 9th, 2023 at Roseville’s Roebellen Center (@thegrounds)

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ROGER CRAIG SMITH
It may sound cliché, but recovered stand-up comic and prolific voice actor Roger Craig Smith is, quite literally, a man of a thousand voices. He has narrated over 1,000 TV episodes for countless productions and has voiced thousands of retail TV/radio/online ads for some of the largest global brands in existence. He is trusted by nearly every studio, network, streaming service, broadcaster and game developer today with bringing to life the most iconic characters in entertainment. In just one animated series alone; Emmy award-winning Cartoon Network’s Regular Show, Roger voices over 170 characters. He has amassed a staggering list of credits over the course of his illustrious career.

Roger’s more notable acting credits include:

He’s the voice for “Claggor” in Netflix’s award-winning animated series Arcane. He’s voices “Trap Jaw” in Mattel’s He Man and the asters of the Universe.

With over 100 million players, Roger is known around the world by fans of Respawn’s Apex Legends, as the beloved voice of “Mirage.”

He voices “Batman” in the WB game Arkham Origins, the series Batman: Unlimited, along with voicing the Caped Crusader for the films Batman Ninja and Superman: Red Son.

With over 155 million copies sold globally and one of the highest-selling video game franchises of all time, Roger has the distinction of being the only actor to voice the protagonist across 3 games as “Ezio Auditore da Firenze” for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise.

Since 2010, he’s been the voice of “Sonic the Hedgehog” in every game, both Disney Wreck-It Ralph films, Cartoon Network’s animated series Sonic Boom, and for the official SEGA/Sonic the Hedgehog social media accounts (over 5 million followers).

Voices “Belson” and “Percy” in Cartoon Network’s Emmy award-nominated series Clarence. Narrator for TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress for 14 seasons.

He’s the voice of antagonist “Ripslinger” in Disney’s Planes.

Voices Marvel’s iconic hero “Captain America” in Disney’s animated series Avengers Assemble, as well as in LEGO video games.

He voices “Chris Redfield” in Capcom’s Resident Evil games.

With millions of viewers per episode, Roger helps bring the hype as the live announcer for NBC’s dance competition show World of Dance.

Roger voices titular character “Mouse” for Amazon’s family-friendly, Emmy-nominated series If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and he voices the lovable “Moose,” as well.

Dreamworks calls on Roger’s impressive vocal range and character development skills as the the voices of “Brock,” “Cousin Ashley,” and “Mayor Fowler” in Tony Hale’s hit series Archibald’s Next Big Thing (fun trivia—Tony Hale voiced “The Joker” opposite Roger’s “Batman” in Batman Ninja).

Anime fans will know Roger as the voice of “Deidara” from the worldwide hit Naruto and “Shinji Hirako” in Bleach.

For over a decade, Roger was the voice of Los Angeles’ #1 alternative rock station, the world famous KROQ 106.7FM.

Always priding himself on being a valuable “utility player” for any production, Roger’s been called upon to provide numerous characters for various hit shows including Disney’s Owl House, Disney’s Big City Greens, Disney’s Amphibia, Dreamworks’ Harvey Street Girls, Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, just to name a few.

Raised in Orange County, CA and voted “Class Clown” in 8th grade, he eventually focused his silliness toward training in musical theater. He spoke at both his 8th and 12th grade graduations, was elected freshman class president in high school, and hosted a live local TV talk show while earning his B.A. in Screenwriting from Chapman University…all while pursuing a career in stand-up comedy. After working as a comic for 5 years, he left stand-up to pursue voice acting full-time in 2005.

Roger knows he’s got fans of all ages on social media and that as a notable voice for myriad characters, he represents much more than just himself—so he keeps his posts apolitical and rated PG. He’s currently learning ASL (American Sign Language) and as a resident of Boise, Idaho, enjoys getting outdoors as often as possible to pursue his passion for nature, wildlife photography, hiking/backpacking, mountain biking, and nightscape/astrophotography…all of which he shares regularly with his followers on Instagram and Twitter. (@rogercraigsmith).

COLLEEN O’SHAUGHNESSEY
Colleen O’Shaughnessey is a voice actor who can be heard on numerous animated series & features, video games, commercials and toys. She is best known for her roles as Tails on Sonic Boom, Wasp on Avengers – Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Jazz on Danny Phantom, and Sora on Digimon & Digimon Adventure Tri. She was thrilled to join the cast of the Sonic the Hedgehog Movie as Tails which was released earlier this year.

Other noted roles are Pickles on Doc McStuffins, Mom on If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Ino & Konohamaru on Naruto, ChoCho on Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Kelsey/Glitter Sunny on the Glitter Force, Anna from K Return of Kings, and Nel on Bleach. Some features include Storks, Monsters University, Toy Story 3, Horton Hears a Who, Ponyo, Spirited Away & Cars. She is the female Asura from Guild Wars 2, Kronya from Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Alicia from Valkyrie Chronicles, Kos Mos from Xenosaga, multiple characters on Hitman, Southpark-Stick of Truth & The Fractured but Whole, Final Fantasy VII & X111, Fallout 4, and many more games.

She has lent her voice to commercials for Dish, Brita, McDonald’s, Lexus, Yahoo! & Whole Foods, to name a few.

Follow Colleen on Twitter – @VOColleen and Instagram – @colleenoshaughnessey

RYAN BARTLEY
Actor Ryan Bartley has been working in theater, film, television, and radio since she was a child. After attending the prestigious theater program at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, located in Dallas, Texas, Ryan graduated early and relocated from Dallas to Los Angeles. There she began working in anime, video games, and animation. Her anime credits include the 2019 Dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion (Rei Ayanami), Re:ZERO (Ram), Beyblade Burst Surge (Hyuga Hizashi), Demon Slayer (Makomo, Hanako, and Young Rengoku), Inuyasha sequel Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Takechiyo), Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (Yuna), Jujutsu Kaisen (Shoko Ieri), Magia Record (Sana Futaba),The Promised Neverland (Gilda), Carole & Tuesday (Angela), Hunter x Hunter (Komugi), Mob Psycho 100 (Tsubomi and Mukai), Erased (Osamu), KonoSuba (Chomusuke), JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Anne), Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (Dita), and Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (KITSAT-1). Ryan is the English voice of Peony and Ilyana in Fire Emblem Heroes and Plachta in the Atelier video game franchise.

She’s also provided additional voices for some of the top performing recent feature films including The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, UglyDolls, The Boss Baby, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,

X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Avengers: Infinity War, Bumblebee, and Love, Simon. Ryan is the voice of Jay the blue jay in the Netflix original animated series Treehouse Detectives, the voice of Young Zeta on Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine, the voice of Pupkin Cake and Bunny Bow in the Shopkins franchise, the voice of Pammee the fennec fox in the Netflix original series Yoohoo To The Rescue, the voice of Fluff the rabbit kwami in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, the voice of Pompompurin in the brand new Sanrio animated series Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures and her on-camera work includes the Lifetime movie Queen Sized, the horror-comedy Halloweed, and the award-winning digital series L.A. Macabre, available now on Amazon Prime. Ryan is a graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts with a major in

Cinema-Television Critical Studies and a minor in Screenwriting.

MIKE POLLOCK
Mike Pollock is one of New York’s premier animation voice-over actors. Saturday morning cartoon viewers of Cartoon Network might recognize him as the voice of Dr. Eggman in Sonic Boom, and the Sonic the Hedgehog video games. Old-school viewers of FOX and The CW might recognize his voice as Meat in Ultimate Muscle:The Kinnikuman Legacy, the Mayor and Samo, the bartender, in Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, Garbageman on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dr. Eggman and Ella on Sonic X, Bigoriki in Gogoriki, and Langston Lickatoad in Viva Piñata. He’s also been heard as Bonaparte in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX on Cartoon Network, the interim narrator in Pokémon, Beast in the Marvel Motion comic adaptation of Astonishing X-Men, and Adon in Berserk. Listen for him in several upcoming projects this year. Mike was also Sir Hardin Thicke on Howard Stern’s Master Tape Theater on Sirius XM Radio, as well as radio, TV and online commercials for Hooters, Pepsi, Focus Factor, SunSetter Retractable Awnings, No-Doz, Comcast, Burger King, AC/DC, Verizon, and promos for HBO International. He’s also the voice of several cute and cuddly animated plush toys, including “The Menacing Mummy,” for GUND. When he’s not making funny voices, he also writes comedy bits and song parodies. Please visit his web site: http://www.itsamike.com

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GUESTS
CHARLES MARTINET
Charles Martinet is an American actor, best known for voicing Mario in the Super Mario video game series. Martinet has voiced this title character of Nintendo’s flagship video game franchise since 1991, and also voices Luigi, Wario, WaLuigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi, among others. Charles also voiced Magenta in the newly released animated film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and the dragon Paarthurnax in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video game. Charles holds a Guinness Book of World Record for most video games as a character — Mario. We think that number is close to 160. And hopefully we will hear of him in the Dragon Ball franchise….
TARA STRONG
Tara Strong began acting in Toronto at thirteen. Her first animated role was the voice of “HELLO KITTY.” Soon she had a lead in a sit-com, voiced over twenty animated series, and several theater, TV and film roles. Moving to LA in 1994, booking PARTY OF FIVE, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S SENIOR TRIP, SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH, and more. She has an iconic voice over career including: Bubbles in “THE POWER PUFF GIRLS,” Timmy in “THE FAIRLY ODD PARENTS,” Dil in “RUGRATS,” Raven in “TEEN TITANS,” “BATGIRL,” “FAMILY GUY,” “DRAWN TOGETHER,” “BEN 10,” Melody in “THE LITTLE MERMAID 2,” “SPIRITED AWAY,” etc. She is Miss Collins on NICKELODEON’S “BIG TIME RUSH” and the new voice of “HARLEY QUINN.” She is Emmy nominated, a SHORTY AWARD winner and of course Twilight Sparkle in “MY LITTLE PONY.”

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